gg REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1896. 



Tex., preliminary descriptions of which have already appeared in the 

 Proceedings. Complete descriptions will be published later. Miss 

 Kathbun has prepared an annotated list of the Decapod Crustacea of 

 Jamaica, for publication by the Institute of Jamaica. A paper con- 

 taining descriptions of the new forms will be published in the Proceed- 

 ings, and is now in press. Miss Eathbun spent about two weeks in 

 the summer of 1895 examining literature relating to the Crustacea 

 m the libraries of Boston and Cambridge. 



There were sixty-nine accessions to this department during the year. 

 Generally speaking, the accessions for the present year were not so 

 large or so important as those of the preceding year, although the 

 material received from the United States Fish Commission exceeded 

 in value that of the accessions obtained from the same source during 

 1894-95. 



The principal additions to the collections during the year are thus 

 described by the curator : 



From the United States Fish Commission were received six accessions, compris- 

 ing a large amount of material collected by the steamer Albatross, chiefly in the 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea; also the following : Crustacea collected during the 

 cruise to the Galapagos Islands in 1891, representing groups Fodophthalma, Copep- 

 oda, pelagic Schizopoda, Pantopoda and larva^ of Stomatopoda; meduste and 

 hydroids studied by Prof. .1. Walter Fewkes; Crustacea from St. Paul Island, Bering 

 Sea, collected by Messrs. F. W. True and D. W. Prentiss, jr. ; invertebrates from 

 Kamchatka and the Commander Islands, collected by Dr. L. Stejueger, and inverte- 

 brates from .lapan, collected by N. Grebnitzki. (Gift. ) 



From the Imperial Royal Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, through Dr. 

 Franz Ritter von Hauer, fourteen species of echinoderms dredged by H. M. S. Pola 

 in the eastern Mediterranean, 1890-1894. (Exchange.) 



From the Royal Biological Station, Helgoland, through Dr. Ehrenbaum, forty-six 

 species of Crustacea from the North Sea. (Exchange.) 



From Edgar J. Bradley, Happy Valley Waterworks, South Australia, four acces- 

 sions of Crustacea and other invertebrates from Australia. (Exchange.) 



From Glen Island Museum, Glen Island, N. Y., through L. M. McCormick, curator, 

 fourteen species of invertebrates from the Gulf of Aden. (Exchange.) 



From Museo Nacional, San .lose, Costa Rica, through J. Fid. Tristan, many fresh- 

 water crabs, including several new species. (Gift.) 



From H. Pittier, director, Institute Fisico-geografico Nacional, San Josd, Costa 

 Rica, twelve lots of Crustacea from Gulf of Dolce, Costa Rica, several species being 

 rare. (Gift.) 



From P. W. Jarvis, Colonial Bank, Kingston, Jamaica, specimens of crabs, includ- 

 ing many new and rare forms. (Exchange. ) 



From Lieut. Wirt Robinson, United States Army, twelve species (one new) of 

 crustaceans and echinoderms from Venezuela (Gift.) 



From the Department of Agriculture, through Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the 

 Biological Survey, fresh-water crabs and shrimps from Mexico (collected by Nelson 

 and Goldman), yielding two new species. (Gift.) 



From W. P. Hay, Washington, D. C, thirteen species of named isopods and 

 amphipods. (Exchange.) 



From F. S. Conant, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., types of three 

 species of cha-tognaths. (Gift.) 



From Prof. S. E. Meek, Fayetteville, Ark., types of Camburus faxonii, Meek. 

 (Gift.) 



