88 General Notes. 



SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF OLIGOMETRA STUDERI. 



Bj' an unfortunate slip I described a new comatulid from Dirk Hartog 

 Island, West Australia, under the name of Oliyometra studerl, whereas it 

 belongs in reality to the genus Cyllometra, and should have been called 

 Cyllometra studeri. Cyllometra studeri is related to C. informis which was 

 taken bj^ the Challenger among the Philij)pine Islands in 18 fatlioms. 

 Another specimen in the U. S. National Museum from oft" the northern 

 end of Samal Island, 23 fathoms, appears to be typical, agreeing perfectly 

 with Carpenter's figure. 



Cylloinelra studeri difiers from C. informis most obviously in its smooth 

 pinnules, the lower and middle pinnules in the latter having slightly over- 

 lapping and spinous ends to the joints, and in the much greater length 

 and greater slenderness of P2, which is twice as long as P3 with eighteen 

 joints most of whicli are elongated, instead only slightly when at all longer 

 than P3 with twelve joints, most of which are squarish. Both species are 

 readily distinguished from tlie otliers of the genus by the small number of 

 cirrus joints. . — Austin H. Clark. 



THE ALLEGHENY CAVE RAT AT NEWFOUNDLAND, N. J. 



The only positive record of the occurrence of Neotoma pennsylvanica in 

 New Jersey is that of the capture of three individuals l)y Mr. Samuel N. 

 Rhoads at Bearfort Mountain, Passaic County, N. J. During a three 

 days' visit to the same county in July, 1908, four specimens were caught 

 by the writers on the eastern side of Mount Jefferson, near the village of 

 Newfoundland. This part of the mountain consists mainly of a high cliff, 

 with piles of large boulders at the bottom ; and it is among these rocks 

 that the rats live. 



During the night of July od an adult male and an adult female were 

 trapped at the northern end of this clitf ; and two nights later another 

 adult male and a young female were captured in the same manner about 

 one-half mile to the south. Gnawed acorns and other signs of the presence 

 of "mountain rats" were to be seen in several additional jilaces along 

 the cliti", while Mr. Daniel Bigelow, of Newfoundland, told us they were 

 also to be found on the mountain near (ilreen Pond, about four miles to 

 the southwest. — W. DcW. Miller and James Chapin. 



ON THE NAME OF THE ANTILLEAN KILLDEER. 



The small resident West Indian Killdeer named Charadrius torquatus 

 Linnaeus (Sys. Nat. ed. 12, I, p. 25"), 1766), has this name unfortunately 

 preoccui)ie<l by Charadrius fonjratu.i Pontoppidan (Danske Atlas, I, 176;], 

 625; based on Brisson, Orn. (Jen. (55), sp. 7 = Cliaradrius hiaticula Linn.). 

 As Charadrius Jamaicensis Miiller ( Linne's Natursys. Suppl. , p. 117, 177() ; 

 founded on Brown, Jamaica, p. 477) can not be identified with any degree 

 of certainty, the Linnjean species may l)e called Oxyechus vociferus 

 rubidus. — ./. II. Riley. 



