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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



ABIIMEAD, William H. Notes on cotton 

 insects found in Mississippi. 



Insect Life, vii, No. 3, Dec, 1894, p]). 240- 

 247; No. 4, pp. 320-326. 

 An enumeration of the species found on cot- 

 ton at TJtica, Miss. They belong to the orders 

 Orthoptera, Keuroptera, Platyptera, llymen- 

 optera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, 

 and Diptera. The following new species are 

 described : T/iH^js trifasciatus, Pxocxis gogsypii, 

 Zachresta dimidiata, Limneria misiissippien- 

 sis, Lymcon annulicornis, Otacustes chrysopcB, 

 and O. atriceps. Ohrysojwpliayus compressicor- 

 nisia described as a new genus and species. 

 (See also under Charles V. Riley.) 



BAUR, G. The relationship of the Lacer- 

 tilian genus AnnieUa, Gray. 



Proc. TT. S. N^at.Mun., XVII, No. 1005, Nov. 

 15, 1894, pp. 345-351. 



BEAN, Bakton A. Scientific results of 

 explorations l)y the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission Steamer Albatross, xxxiii. — 

 Descriptions of two new flounders, 

 Gastropsetta frontalis and Cyclopsetta 

 Chittendeni. 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mm., xvii, No. 1030, May 

 11, 1895, pp. 633-636, figs. 1-3. 

 In this i^aper is described a new genus and 

 species, Gastropsetta frontalis, taken by the 

 steamer Albatross in the Gulf of Mexico in 

 1885. The other specie.s, which was presented 

 by the late Dr. John F. Chittenden, of the 

 Victoria Institute, Trinidad, is provisionally 

 placed with Dr. Gill's recent genus, Cyclopsetta- 

 (See also under Tarleton H. Bean.) 



BEAN, Tarleton Hoffman. Description 

 of a new species of Rock Fish, Sebas- 

 tichthys brevispinis, from Alaska. 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus., xvn. No. 1027, May 

 11, 1895, pp. 627-628. 

 The specimen described in this paper was 

 taken at Hassler Harbor, Alaska, in 1882, by 

 Capt H. E. Nichols, U. S. Navy. 



Description of a new species of fish, 



Bleekcria GiUi. 



Proc. If. S. Nat. Mus., xvii. No. 1028, May 

 11, 1895, pp. 629-630. 

 This paper is based upon eleven examples of 

 Sand Lance, presumably from the North Pa- 

 cific, and part of the Stimpson collections. 



Report on the Department of Fishes 



in the U. S. National Museum, 1892. 



Hep. S')nithsonian Inst. (U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 1892 (1893), pp. 159-161. 



(See also under G. Brown Goode.) 



BEAN, Tarleton H. and Barton A. 

 Description of Gobioidcs broussoneti, 

 a fish new to North America, from the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Proc. TT. ,S. Nat. Mus.,xvu. No. 1029, May 

 11, 1895, pp. 631-632, fig. 1. 



BEESON, Charles H. 



(See under Carl H. Eigenmann.) 



BENDIRE, Charles. Description of nests 

 and eggs of some new birds collected on 

 the Island of Aldabra, northwest of 

 Madagascar, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus., xvil. No. 983, .July 

 19, 1894, pp. 39-41. 



The American Barn Owl breeding at 



Washington, D. C, in winter. 



Auk, XII, No. 2, Apr., 1895, pp. 180-181. 

 Mentions the occurrence of two young birds 

 in the Smithsonian grounds in December and 

 February of 1894 and 1895, respectively. 



Report on the Department of Oology 



in the U. S. National Museum, 1892. 



Pep. Stnithsonian Inst. (U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 1892 (1893), pp. 153-154. 



BENEDICT, .James E. Scientific results 

 of explorations by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer J /&rtfros.s. No. xxxi. — 

 Descriptions of new genera and species 

 of crabs of the family Lithodidte, with 

 notes on the young of Xi//(ofZescam^sc/m<- 

 icus and Lithodes breripes. 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mu.s., xvil. No. 1016, Jan. 

 29, 1895, pp. 479-488. 

 Four new genera and eleven new species are 

 described. They are based on specimens col- 

 lected by tlie steamer Albatross and by Dr. W. 

 H. Dall and Mr. J. G. Swan, chiefly from the 

 North Pacific. 



BIGELOW, Robert Payne. Scientific 

 results of explorations by the U. S. 

 Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 

 No. xxxii. — Report upon the Crus- 

 tacea of the order Stomatopoda col- 

 lected by the steamer J //>afross between 

 1885 and 1891, and on other specimens 

 in the U. S. National Museum. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvii. No. 1017, Feb. 



5, 1895, pp. 489-550, pis. xx-xxil, figs. 



1-28. 

 A comprehensive treatment of the group, 

 with analytical keys to all the genera and 

 species. Detailed descriptions are added of 

 species first described by Dr. Bigelow in Johns 

 Hopkins University Circular, 106, June, 1893, 

 p. 100. Odontodaetylus, there ranked as a sub- 

 genus, is here made a genus. 



BREWSTER, William. Notes on certain 

 Flycatchers of the genus Empidonax. 

 Auk, No. 2, Apr., 1895, pp. 157-163. 

 Empidonax virescens (Vieillot) is shown to 

 be the proper name for the bird long known as 

 E. acadievs (Gnielin), and two other species 

 are affected, in that the name Empidonax 

 traillii is restricted to the one lieretofore known 

 as E. pusillus (Tyrannv.la jtusilla of Swainson 



