Zenodoxus palmii (Neumoegen).

Larunda palmii NEUMOEGEN, Ent. News, Vol. II, 1891, p. 108.

This species was described as a Larunda (Gaëa), but it would be better placed in the genus Zenodoxus, to which it is very closely allied if not identical.

Habitat: Arizona.

Zenodoxus canescens Пly. Edw.

Zenodoxus canescens HY. EDWARDS, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 205.

A very distinct species, differing from all the rest of the known species of Zenodoxus. It is wholly ash gray sprinkled with darker gray. The hind wings are transparent, with a gray border. Expanse, 21 mm.

Habitat: Arkansas.

Zenodoxus heuchera Hy. Edw.

Zenodoxus heuchera IIY. EDWARDS, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 205.
Zenodoxus potentilla HY. EDWARDS, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 205.

The types of Zenodoxus heuchera, four in number, in the Edwards Collection, are all males, and the types of Zenodoxus potentilla, also four in number, are all females, and I strongly suspect that the latter is nothing more than the other sex of the former. If not, it is very likely only a variety. It differs from heuchera by having a few reddish scales scattered over the wings and the legs banded with red; in heuchere the scales on the wings and the bands on the legs are yellow. Expanse, 13-18 mm. Habitat: Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, California.

Zenodoxus maculipes G. & R.

Zenodoxus maculipes GROTE & ROBINSON, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. II, 1868, p. 184.

Allied to Z. heuchera, Bronzy brown; palpi and collar pale yellowish; abdomen with a yellowish band on the first and fourth segments; hind tibiæ with a yellow ring. Expanse, 20 mm.

Habitat: Texas.

Article VIII.-CATALOGUE OF METEORITES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, TO JULY 1, 1896.

By E. O. HOVEY.

The Collection of Meteorites in the American Museum of Natural History consists of fifty-five slabs, fragments and complete individuals, representing twenty-six falls and finds. The foundation of the mineralogical department of the Museum was laid in 1874 by the purchase of the collection of S. C. H. Bailey, in which there were a few meteorites. More were acquired with the portion of the Norman Spang Collection of Minerals which was purchased in 1891, and other meteorites have been bought by the Museum from time to time, or have been presented to it by friends. The source from which each specimen came has been indicated in the following catalogue. This publication is made to assist the large number of persons who have become interested in knowing the extent to which the material of various falls and finds has been distributed among collections and the present location of specimens.

A rectangular chiseled and sawed fragment.
Shows poor Widmanstätten figures.

(Spang Coll.)

["Preserved for centuries at the Rathhaus
of Elbogen; its meteoric origin was recog-
nized by Neumann in 1811. Report of find
in Gilb. Ann., 1812, Vol. XLII, p. 197."
Brit. Mus. Cat. Meteorites, p. 44. 1887.]

Magura, Szlanicza, Arva, Hungary.
A sawed slab showing natural surface on one
edge. Etched surface shows small, indistinct
markings.
(Spang Coll.)

[ Made known by Haidinger in 1844.
Pogg. Ann., 1844, Vol. LXI, p. 675." Brit.
Mus. Cat. Meteorites, p. 44. 1887.]

251.

6.4

43.

AËROSIDERITES.—Continued.

Cat.
No.

Date of
Discovery.

NAME AND DESCRIPTION.

Staunton, Augusta Co., Va.

A polished slab 80 x 75 x 6 mm., one surface
etched, showing excellent Widmanstätten
figures.
(Spang Coll.)

Found in 1858 or 1859 by a colored man
named Alf, of the Robert Van Lear planta-
tion, who afterwards threw it away, as he
could not sell it for the price he asked (one
dollar). After lying neglected for some years
it was put with other loose material into a
stone wall. Its great weight and irregular
shape caused it to fall out of the wall, and it
was then used for some time as an anvil.
Afterwards it was built into the curbing of a
cistern. Here, during the summer of 1877,
it was noticed by Mr. M. A. Miller, of Staun-
ton, who obtained it and then disposed of it
to Ward and Howell, of Rochester, from
whom Mr. Spang procured the slab now in
the Museum. Described by J. W. Mallett,
Am. Jour. Sci., HI, xv, p. 337, 1878, whence
the above-given account was taken.

Weight in grams.

217.

24,154

772.

AEROSIDERITES.-Continued.

NAME AND DESCRIPTION.

Weight in grams.

site, outside of which is a shell of cohenite.
The Widmanstätten figures are broad and
interrupted, giving the mass an almost granu-
lar appearance.

(Purchased from E. E. Howell.)
A complete individual; in shape an irregular,
elongated, four-sided pyramid.

(Purchased from E. E. Howell.)
Described by A. E. Foote, Am. Jour. Sci.,
III, xli, p. 413, 1891, and by O. A. Derby,
Idem, III, 1, p. 101, 1895.

El Capitan Mts., New Mexico.

A polished slab 126 x 124 x 4 to 6 mm. in size,
showing the original surface of the mass on
all edges. The Widmanstätten figures are
long and slender, with occasional broad bands.
Many of the interspaces show a second, much
smaller set of markings. One large nodule
of troilite. (Purchased from E. E. Howell.)
Described by E. E. Howell, Am. Jour. Sci.,
III, 1, p. 253. 1895.

2285.

14.7

455.