LORQUINIA 
INSECT COLLECTING IN THE SAN BERNARDINO RANGE 
Of all the good collecting places for insects in or near the city of 
lyOS Angeles, the best, to my mind, is the San Bernardino range of 
mountains, which is the most conspicuous feature of San Bernardino 
county. I had the pleasure to spend the first two weeks of July in one 
of the camps of that range at an altitude of 4500 feet. 
The soft, balmy air, the running clear streams, the numerous 
trees and bushes, the grass and flowers, together with the absence of 
any of man's work all combine to make those mountains a paradise for 
insects. Wherever you go or whatever you do, you are always made 
aware of the thousands of small creatures, either by their song or by 
their presence. Not having yet classified the insects I caught there 
I must satisfy myself by giving the popular names, or as well as I can, 
a few generalized Latin names. 
Beetles form the majority of species there. I observed many species 
of June beetles, the giant wood borers, together with many other 
Cerambycidae, a few tiger beetles, (Cicindelidae) , water beetles, both 
predacious and scavenger, rove beetles, click beetles (Elateridae) , fire- 
flies and many kinds of Scarabaeid beetles. There were many butter- 
flies, with the Buck-eyes and Lorquin's Admirals leading for numbers. 
Of the two winged flies there were only too many mosquitos, black 
flies, big robber flies, bee flies, flower flies and the ever present muscids. 
There were many kinds of locusts and grasshoppers, many of 
which were very pretty. I also got one immature mantid. Stone flies 
were common, and you could see hundreds of empty larval skins on 
the stones near the water. Ant lions, lace wings, Raphidiae or rubber- 
necks. May flies and different species of dragon flies w^ere present, while 
in the evening the air was full of flying termites. 
The true bugs were well represented, the songs of the cicadas being 
a real comfort in the middle of the soundless solitudes. 
Finally, the number of Hymenoptera was very great. I observed 
about fifteen species of wasps, both the true wasps and the digger 
wasps. Ants of many kinds ran here and there, and many species of 
both solitary and social bees were seen and taken. 
The collecting trip was thus a very fruitful one in this grand and 
truly wide range that the writer would recommend to all insect lovers. 
RAOUL M. MAY, 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
