170 abstracts: zoology 



ZOOLOGY. — A revision of the American species of Peripatus. Austin 

 HoBART Clark. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington, 26: 15-20. 1913. 



The American species belonging to the family Peripatidae are distri- 

 buted in the following genera: Oroperipatus Cockerell, Peripatus Guild- 

 ing (with the subgenera Plicatoperipatus, nov., Macroperipatus, nov., 

 Peripatus, sensu stricto, and Epiperipatus, nov.). 



The American species belonging to the Peripatopsidae is considered 

 as representing a distinct genus, which is recognized under the name of 

 Metaperipatus, nov! 



The family Peripatidae is divided into two subfamihes, Peripatinae, 

 including Mesoperipatus (a central African type), Oroperipatus and 

 Peripatus (with the included subgenera), and Eoperipatinae, nov., in- 

 cluding the East Indian genus Eoperipatus. A. H. C. 



ZOOLOGY. — Notes on American species of Peripatus, with a list of known 

 forms. Austin Hobart Clark. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections, 60: No. 17, 1-5. 1913. 

 Peripatus (Peripatus) juanensis Bouvier is recorded from the island 

 of Vieques near Porto Rico, and Peripatus (Macroperipatus) geayi 

 Bouvier is recorded from La Chorrera, Panama. In an appendix is given 

 a list of all the American species of the group, with the ascertained 

 range of each, A. H. C. 



ZOOLOGY. — On a small collection of recent crinoids- from the Indian 



Ocean. Austin H. Clark. Records of the Indian Museum, 



7: Part 3, No. 26, 267-271. 1912. 



The collection herein described was received too late to be included in 



the monograph of the crinoids of India by the same author, and so an 



account of it was published as a supplementary paper. A. H. C. 



ZOOLOGY. — Preliminary descriptions of eleve7i new crinoids belonging 

 to the families Himerometridae, Mariametridae and Colohometridae, 

 discovered by the Siboga in the Dutch East Indies. Austin H. 

 Clark. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 10: 31-41. 

 1912. 

 Short preliminary diagnoses are here given of new species in these 



three families found by the Siboga. A. H. C. 



