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the microscope are especially worthy of commendation. A 

 short stroll around the outskirts of the town yielded Thrypti- 

 ciis fraterciiJus, Chrysomym demandata, Asemosyrphus mex- 

 icanns, Madisa (Desmometopa) haJteralis and some commoner 

 things. 



The next day I returned eastward to Wadsworth and took 

 the stage 20 miles north to the Nevada Indian School, where 

 the superintendent, Mr. J. D. Oliver, provided me with accom- 

 modations and I remained four days. The trip in was highly 

 interesting to me, as I discovered a really garrulous Indian in 

 the driver "Fat Joe," and we struck up a warm friendship. 

 The school is four miles from Pyramid Lake and eight from 

 Winnemucca Lake, both of which I visited. They are mod- 

 erately alkaline, but contain large quantities of fish. There 

 is a more alkaline pond a mile south of Pyramid Lake, but 

 it was difficult to reach, as it was on the other side of the 

 Truckee River and the water was high ; so I did not visit it. 

 The bottoms of the Truckee River are verdant in this desert 

 region and ofifer some good insects. The shore of Pyramid 

 yielded a few Lispas of an undescribed species, as well as 

 Ephydra hians; at Winnemucca I found still another unde- 

 scribed Lispa with several common species of the genus. 

 Among the Diptera collected on my trips to and from the 

 lakes and about the Indian school were Chrysops discalis and 

 coloradensis, Tabanus opacus, Exoprosopa cremita, Anthrax 

 agrippina, nugator, lepidota, Ceria tridcns, Tachyn-echus an- 

 gustipennis, Thrypticiis fratercnlus, Hydrophonis gratiosus 

 and philombi'itis, G corny za frontalis, Rhicnoessa albiila, Ur ci- 

 lia abstcrsa and Cacnia bisctosa. 



On July 19 I returned to Wadsworth and took the train 

 to Hazen. where I took the Goldfield train next morning to 

 the little freighting station of Thorne. close to the south end 

 of Walker Lake. An automobile conveys the passengers seven 

 miles across a very sandy desert to the county seat town of 

 Hawthorne, occupying a little oasis less than half a mile 

 square. After dinner another auto stage runs before supper- 

 time to Bodie, California, climbing over the \\'alker Lake 

 mountain range, crossing a valley and ascending almost ex- 

 actly to the summit of the next range, Bodie having an ele- 



