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a single specimen "taken on the east shore of Virginia," while Prof. S. A. 

 Forbes, in 16th Report of the State Entomologist of Illinois, p. 50, gives 

 what seems to be incontrovertible proof that the insect was abundant in 

 Illinois, within a few miles of New Harmony, as early as 1S23. Therefore 

 it does not seem improbable that Simulia may not have occurred in the 

 Lower Wabash, and the Little Wabash, in Illinois, even before Say's resi- 

 dence at New Harmony, though, in attempting to secure proof of this I 

 have been less fortunate than Prof. Forbes, as none of the oldest inhabi- 

 tants about New Harmony can remember of the occurrence of buffalo 

 gnats, except during recent years. 



At the field meeting of the Academy, at Richmond, Indiana, May 12, 

 1S92, we found another location for these insects, in Indiana, this being at 

 at Elkhorn Falls, situated five miles below the city. The larv?e, which ap- 

 pear to be different from any I have collected elsewhere, were found cling- 

 ing to the rock and also to the algse which overhangs the falls. No adults 

 were found at the time, and but few puppe. 



The development of the vivd'arous fishes of California. By Cari. H. 



ElGENMANN. 



Recent additions to the ichthyological fauna of California. By Carl 

 H. Eigenmann and Rosa S. Eigenmann. Published in part in Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1892 and in part in the Annals New York Acad. 

 Sci. for 1892. 



[austract.J 



We have prepared an enumeration of the fishes occurring on the Pacific 

 coast of America, north of Cerros island, and to the depth of 150 fathoms. 

 The explorations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, during 

 the last three years, have added a large number of species to those previ- 

 ously known from this region, and our own explorations have added about 

 as many new forms from San Diego alone as were discovered by the Alba- 

 tross along the whole coast included in the present paper. These additions, 



