orm:i; TKUTIAKY INSKCT LOCAUTIKS. 39 



HorSi Creek, .Wyoming. At a point three miles south of this creek, 

 which empties into the (ireen River i'roiii the west near its source, and 

 about t\vo miles west of ( iiveii River, a thin, hard lnver of white limestone 

 \\as found hy lh: A. ( '. IVale covered with petrified larval cases of caddis- 

 tlie.s, \vhich are described In-low under the name of Indicia calculosa. 



(Jut *>!</, Uriti*/! < 'ii/iuiili/ii. The discoverv (if the different localities for 

 fossil insects in ISritish Columbia liy the ( ieolo^ical Survey of Canada has 

 l)een due entirely to the investigations of Dr. George M. Dawson. On the 

 left liank of the Fraser River, at the town of (Jitesnel, he discovered a series 

 nt days, >ands, and gravels, their upturned edges covered by the valley 

 deposits, in one of which series (a stratum of lire-da v ei^lit or nine inches 

 thick i ius.-cts and plants were found, the lieds being exposed on the river 

 hank at a low stage "f the water. Nearlv tweiitv species of plants were 

 met with, mostly of apetalous t'amilies in the neighborhood of the ( 'npuli- 

 t'era-, Mich as the beech, walnut, oak, birch, and poplar, and a considerable 

 number ot insects. Such of these as are included in the present report con- 

 sist of twenty-live species, nearly all 1 1 viueiioptera and Diptera, and espe- 

 cially the latter, and, what is verv unusual, onlv a single beetle. Sir Will- 

 iam l>a\\soii, who determined the plants, iv-arded them as to a great 

 extent identical with those from the Miocene of Alaska, but adds: 



' \Vlietller the ag6 of these beds is Miocene or so|ue\\h;il oilier !lia\, llOW- 



ever, admii of doubt." Apart from an uncharacteristic egg-cocoon of a 

 spider, none of the insect remains can be regarded as identical with auv 

 found elsewhere. 



.\/,/,i. \m-/li Simi//;<niirci/, <n/t/ \i/t> Mile Crr,'/,-, //////'.,// <'<i/itnil>i<t. The 

 other localities at which remains of insects have been found, though in 

 smaller nmnbeis, lie at no great distance apart to the south of (^uesiiel and 

 south of the Canadian Pacific Railway, near our own border. One of 

 these localities is upon the Xicola River, two miles above its junction with 

 the Coldwater, at the base of a series of beds containing coal. Another is 

 on the North Fork of the Similkameen l\iver, three miles from its mouth; 

 the beils here, on the bank of the river, "include a. laver of lignite' about a 

 foot thick, which rests in black, rather earthy, carbonaceous clavs, and is 

 overlain by fifteen feet or more of very thinlv bedded almost paper-like yel- 

 low gray siliceous shales," which contain plants and insects. The third is on 

 Nine Mile Creek, flowing into Whipsaw Creek, a tributary of the Similka- 



