Director' s Ayiniial Report. 9 



A. F. Judd, G. P. Wilder, C. A. Rice, W. H. Rice, Jr.. A. Rice, 

 F. Greenwell, H. Hitchcock, W. A. Bryan, L. A. Thurston, R. 

 A. Cooke, G. P. Cooke, O. Sorenson, D. Fleming, J. J. Goureia 

 andW. G. Marshall; Masters Mott-Smith, Lindley, Paris, Weedon, 

 Emerson, von Holt, H. and C. M. Cooke III. Over fifteen thousand 

 of the specimens catalogued during the year were collected by 

 Messrs. Stokes and Forbes of the Museum staff. 



"Among the noteworthy specimens added to our coUecftions 

 this year are: 



''Succinea rubida Pease. This species has been found only 

 twice since the time of Pease, as far as I know, and only three or 

 four specimens have been taken. In June thirty-one specimens 

 were found back of Wahiawa, Kauai, and the Museum has now a 

 £ne series showing the different stages from rather young to the 

 adult specimens. This species is quite rare in its natural habitat. 

 The young appear, in the field, to belong to different species as 

 the animals are light colored while those of adult specimens are of 

 a dark slate. Many trips have been undertaken to Kauai in the 

 ^opes of finding this species and the related Sncciiica explanata. 

 The latter, as far as I know, has not been found since it was taken 

 b}' the United States Exploring P^xpedition. 



"Two new species related to Sncciuea, but undoubtedly con- 

 stituting a new genus, were found on Kauai in fossil deposits at 

 Hanamaulu and Haena, Kauai. These are the only species of 

 the Siiccineidae which are umbilicated. 



"A new species, which may belong to a genus new to these 

 islands, was found on the coral bluffs near Koloa, Kauai. This 

 species is related to the Opeas, an imported genus, the species of 

 which are common in all our gardens. Evidence from the more mod- 

 ern of the so-called fossil beds shows that at least one of the species 

 of Opeas was originally brought here b}- the early Hawaiians. 



"The finding of Leptachatina fossilis at Maua, Kaviai, is also 



worthy of mention. The type and what was formerly the only 



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