196 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



MOLLUSKS. 



Baetsch, Pattd. Preliminary report 

 on the Bahama cerions planted on 

 the Florida Keys. 



Carnegie Inst, of Wash- 

 ington, Year Book, 

 No. 13, 1915, p. 196. 

 Abstract of report on breed- 

 ing experiments with. Bahama 

 cerions. 



Report on the Bahama cerions 



planted on the Florida Keys. 



Carnegie Inst, of Wash- 

 ington, Publication 

 No. 212, 1915, pp. 

 203-212, pis. 1-8. 

 Discusses breeding experi- 

 ments with Bahama cerions 

 planted on Florida Keys, re- 

 ports the status of the various 

 original plantings, discusses 

 new importations, transplanta- 

 tions of first generation of 

 Florida-grown specimens, and 

 records observations on the 

 adult specimens of first gener- 

 ation of Florida-grown individ- 

 uals with tabulated data. 



Experiments with cerions in 



the Florida Keys. 



Smithsonian Misc. 

 Colls., 65, No. 6, 

 June 30, 1915, pp. 

 36-40, figs. 38-40. 

 Brief report on breeding ex- 

 periments with Bahama cerions. 



(See also under John B. Hen- 

 derson. ) 



Dall, William Healey. Notes on 



West American Emarginulinse. 



Nautilus, 28, No. 6, 

 Oct., 1914, pp. 

 62-64. 

 This paper, based on U. S. 

 National Museum material, 

 points out the anatomical dif- 

 ferences between Arctic and 

 Antarctic species of this fam- 

 ily ; describes as new: Punc- 

 turella multistriata, P. cary- 

 ophylla and P. longiflssa, all 

 from the Pacific coast, and 

 maintains the specific rank of 

 P. cognata Gould from Pata- 

 gonia. 



Dall, William Healey. Mollusca 



from South Georgia. 



Mus. Brooklyn Inst. 

 Arts & Sci., Sci. 

 Bull. 2, No. 4, Nov. 

 5, 1914, pp. 69, 70. 

 Enumerates the species col- 

 lected by the Soutli Georgia 

 expedition of which the speci- 

 mens are in the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



On some generic names first 



mentioned in the " Conchological 



Illustrations." 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



48, No. 20(9, Jan. 



19, 1915, pp. 437- 



440. 



Contains nomenclatorial data, 



and proposes for the Califor- 



nian Fissurella crenulata of 



Sowerby, the new generic name 



Macrochasma. 



The earliest notice of a species 



of the genus Gundlachia. 



Nautilus, 28, No. 11, 



Mar., 1915, pp. 128, 



129. 



A minute shell, which has 



been referred to the young of 



Navicella, was described by 



Martin Vahl in 1798, as Patella 



aponogetonis. The characters, 



however, accord better with the 



genus Gundlachia. 



Notes on the Semelidse of the 



west coast of America, including 

 some new species. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., Mar. 2, 1915, 

 pp. 25-28. 

 Based on material in the 

 U. S. National Museum, this 

 paper enumerates the species of 

 the Pacific coast, with corrected 

 nomenclature, and the designa- 

 tion of the following new 

 species : Semele rupicola, 8. 

 regularis, S. paciflca, Ahra 

 pacifica, A. tepocana and A. 

 palmeri. Semele sparsilineata is 

 proposed for 8. variegata Hupe 

 not Lamarck. 



