70 REPORT OF NATIONAL .MUSEUM, 1892. 



Mr. P. L. Jouy collected for the National Museum some valuable 

 reptiles, a full report upon which will be found in the accession list, 

 Section v. 



Mr. George P. Merrill, U. S. National Museum, presented specimens 

 of Asida sordida, bee. the only insect found on the plains about Canon 

 Diablo. 



Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, 0". S. Bureau of Ethnology, presented speci- 

 mens of calcite pseudomorph after glauberite. 



Dr. Timothy E. Wilcox, U. S. Army, transmitted a valuable and 

 interesting- collection of reptiles and a living specimen of horned 

 toad. 



Arkansas. — Dr. W. P. Jenney, U. S. Geological Survey, transmitted 

 two specimens of cadmaniferous smithsonite from Morning Star Mine, 

 Marion County, and specimens of ores. 



California. — From the Department of Agriculture was received a col- 

 lection of fresh -water shells from Death Valley. 



From the Department of Agriculture, through Prof. C. V. Riley, 

 entomologist, were received specimens of Californian orthoptera, col- 

 lected by D. W. Coquilletj specimens representing species of rare 

 coleoptera, collected by D. W. Coquillet in San Diego and Los Angeles 

 counties; specimens of Californian coleoptera, lepidoptera, hymen- 

 optera, hemoptera, and diptera, also collected by Mr. Coquillet, and 

 specimens of insects collected by Mr. A. Koebele, of the Death Valley 

 Expedition. 



Mr. L. Belding, Stockton, presented birds' skins, and the head, wing, 

 and foot of a blue goose, Chen cmrulescens. 



The Hon. W. W. Bowers, House of Representatives, presented a 

 block of pure pig-iron, and a specimen of tin ore from the Temescal 

 Tin Mine, South Riverside, San Bernardino County. 



Prom the Fish Commission, through Col. McDonald, commissioner, 

 was transmitted the skin of a coast fox, Orocyon virginianus littoralis 

 from Santa Rosa Island, collected by Mr. Charles Townsend, of the 

 Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 



Mr. L. L. Frost, Susanville, presented a collection of archaeological 

 objects, and a polished stone object supposed to be a charm-stone. 



Maj. J. W. Powell, director of the U. S. Geological Survey, transferred 

 to the Museum 34 specimens of radiated brown tourmaline from Colfax, 

 Nevada County, collected by Mr. W. Lindgren. 



Dr. W. P. Jenney, C. S. Geological Survey, presented a specimen of 

 rubellite. 



Miss Annie B. Richer, Pasadena, presented photographs of Padre 

 Serra, a Mexican drawn-work maker; Father Serra's stirrup (Indian 

 wood-carving), and a piece of drawn-work showing the " Little Jesus" 

 stitch. 



Lieut. Charles Pond, U. S. Navy, Mare Island, sent a sphinx-moth 

 (Smerinthus opthalmicus Bd.). 



