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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



ogist of the Ignited States Fish Com- 

 mission. I Part I. I Wiisbiugton: | Gov- 

 ernment Printing Offiie. | 1896. | 

 8vo, pp. i-LX, 1-1240. 

 Smithsonian lustitntion. | United States 

 National Museum. | — | Bulletin | of 

 the I United States National Museum. 

 I No. 49. I Bibliography of the Pub- 



lished Writings of Philip | Lutley 

 Sclater, F. R. S., Secretary of the | 

 Zoological Society of London. | — | 

 Prepared under the direction of | G. 

 Bro-wn Goode. | — | Washington : | 

 Government Printing OflSce. | 1896. 

 8vo, pp. l-xix, 1-135. 



PAPERS BY OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND OTHERS, BASED UPON 



MUSEUM MATERIAL. 



ADLER, Cyrus. The Cotton Grotto— 

 an ancient quarry in Jerusalem, with 

 notes on ancient methods of quarrying. 

 Semitic Studies in memory of Reverend 

 Boclor Alexander Kohut, Berlin, 1897, 

 pp. 73-82. 

 An accoiintof the qnarry, in which reference 

 is made to some objects discovered there by 

 the writer in 1891. These objects are now in 

 the National Museum. 

 ALLEN, Harrison. Notes on the vam- 

 pire bat {DiphyUa ecaudata), with 

 special reference to its relationships 

 with Desmodus riifus. 



Proc. U. S. Xat. Mvs., xviii, No. 1099, Oct. 

 26, 1890, pp. 769-777, flgs. 1-6. 



Description of a new species of bat 



of the genus (ilossophmja. 



rroc. r. S. Nat. 2hii<., xvili, No. 1100, Oct. 

 26, 1896, pp. 779-781. 

 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' 

 UNION. Eighth .supplement to the 

 American Ornithologists' Union check- 

 list of North American birds. 



Auk, XIV, No. l,.Jan., 1897, pp. 117-135. 

 This supplement was prepared by the com- 

 mittee on claasitieation and nomenclature. 



Twenty-four additional species and sub- 

 species are admitted to the check-list, and the 

 nomenclature of forty-one species and genera 

 is more or less altered. Six forms described 

 during the two preceding years are not con- 

 sidered worthy of recognition, and action on 

 other cases is deferred from lack of material or 

 information. 

 ANTHONY, A. W. Eggs of the Black, 

 Socorro and Least Petrels. 



Xidoloflist, IV, No. 2, Oct., 1896, pp. 16-17. 

 New birds from the islands and pen- 

 insula of Lower California. 



Auk, XIV, No. 2, Aj.r., 1897, pp. 164-168. 

 The species and 8ubsj)ecies described as new 

 are Garpodacus mcgregori, Thryothorus cer- 

 roenis, and Harporhynchus lecontei arenicola. 

 ASHMEAD, William H. A new para- 

 sitic bee. 



Unt. Xews, vil, Sept., 1896, p. 218. 

 Describes Stelii sezmaculatun, u. sp., from 

 California. 



ASHMEAD, William H.— Continued. 

 On the genera of the Eupelmina>. 



I'roc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, Oct. 30, 1896, pp. 

 4-20. 

 The author gives a revised table of all known 

 genera in this group, and describes nine new 

 genera and sixteen new species. In all, twenty- 

 eight genera are tabulated. 



Rhopalo8omida», anew family of fos- 



sorial wasps. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Waih., in, Oct., 1896, pp. 

 303-309. 

 This family is baaed upon the rare Iihopa- 

 losoma poeyi Cresson, originally described 

 from Cubii, and placed by Cresson in the fam- 

 ily BraconidiB and by We.stwood in the family 

 Vespida>. Mr. Ashmead reports it now for the 

 first time from the United States, gives a full 

 bibliography, quotations from various authors 

 as to its affinities, and his reasons for differing 

 from other authorities and for considering it 

 the type of a distinct family. 



Descriptions of new eynipidous galls 



and gallwasps in the United States 

 National Museum. 



Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., xix. No. 1102, Dec. 

 30, 1896, pp. 113-136. 

 One new genus and forty-three new species 

 of North American Cynipid.B are described. 



A now Hemiteles. 



Ent. News, Vll, Dec, 1896, p. 320. 

 Describes Hemiteles davidsonii, n. sp. 



The phylogeny of the Hynienoptera. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., in, 1890. pp. 323-336. 

 In this paper Mr. Ashmead discusses quite 

 extensively the origin and developuieiit of the 

 Hynienoptera. gives diagrams sliowing the 

 origin and affinities of the different families, 

 and proposes a new classification of these 

 insects. 



— Xitelopierits, anew Larrid genus. 

 Ent. Neivs, vil, Jan., 1897, pp. 22-23. 



Describes Nitelopten(s slossome (new genus 

 and species). 



— Descriptions of some new genera and 

 species of Canadian Proctotrypidte. 



Can. Ent., xxix, March, 1897, pp. ."iS-Se. 

 Describes two new genera, Scorpiotel'ia and 

 Stylidolon, and seven new species of Proctotry p- 

 idse. 



