LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 85 



VOI.UME XIV, CONTAINING PAPERS 842-886. 



Smithsonian Institution. ] United States National Museum. | | 



Proceedings | of the | United States National Museum. | ■ | 



Volume XIV. | 1891. | | Published under the direction of 



the Smithsonian Institution. | | Washington: | Government 



Printing Office. | 1892. 



8vo., pp. vi, 1-750, 34 pis., 3 figs. 



P. 842. A catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of South America. By 

 Carl H. Eigenmann and Rosa S. Eigenmann. 



pp. 1-81. 



P. 843. Fishes collected by William P. Seal in Chesapeake Bay, at Cape 

 Charles City, Virginia, September 16 to October 8, 1890. 

 By Barton A. Bean. 



pp. 83-94. 



P. 844. List of North American land and fresh-water shells received 

 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, with notes and 

 comments thereon. By Robert E. C. Stearns. 



pp. 9.5-106. 



P. 845. Relations of temperature to vertebrae among fishes. By 

 David S. Jordan. 



pp. 107-120. 



P. 846. Report upon a collection of fishes made at Guaymas, Sonora, 

 Mexico, with descriptions of new species. By Barton W. 

 Evermann and Oliver P. Jenkins. 



pp. 121-165, 2 pis. 



P. 847. Description of a new genus and species of tailless liatrachian 

 from tropical America. By Leonhard Stejneger and Fred- 

 erick C. Test. 



pp. 167-168, 1 plate. 



P. 848. On the structure of the tongue in humming birds. By Fred- 

 eric A. Lucas. 



pp. 169-172, 1 plate, 2 figs. 



P. 849. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Alhatross. No. XX. On some new or interesting 

 west American shells from the dredgings of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer Alhatnm in 1888, and from other 

 sources. By William H. Dall. 



pp. 173-191, 3 pis. 



P. 850. Descriptions of two supposed new species of mice from Costa 

 Rica and Mexico, with remarks on HesjJeromys melanophrys 

 of Coues. By J. A. Allen. 



pp. 193-196. 



P. 851. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuida? of tem- 

 perate North America. Revision of the species of Mames- 

 Pra. By John B. Smith, 



pp. 197-276, 4 pis. 



