456 abstracts: botany 



BOTANY.—^ key to common Nebraska shrubs. William H. Lamb, 



Forest Service. Forest Club Annual, University of Nebraska 5. 



1913. 



This is a key, based on prominent distinctive characteristics that 



can readily be observed by those who have had no special training 



in botany, and intended as a guide in the identification of the more 



common genera of shrubs and woody vines native and original in 



Nebraska. W. H. L. 



ZOOLOGY.^ — Descriptions of twenty new recent unstalked crinoids, belong- 

 ing to the families Antedonidce and Atelecrinida:, from the Dutch East 

 Indies. Austin H. Clark. Notes from the Ley den Museum, 34: 

 No. 2, Note XXV. 1912. 

 The following new species, all collected by the Dutch steamer Siboga 

 in the Dutch East Indies, are herein described: Antedon moluccana, 

 Compsometra iris, Compsometra parviflora, Compsometra longicirra, Comp- 

 sofnetra gracilipes, Iridometra (Eumetra) aphrodite, Iridometra gra- 

 cilis, Toxometra purpvjrea, Psathyrometra major, Psathyrometra minima, 

 Psathyrometra inusitata, Psathyrometra anomala, Nanometra clymene, 

 Trichometra delicata, Trichometrabrevipes, Thaumatometra alcyon, Thau- 

 matometra thysbe, Atopcrinus (a new genus of Atelecrinidte) siboga, 

 Atelecrinus sidcatus and Atelecrinus anomalus. A. H. C. 



ENTOMOLOGY.— Ptccofe note su degli Onychophora. Austin H. 

 Clark. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 42: 253-255. 1913. 



Thru the courtesy of President J. C. Branner of Stanford University, 

 California, and of Prof. J. H. Comstock of Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 New York, the author has been enabled to examine a specimen of Peri- 

 patus taken by President Branner at Breves, on the island of Marajo 

 at the mouth of the Amazons, in 1882 and recorded by him, under the 

 generic name only, in 1886. It proves to be an example of Peripatus 

 (E piper ipatus) simoni Bouvier. 



A specimen received thru Mr. W. E. Broadway from Tobago, British 

 West Indies (a new locality for the group) represents Peripatus {Epiperi- 

 patus) trinidadensis Stuhlmann, but appears possibly to indicate a local 

 variety, for which the name Peripatus {Epiperipatus) broadwayi is 

 suggested. 



A specimen of Peripatus (Peripatus) juanensis Bouvier is recorded 

 from Vieques, near Porto Rico, and three specimens of Peripatoides 

 novae-zealandiae (Hutton) are recorded from New Zealand. A. H. C. 



