JULY, 1900. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
189 
Agromyzidae : (33) Agromyza aeneiventris, Fall.; 
Trypetidae: (34) Tephritis clathrata, Loew. ; 
Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera : (35) Pyrameis huntera, F. ; (36) 
Pieris rapae, L. ; (37) Colias philodice, Gdt. ; 
Fleterocera: (38) Pliisia simplex, Gn. ; 
Hemiptera. Capsidae : (39) Lygus pratensrs, L. ; (4o)Lygussp. 
Mounds Near Lisbon, Ransom Co,, North Dakota, BY LEE 
R. WHITNEY. A solitary mound, occupying an elevated posi- 
tion on the west shore of a beautiful valley and about five miles 
northwest from Lisbon, was selected for exploration. 
Its form was that of a frustrum of a cone, the diameter of 
whose base measured thirty feet, that of its superior plane, twenty 
feet, the height of the latter being about four feet. 
I commenced digging a little to the west of the center, remov- 
ing the earth stratum by stratum, observing and noting objects 
of interest as they appeared. After going to a depth of one foot, 
charred bones were found, and for a radius of six feet a little to 
the west of the center of the mound, nothing but charred bones 
were found, such as vertebrae, ribs, cranea, etc., also a skull of 
some small animal, charred. These had been apparently thrown 
in promiscuously, as if from disarticulated limbs. These bones 
were very easily broken and it was nearly impossible to secure 
a leg, arm or in fact any large bone intact that had been charred. 
Some of the bones of the leg, hand and back were found in a 
very good state of preservation, although considerably charred. 
Parts of the jaw bone were found with the teeth intact, all charred 
and burnt. About a foot to the east of the fire limit, in very 
nearly the center of the mound and about six inches deep, was 
found a shell ornament, consisting of a good size clam shell pol- 
ished, with two deep notches and several smaller notches at the 
larger end. The deep notches being opposite one another, indi- 
cated that it probably had been used as a pendant. A polished 
bone needle three and one half inches long and a bone scraper 
made from a rib bone were also found near the shell. 
To the west, one foot from the fire limit, was found a por- 
tion of a skull, a lower jaw bone, arm bones, etc., which had evi- 
dently escaped the fire. The jaw was found resting in the skull ; 
the arm bones were placed promiscuously on top of the skull and 
jaw, and extended into the fire space. To the north of the fire 
limit, two feet away, was found a portion of the base of a skull 
which had been fractured before having been placed there, a piece 
having been broken out and two distinct cracks showing, as 
