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REPORT O^ NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



Dall, William Healey. Mollusk fauna 

 of northwest America. 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 15, 2nd ser., Cen- 

 tennial volume; Sept. 7, 

 1912, pp. 243-248. 

 Discusses the history of the explo- 

 ration of this fauna, in which the 

 Smithsonian Institution through Dr. 

 Philip Pearsall Carpenter was an im- 

 portant factor; and explains its char- 

 acteristics. 



Note on the generic name Pectun- 



culus. 



Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, 

 10, pt. 3, Oct., 1912, pp. 

 255, 256. 

 Shows that the name was first ap- 

 plied in binomial nomenclature to 

 Cardium edule Linnaeus, and can not 

 therefore be used for the other groups 

 to which it has subsequently been ap- 

 plied. 



Feeding habits of Ariolimax. 



Nautilus, 26, No. 9, Jan., 

 1913, p. 108. 

 Describes the feeding habits as ob- 

 served by Dr. C. Hart Merriam in 

 California. 



Note on Cyprina islandica. 



Ptoc. Malacol. Soc. London, 

 10, pt. 4, Mar., 1913, p. 

 286. 

 Discusses the nomenclature of this 

 species. 



Charles W. Gripp. 



Nautilus, 26, No. 11, Mar., 

 1913, p. 132. 

 Obituary notice of a valuable con- 

 tributor to the National Museum col- 

 lection. 



Dall, William Healey. Shells collected 

 at Manzanillo, West Mexico, October, 



1910. 



Nautilus, 26, No. 12, Apr., 

 1913, p. 143. 

 A catalogue of species collected at 

 Manzanillo by C. R. Orcutt and sent 

 by him to the National Museum. 



Diagnoses of new shells from the 



Pacific Ocean. 



Ptoc. U S. Nat. Mus., 45, 

 No. 2002, June 11, 1913, 

 pp. 587-597. 

 Diagnoses of new genera and species 

 represented in the collection of the 

 National Museum, namely: New 

 genus, Ilalicardissa based on Verticor- 

 dia perplicata Dall, Galapagos Is- 

 lands; Cosmioconcha, subgenus of ^ m- 

 phissa, type Buccinum modestum 

 Powys, Gulf of California; and the 

 following new species: Tritonofusus 

 joTdani, Puget Sound; Boreotrophon 

 gorgon, Hondo, Japan; Amphissa 

 (Cosmioconcha) palmeri, A. (C) per- 

 gracilis, A. (C.) pervula, Liotialurida, 

 all from the Gulf of California; Bolma 

 bartschii, Moluccas; Margarites sim- 

 blus, California; CalUostoma nephe- 

 loide, Panama; Pecten {Pseudamu- 

 sium) arces, California; Cuspidaria 

 subglacialis, California; Psephidiacy- 

 mata, Lower California; Lyonsia 

 {Allogramma) amabilis, California; 

 L. (A .) oahuensis, Hawaiian Islands; 

 Lyonsia pugetensis, Puget Sound; 

 Lyonsiella magnifica, Mazatlan; Po- 

 romya (Dermatomya) tenuiconcha, 

 Monterey Bay, California; Erycina 

 colpoica, Gulf of California; Rochefor- 

 tia compressa, Aligena nucea, and 

 Vesicomya (Archivesica) suavis, from 

 the Gulf of California. 



PROTOTRACHEATA. 



Clark, Austin Hobart. A revision of 

 the American species of Peripatus. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, 26, Jan. 18, 1913, pp. 

 15-19. 



Clark, Austin Hobart. Notes on 

 American species of Peripatus, with a 

 list of known forms. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 

 60, No. 17, Jan. 25, 1913, 

 pp. 1-5. 



INSECTS. 



Alexander, Charles P. A revision of 

 the South American dipterous insects 

 of the family Ptychopteridae. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 44, 



No. 1953, Feb. 20, 1913, 



pp. 331-335, figs. 1-3. 



Describes 1 new species, of which 



the type is in the National Museum. 



Alexander, Charles P. A synopsis of 

 part of the neotropical crane-flies of the 

 subfamily Limnobinse. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 44, 



No. 1966, Apr. 30, 1913, 



pp. 481-549, pis. 65-68. 



Of the new forms described, the 



types of 20 new species and 1 new 



