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his box was Chlaenius purpuricolHs from Rockaway, Tythonyx crythoce- 

 phalus from Wading River, Onthophagus cribricoUis Yaphank, Dialytes 

 trimcatus Wyandanch. 



Mr. Dury related tales of collector's experiences in Arizona and New 

 Mexico. One man struck the dry season. The best he could get were a 

 few Trox and Dermestes from some cow skin. Another arrived during 

 the rainy season and reported that the way to take specimens was by 

 scoop shovel to be measured by the quart. Mr. Davis had done his usual 

 careful systematic work over Long Island. Among the mass of records 

 stand out Dichromorpha hrunnca Scudder, a southern thing, and Coccinclla 

 transversoguttata. Of this northern species three were taken, one at 

 Wading River, May 30, on the shore, by Olsen ; one inland at Deep Pond, 

 Wajiing River by Davis; and one at Orientjj^^Roy Latham. It would 

 appear that the species is well established on 'Be eastern end of the island. 

 None has been so far reported from the western end, none from Staten 

 Island or New Jersey. R. P. Dow, Secy. 



Los Angeles, now the largest city in California, is not to be 

 behind any in Museum work. Last July it opened its Southwest 

 Museum, free to the public every day. The Museum occupies a 

 17-acre site at Marmion Way and Avenue 46 with a frontage of 

 200 feet. The initial cost was $165,000. The first appropriation 

 for collections was $250,000. Its concrete Hispano-American 

 building commands a view of sixty miles of the Sierra Madre 

 Mountains. A feature is the Caracol Tower 42 feet square and 

 125 feet high, around the spiral staircase of which open ten stories 

 of rooms. The entomological department is on the top floor with 

 Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., as curator. It has the support of an Ento- 

 mological Club, the Biological section of the Academy of Sciences, 

 and two organizations of young naturalists, the Lorquin Natural 

 History Cltib and the Rivers Natural History Club. The two 

 last organizations meet monthly and have as members the younger 

 element, by whom collections are enthusiastically being made. 

 Lepidopterists so far are in the majority. All purpose combining 

 in building up a local collection of insects. 



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