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United States, but including a few from other localities. The richness 

 of the material has enabled the author to describe twenty-four new 

 species and a new genus, Ophiomisidium, and to make critical studies 

 of several species which were imperfectly known up to this time. 



To make the record complete for the West Indian ophiurans in the 

 National Museum, a list is appended of those species identified many 

 3'ears ago by the Hon. Theodore Lyman, with the localities for each. 



Mary J. Rathbun. 



ZOOLOGY. — Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North 

 Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Addison Emery 

 Verrill. Harriman Alaska Series, vol. XIV. Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, Publication 2140. City of Washington, April 30, 1914. 

 Part I: Text. Pp. i-xn, 1-408, text figures 1-16. Part II: Plates. 

 Pis. 1-110. 

 This, which is the first volume of the Harriman Alaska Series to be 

 published by the Smithsonian Institution, is based on collections from 

 the Harriman Expedition, the Canadian Geological Survey and various 

 museums and individuals. The introduction deals with the richness 

 of the fauna and the food, migrations, larval stages, senses and varia- 

 tions of starfishes. More than half of the systematic part is devoted 

 to the family Asteriidae, for which there is given an analytical table 

 of the genera and species, etc., occurring in the region. Discusses the 

 relations of this and other faunae and closes with a bibliography. 



Seventeen new genera and many new species, subspecies and varieties 

 are described. Mary J. Rath bun. 



ZOOLOGY. — Notes on some speciynens of a species of onychophore 



(Oroperipatus corradoi) 7iew to the fauna of Panama. Austin 



HoBART Clark. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 63^: 1, 2. 



February 21, 1914. 



Four specimens of Oroperipatus corradoi (Camerano), collected by Mr. 



James Zetek at Ancon, Panama Canal Zone, are described in detail and 



a list is given of all the species of onychophores which are known to 



occur in the Canal Zone. * A. H. C. 



ZOOLOGY. — A monograph of the foraminifera of the North Pacific 



ocean: Part III, Lagenidae. Joseph A. Cushman. Bulletin 71, 



U. S. National Museum. Pp. i-ix, 1-125, pis. 1-47. December 



12, 1913. 



The present volume, which is the third of a series dealing with the 



foraminifera of the North Pacific ocean, relates wholly to members of 



