n8 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 Staphvlinidoeare remarkably numer- 

 ous, and the Carabidce very well represented, but the Curculioni- 

 dce 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. T. D . A. C. 



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 areusually equipped with amul- 

 titude of u 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, 

 le 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., 



