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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



JORDAN, David Starr, and SNYDER, 

 John Ottkrhein — Continued. 



Ncozoarccs .itcindarlmcri, Zoarchian vencficus, 

 Opisthocentrus zonope, Abryois azumw, Erno- 

 . grammus cpallax, Stichxus nozawse, Lumpenus 

 fowleri. 



Descriptions of two new species of 



Squaloid sharks from Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mm., xxv. No. 1279, Sept. 

 2, 1902, pp. 79-81, figs. 1,2. 

 New genus: Deania. 



New species: Etmnpterus lucifer, Deania 

 eglantina. 



On certain species of fishes con- 

 fused with Bryostemma polyactocepha- 

 lum. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns.. xxv, No. 1300, Nov 

 4, 1902, pp. 613-618, figs. 1-3. 

 New genus: Bryoloplms. 

 New species: Bryostemma tnrsodrs, B. deco- 

 ratum, Bryolophus lysimus. 



JORDAN, David Starr, and STARKS, 

 Edwin Chapin. A review of the 

 Hemibranchiate fishes of Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, No. 1308, Dec. 

 2, 1902, pp. 57-73, figs. 1-3. 



A review of the Synentognathous 



fishes of Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, No. 1319, Feb. 

 4, 1903, pp. 525-544, figs. 1-3. 



Description of a new species of 



sculpin from Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi. No. 1326, Apr. 

 11, 1903, pp. 689, 690, fig. 1. 



KNOWLTON, Frank H. Change of 

 name of Fl'cus.^ Iwfiperia, from the vicin- 

 ity of Ashland, Oreg. 



Proc. Biol Soc. Wash., xv, Apr. 25, 1902, 

 p. 86. 

 The name Ficus? hcaperia lias been used in 

 the Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey on 

 the Flora of the Montana Formation, for a 

 plant from the North Fork of Button Creek in 

 the Laramie Plains, Wyoming, and also for a 

 different species from the vicinity of Ashland, 

 Oreg., in the 20th Annual Report of the U. S. 

 Geological Surve;,', and as the former ante- 

 dates the latter, the change to Ficusf applega- 

 tei is made. 



Notes on the fossil fruits and lig- 

 nites of Brandon, Vt. 



Bull. Torrcy Bofan. Club, No. 29, Nov., 1902, 

 pp. 635-641, pi. 25. 

 The occurrence and geological position of 

 the lignites are described and the conclusion 

 reached that in age they are younger than 

 the Eocene. These Brandon lignites are also 

 determined to be largely coniferous. Selected 

 specimens upon examination were found to 

 be only varietally different from Schmaul- 



KNOWLTON, Frank H.— Continued, 

 hausen's Pitoxylon microporosum, and for the 

 Brandon form the name Piiyoxyloninicroporo- 

 sum brandonianum is proposed. One small 

 specimen was determined to be dicotyledo- 

 nous, probably allied to Betula. The author 

 had intended making an exhaustive micro- 

 scopic study of the structure of the fruits so 

 abundant in those lignites, but was prevented 

 from completing the work, and therefore pre- 

 sents only some scattered notes on a few of 

 the species, to one of which he gives the new 

 name Cncumites lesquereurii. 



Report on a small collection of 



fossil plants from the vicinity of Porcu- 

 pine Butte, Montana. 



Btdl. Torrey Botan. Club, No. 29, Dec, 1902, 



pp. 705-709, pi. 26, fig. 1 (in text). 



In this paper four species are enumerated, 



among them one that is new — Tillia treedii — 



and the age of the beds in which they occur 



is given as the Fort Union Tertiary. 



Fossil flora of the John Day basin, 



Oregon. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 204, 1902, pp. 

 1-113, pis. i-xvii. 

 The ,Tohn Day basin lies in nortli central 

 Oregon between the north and south ranges 

 of the Blue Mountains, covering an area of 

 approximately 10,000 square miles, drained by 

 the .John Day River and its tributaries. The 

 flora of the basin, as set fortli in this paper, 

 comprises 150 forms distributed among 37 

 natural families and the anomalous group of 

 Phyllites. Of the 150 forms enumerated, 24 

 have not been specifically named, and 44 

 species and one variety are described as new, 

 the previously known .species numbering 81. 

 The beds are all of Tertiary age, ranging from 

 Lower Eocene to Upper Miocene. The con- 

 ditions prevailing in the John Day basin in 

 Tertiary times extended into central Wash- 

 ington, northwestern Idaho, and western 

 Oregon. 



KOTINSKY, Jacob. The first North 

 American Leaf-gall Diaspine. 



Proc. Ent. Snr. Wash., V. 1903, pp. 149-150. 

 Describes Cryptophyllaspis Uquidavibaris. 

 new species. 



LUCAS, Frederic A. Pah^ontological 

 notes. 



Science (new scries), xvi.No. 402, Sept. 12, 

 1902, p. 435. 

 The name Daccntrurus is proposed to re- 

 place Omosaurus, this being preoccupied. 

 Hoplito.saurtis marshi is proposed to replace 

 Sfegosau7-us mar.'ihi, this dinosaur being shown 

 to be related to Polacanthvs. 



Aves. 



Text Book of Pulteontology, by Karl Ton 

 Zittel, Nov., 1902, pp. 256-278, figs. 362- 

 373. 



