LORQUINIA 
5 
No one understands or realizes the importance of the law of evo- 
lution better than the naturalist, and we can apply the same law to 
the growth and development of our club, as we see it has been applied 
b}- nature herself in the development of ail life. But let this evolution 
be always in advance and never a retrograde, as has been the case in 
some types of animal life, as, for example, some of the marine mam- 
mals who have forsaken the land and taken to deep water, thereby 
descending in the scale of life. Our development can be ever in ad- 
vance, continually bringing forth new ideals and striving to attain 
them. 
BUTTERFLY RECORDS 
On June 27, 1916, on a trip up to Alpine Tavern, Mt. Lowe, by 
way of the Sunset trail, and along the ridge to the eastward and back by 
way of Camp Sierra, I saw or took the following butterflies and moths : 
Thecla spadix (rare and local), Thecla saepium (fresh) Thecla 
grunus (just out and common around the golden oaks), Thecla dryope 
or californica, Lycaena enoptes, acmon marina, Melitaea chalcedon (com- 
mon), and wrightu (rare), Papilio eurymedon (on a peak, as is the 
usual thing for this butterfly), Heterochroa californica (around the golden 
oaks), Thanaos Sp., and the nice little noctuid moth Stylopoda anxia, 
Argyunis semiramis, L^caema, piasus and T^amphila nemorum. 
Thecla halesus, Hubner — Fred King took a specimen in the Highland 
Park hills last spring, and on July nth, on a trip with Alonzo Davis 
in the upper Arroyo Seco Canyon, a specimen was found among some 
boulders, just emerged and beautifully fresh. This beautiful butterfl)^ 
has been taken rarely at several localities in Southern California and 
seems to be uncommon. 
Arg^nneis callippe (Boisduval) — Fred King has taken this the past 
two seasons in the Highland Park hills. 
FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 
