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KEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912. 



Stejneger, Leonhakd. Description of a 

 new amphisbsenoid lizard from Peru. 

 Proe. U. S. Nat. Miis., 

 41, No. 1856, July 

 15, 1911, pp. 283, 

 284. 

 AmphisbcBna townsendi de- 

 scribed as a new species. 



Stejneger, Leonhard. Descriptions 

 of three new batrachians from 

 Costa Rica and Panama. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 



41, No. 1857, Aug. 



14, 1911, pp. 285- 



288. 



Spelcrpcs picadoi and Gas- 



trotheca coronata, from Costa 



Rica, and Hyla ceratophrys, 



from Panama, described as new 



species. 



FISHES. 



BuBKE, Charles Victor. (See under 

 diaries Henry Gilbert.) 



Gilbert, Charles Henry, and Charles 

 Victor Burke. Fishes from Bering 

 Sea and Kamchatka. 



Bull. Bur. Fisheries, 



30, No. 754, May 6, 



1912, pp. 31-96, flgs. 



1-37. 



This paper records a very 



interesting collection of fisiies 



made by tlie U. S. Fisheries 



steamer "Albatross " in Bering 



Sea and along a portion of the 



► coast of Kamchatka in 1906. 



Forty-three species are described 



as new, 8 of which represent 



new genera. 



Jordan, David Starr, and William 

 Francis Thompson. A review of 

 the Sparidfe and related families of 

 perch-like fishes found in the waters 

 of Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 41, No. 1875, Jan. 

 22, 1912, pp. 521- 

 601, figs. 1-15. 

 This paper is based on mate- 

 rial collected in .Japan in 1900 

 by Profs. Jordan and Snyder 

 and is a review of species be- 

 longing to the families Kuhliidse, 

 Priacanthidae, Theraponida^, 

 Banjosidse, Hsemulidse, Sparidse, 

 Kyphosidae, and Erythrlchthyi- 

 dse. 



Kendall, Wm. C, and Lewis Rad- 

 CLiTFE. Reports on the scientific re- 

 sults of the expedition to the eastern 

 tropical Pacific, in charge of Alex- 

 ander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer "Albatross," 

 from October, 1904, to March, 1905, 

 Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, 



Kendall, Wm. C, and Lewis Rad- 

 CLiFFE — Continued. 

 U. S. Navy, commanding. XXV. 

 The shore fishes. 



Memoirs Mus. Comp. 

 ZooL, 35, No. 3, 

 Apr., 1912, pp. 77- 

 171, pis. 1-8. 

 This paper is based on col- 

 lections made by the steamer 

 "Albatross " on an exploration 

 extending along the shores of 

 Mexico, Panama Bay, Galapagos 

 Islands, and the shores of 

 Easter Island, Manga Reva, and 

 from dredge hauls taken along 

 the coast from southern Cali- 

 fornia to Peru and in the open 

 seas en route to the above men- 

 tioned island groups. Represen- 

 tatives of 55 families, 227 spe- 

 cies, are listed, the following 

 being here described as new 

 forms : Raja aguja, Kuhlia 

 nutahunda, Oirella nehulosa, 

 Eques fuscovittatus, Gillelus 

 rubeUulus and Enneapterygius 

 coralUcola. 



R.vDCLiFFE, Lewis. Notes on some 

 fishes of the genus Amia, family of 

 Cheilodipteridse, with descriptions of 

 four new species from the Philip- 

 l)ine Islands. [Scientific results of 

 the Philippine cruise of the Fish- 

 eries steamer "Albatross," 1907- 

 1910.— No. 12.] 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



41, No. 1853, July 



15, 1911, pp. 245- 



261, pis. 20-25, figs. 



1-3. 



This paper is a revision of 



the small group of striped 



forms comprised in the genus 



Amia (family Cheilodipteridse). 



Amia compressa, A. angustata, 



A. rob Ms/o, and A. versicolor are 



described as new, and extended 



