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from Lorquin the younger, who got his material badly mixed, and 

 a lot of trouble was caused in that way. O. T. Baron* did a good 

 amount of work in Mendocino and Fresno counties, the species 

 being described by W. H. Edwards, Henry Edwards, and others ; 

 he returned to Germany about 1890. Xantus de Veseyt in the 

 seventies did considerable collecting at Ft. Tejon and in Baja 

 California, the Lepidoptera going to Dr. Behr; Leconte published 

 a list of the Coleoptera collected by him at Ft. Tejon. Lord Wal- 

 singham in 1871-1872 made an extended trip through the whole 

 length of the State, collecting Microlepidoptera ; he published a 

 fine illustrated work on the Pterophoridae of California and Ore- 

 gon; he is still living and working in England (where he is hon- 

 orary curator of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum). 



Other important collectors during the period were: Dr. Geo. 

 H. Horn, Baron Terloot de Popelaire,^ A. J. Grayson, T. L. 

 Mead,§ Samuel Brennan, Jr., Baron R. von Osten Sacken, James 

 Behrens, J. J. Rivers, W. G. Wright,l| Charles Fuchs, Colonel 

 Thomas L. Casey. By the end of the eighties we notice that most 

 of the older students had finished their work, and many also were 

 leaving the State; during this period also the Lepidoptera was the 

 order which received most attention, while after 1890 has been the 

 period of the Coleoptera. Stanford University had just opened 

 and the University of California began a more vigorous growth, 

 and science centered more around these universities than in the 

 preceding periods, when the California Academy of Sciences was 

 the center of work. 



* Ainblychila baroiii, now a super, rather than a subspecies, records his 

 greatest claim to fame. 



t John Xantus was living in Kansas when Leconte first met him, about 

 1852. In his later home near Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, he 

 devoted his leisure wholly to beetles. He entertained Crotch and was 

 greatly revered by both Leconte and Horn. 



t This visitor is represented by name in both beetles and butterflies. 



§ Mr. Mead has ten Lepidoptera named for him. 



H Very few collectors are without specimens taken by this diligent worker 

 whose death occurred less than two years ago. His " Butterflies of the 

 Pacific Coast " is a classic. Nevertheless he may be remembered longest 

 in science by the anomalous Dinapate wrightii, which he discovered and 

 sent to Dr. Horn. 



