
118 The West American Scientist. 
by the advocates of the fabulous “‘Atlantis,’’ but to a bygone ex- 
tension of land between East Asia and West America. 
Taking Dr. Hamilton’s catalogue more in detail, we notice the 
general resemblance of the list to the whole Coleopterous fauna 
of an oceanic island. The Staphvlinidoe are remarkably numer- 
ous, and the Carabidce very well represented, but the Curculioni- 
doce and Chrysomelidce are much less numerous than might have 
been expected. Additional localities might be given for many of 
the species, as for instance, the present writer has taken the fol- 
fowing species in Colorado which are not recorded from that 
State in the catalogue; Necrophorus vespilloides, Dermestes lar- 
darius var. signatus, Meligethes brassicce, Chalcophora virginien- 
sis, Eros aurora, Aphodius granarius, A. lividus and Hylotrupes 
bajulus. It seems almost impossible that such species as Apho- 
dius granarius, A. lividus and Hylotrupes bajulus can have 
been imported into America by human agency as suggested 
in the catalogue. Many species were supposed to have been 
imported by the older authors who imagined that quite 
identical forms did not occur naturally in both hemispheres, but 
the evidence of importation is often quite wanting. In certain 
cases the fact of a common eastern species not having yet crossed 
the great plains east of the Rockies, is strongly in favor of the 
view that its advent into America was a recent one (taken in con- 
junction with its occurrence in Europe), but in the present in- 
stances this is not the case. IRE BNO BE 
EDITORIAL. 
From June to September the residents ot Southern California 
almost unanimously decide that they “need a change of air,’’ and 
all who can,spend trom one to eight weeks away from their city 
or suburban homes, indulging themselves in the luxury of camp- 
ing out in the woods. Some choose one locality, some another, 
but all seek more or less isolation though rarely with success. 
Such gay parties ot old and young are usually equipped with a mul- 
titude of “ necessities” which often prove more troublesome than 
useful. The editor formed one of these annual parties and can 
speak from a long experience of similar excursions, and we are 
tempted to parody some well-known lines after this fashion: 
The woods were full of campers out, 
And maidens red as deer, 
two lines is considered sufficient of this style of literature. 
e young lady was found so wicked as to repeat something like 
following: 
‘¢ Teachers to right of them, 
Teachers to left of them, 
Teachers in front of them, 
Ordered and hungered,’’ etc 
