adverti8p:ment. 



The scientific publications of the National Museum consist of two 

 series — the BuUetin and the Proceedings. 



The BuUetin^ publication of which was begun in 1875, is a series 

 of more or less extensive works intended to illustrate the collections 

 of the United States National Museum and, with the exception noted 

 below, is issued separately. These bulletins are monographic in scope 

 and are devoted principally to the discussion of large zoological and 

 botanical groups, faunas and floras, bibliographies of eminent natural- 

 ists, reports of expeditions, etc. They are usually of octavo size, 

 although a quarto form, known as the Special Bulletin, has been 

 adopted in a few instances in which a larger page was deemed 

 indispensable. 



This work forms No. 68 of the Bulletin series. 



Since 1902 the volumes of the series known as "Contributions from 

 the National Herbarium," and containing papers relating to the botan- 

 ical collections of the Museum, have been published as bulletins. 



The Proceedings^ the first volume of which was issued in 1878, are 

 intended as a medium of publication of brief original papers based 

 on the collections of the National Museum, and setting forth newly 

 acquired facts in biolog}-, anthropology, and geology derived there- 

 from, or containing descriptions of new forms and revisions of lim- 

 ited groups. A volume is issued annually, or oftener, for distribution 

 to libraries and scientific establishments, and in view of the importance 

 of the more prompt dissemination of new facts a limited edition of 

 each paper is printed in pamphlet form in advance. 



Richard Kathbun, 

 Assista7it Sec7'etary^ Smithsonian Institution^ 

 In charge of the United States National Musexiin, 



Washingtpn, U. S. a., November 10, 1909. 



