334 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



any point in the valley of San Jose. Zeledon and Alfaro mention 

 this locality. (Designated by some authors as Las Anonas. ) 



Aserri : — One of the oldest villages in Costa Rica, situated south 

 of San Jose, in the same valley, about seven miles distant. Entirely 

 surrounded by coffee-plantations and cultivated lands. 



Atenas : — A town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants on the 

 Ferrocarril al Pacifico at an altitude of about 2,300 feet. It is on 

 the cart-road between Alajuela and San Mateo, and situated in the 

 midst of cultivated lands. Rarely mentioned by collectors. 



Atirro : — A small village situated on the banks of a stream of the 

 same name near the point where it empties into the Rio Reventazon. 

 It is nearly opposite, and only about four miles distant from the 

 station of Turrialba on the railroad. Conditions much the same as at 

 Angostura and Tuis. The locality is not often mentioned. 



Avangares (Las Juntas de) : — A village situated on the shores of 

 the Gulf of Nicoya on the mainland opposite the Island of Chira. 

 Mentioned only by Mr. Lankester, I believe. 



Azahar de Cartago : — Four or five miles from Cartago to the south- 

 west, in the Candelaria Mountains, and having an altitude of about 

 5,000 to 7,000 feet. 



Bagdces : — A squalid village in Guanacaste, on the Rio de las 

 Piedras, a branch of the Rio Bebedero, flowing into the Tempisque. 

 It is only a little above sea-level, is very hot, and surrounded by 

 " Sabanas, " marshy lagoons, and some woodland. 



Bahia de Salinas : — A small bay on the Pacific coast just at the 

 entrance to the Gulf of Nicoya and about twelve miles southeast of 

 Puntarenas. 



Balsa (Valsa ; La Valsa): — A point at the head of the San Carlos 

 River, probably only named from the river, which forms one of the 

 small tributaries of the San Carlos. This locality seems to have been 

 visited only by Carmiol, there being skins in the United States 

 National Museum as well as in the British Museum collected by him 

 and bearing the name of this locality. 



Banana, Rio: — A fairly large river which rises in the Chirripo 

 Mountains and empties into the Caribbean Sea about four miles south 

 of Port Limon. The level land along both banks has been cleared of 

 forest and planted with bananas. 



Barba, Volcan de : — An extinct volcano lying between the vol- 

 canoes Irazu and Poas, and having an altitude of 9,355 feet. The 



