TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Officers and Committees for 1916 iii 



Proceedings for 1916 ix-xiv 



Notes on the Systematic Position of Certain Genera and Higher 



Groups of Starfishes, by Walter K. Fisher 1-6 



Prodome of a Revision of the Chrysodomoid Whelks of the Boreal 



and Arctic Regions, by William H. Dall 7-8 



New Species of Opuntia, by David Griffiths 9-16 



Description of a New Hazel Grouse from Manchuria, by J. H. 



Riley 17-18 



A New Anolis from Cuba, by T. Barbour and C. T. Ramsden . 19-20 

 Aplodontia humboldtiana, a New Mountain Beaver from the 



Humboldt Bay District, California, by Walter P. Taylor . . . 21-24 

 Description of a New Cisco from Lake Erie, byTarleton H. Bean 25-26 



New East Indian Starfishes, by Walter K. Fisher 27-36 



A New Bat from Porto Rico, by Hartley H. T. Jackson .... 37-38 

 A List of the Fishes of the Seneca Creek, Montgomery County, 



Maryland, Region, by Lewis Radclifie and W. W. Welsh . . 39-46 



General Notes 47-50 



Note on the Indigenous Rodent of Santo Domingo, by Gerrit 

 S. Miller, Jr., 47; Remains of Two Species of Caprotnys from 

 Ancient Burial Sites in Jamaica, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., 48; 

 The First New Zealand Crinoid, by Austin H. Clark, 48; 

 Identification of a Supposedly Anomalous Echinoderm, by 

 Austin H. Clark, 49-50. 

 Six New Starfishes from the Gulf of California and Adjacent 



Waters, by Austin H. Clark ' 51-62 



The Generic Status of Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken, by J. R. 



Malloch 63-70 



Description of a New Subspecies of the American Least Tern, by 



Edgar A. Mearns , 71-72 



Two New Salamanders of the Genus Desmognathus, by E. R. 



Dunn 73-76 



Notes on Qiiamasia with a description of a New Species, by 



C. V. Piper . 77-82 



Description of a New Pine Mouse from Florida, by Arthur H. 



Howell 83-84 



General Notes 85-86 



New Generic Name for a Tree-toad from New Guinea, by Leon- 

 hard Stejneger, 85; Notes on Amphisbasnian Nomenclature, 

 by Leonhard Stejneger, 85; A Second Record of Nyctinomus 

 depressus for Iowa, by Ira N. Gabrielson, 86; A Change of 

 Name for an Arizona Mistletoe, by Paul C. Standley, 86. 

 Description of a New Eublepharid Lizard from Costa Rica, by 

 G. K. Noble 87-88 



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