696 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



John B. Smith. Notes on the Satarnidm. 



Entomologiea Americana, ii, No. 2, May, 18S6, p. 44. 



Gives a brief outline of the characters of the family and of proposed subdivision on the 

 basis of venation and antennal structure. 

 John B. Smith. Report on the Ouiou Cut- worm, Agrotis messoria. 



Kept. TJ. S. Dept. Agric, 1885, pp. 273-274. 



Gives the results of observations of the habits of this larva in onion fleld.s, with a statement 

 of damage done and remedies applied. 

 John B. Smith. Report on tlie Strawberry Weevil, Anthonomus miiscalus. 



Rept. U. S. Dept. Agric, 1885, pp. 277-278. 



Gives the results of observations on this insect on the strawberries of Staten Island. 

 John B. Smith. Larva of Hemileuca main ; bibliography of. 



Oan. Ent., svni, March, 1886, p. 60. 



Gives references to the literature of this larva, and where figured. 

 SiDNEV I. Smith. The Abyssal Decapod Crustacese of the Albatross Dredgings in the 

 North Atlantic. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 1886, pp. 187-198. 



This article is in the main abstracted from the introductory portion of the author's " Report 

 on the Decapod Crustacea) of the Albatross Dredgings off the East Coast of the United States' 

 during the Summer and Autumn of 1884," with twenty plates, recently presented to the TJ. S. 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, by whose permission it is here published in advance of 

 the Government report. The region it covers is limited on the south by the latitude of Capo 

 Hatteras. 



The following lists are given with notes : 



List of Decapoda taken below 1,000 fathoms in the North Atlantic by the Albatross in 

 1883-85, with the bathyiuetrical range of each species. 



Species inhabiting the bottom or its immediate neighborhood. 



Species probably not confined to the immediate neighborhood of the bottom, but showing 

 structural evidence of inhabiting abyssal depths. 



Doubtful, but probably inhabiting abyssal depths. 



Species probably not inhabiting abyssal depths. 



The structural and other characteristics of the deep-sea forms are discussed at some length. 



R. E. C. Stearns. Edible Shell-fish fonnd near Cuba. 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Com., V, Aug. 21, 1885, pp. 311-312. 



R. E. C. Stearns. Note on the Clams of the Pacific coast. 



Bull.U. S.Fish Com., v, Sept. 15, 1885, pp. 356-357. 



R. E. C. Stearns. The distribution of species. 



Forest and Stream, xxvi, No. 16, May 13, 1885, pp. 304-305. , 



This paper was read before the Chicago meeting of American Fisheries Society, April 14, 

 1886. After referring to the artificial distribution of species, as in fish culture, attention ia 

 called to the incidental distribution (as opposed to intentional), as in case of weeds, small mam- 

 mals, insects, and mollusks. 



R. E. C. Stearns. [The Teredo or Shipworm.] 

 Amer.Nat.,xx. 2, Feb., 1886, pp. 131-136. 



This article is an answer to a letter of inquiry addressed to the Museum by one of its cor- 

 respondents. 



Silas Stearns. Notes on the Great Dolphin, Coryphwna hippurus, Linu6. 



Proc. v. S. Nat. Mus., vni, Dec. 7, 1885, pp. 635-636. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Departmentof the Interior : | U.S. National Museum. | — | 

 Bulletin | No. 29 | of the | United States National Museum. | Results | of | Or- 

 nithological Explorations | in | the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka. | 

 By I Leonhard Stejneger | — | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1885. 

 8vo. pp. 1-382. Plates, 1-8; 7 figures. 



The official report on the ornithological collection made by the author during his travels in 

 Kamtschatka, 1882-'83. The first part of the book treats of the species collected ; the second 

 part contains a list of all the species reported to inhabit Kamtschatka ; the third part em- 

 braces the "conclusions," being a summary of the composition of the avifauna, the migra- 

 tions, etc. 



