158 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Stejnegee, Leonhard. Description of 

 a new snapping turtle and a new 

 lizard from Florida. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 31, June 29, 

 1918, pp. 89-92. 

 The types of both species are 

 in the National Museum. 



Nomenclatorial notes on milk 



snakes. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 31, June 29, 

 1918, p. 99. 

 Explains the omission of the 

 old well-known names Lampro- 

 peltis doliata, coccinea, and an- 

 nulata from Stejneger and Bar- 

 bour's check list. 



and Thomas Barbour. A check 



list of North American amphibians 

 and reptiles. 



II a r v a r d University 

 Press, Cambridge, 

 Dec. 12, 1917, pp. 

 1-125. 



Stejneger, Leonhard, and Thomas 

 Barbour — Continued. 



Besides giving the systematic 

 names of all the species and sub- 

 species known to occur in North 

 America, north of the Rio 

 Grande, and in Lower Califor- 

 nia, the citation of original ap- 

 pearance of specific names is 

 given for all, with the citation 

 of the first appearance of the 

 systematic name in its present 

 combination. References are 

 added to Cope's North American 

 Batrachia and to his Crocodil- 

 ians, Lizards and Snakes of 

 North America, both publica- 

 tions of the National Museum. 

 Vernacular names in well-estab- 

 lished usage are given, also the 

 type localities of species, as well 

 as their geographical distribu- 

 tion. 



FISHES. 



ElGENMANN, CARL II. 



Characidae. 



The American 



Memoirs Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 43, part 1, 

 pp. 3-102, pis. 1-8, 

 12, 14-16, 95, 98, 

 100, and 101. 

 A revision of the American 

 characinoid fishes, based on col- 

 lections in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Indiana Uni- 

 versity, Carnegie Museum, and 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



Evermann, Barton Warren, and 

 Lewis Radcliffe. The fishes of the 

 west coast of Peru and the Titicaca 

 Basin. 



Bull. V. 8. "Nat. Mus., 

 95, Aug. 1, 1917, 

 pp. i-xi, 1-166, pis. 

 1-14. 

 Based primarily upon a col- 

 lection of 120 species of fishes, 

 12 of which are described as 

 new, made by Dr. R. E. Coker 

 during an investigation of the 

 fisheries and fishery resources of 

 Peru. The total list is 187 

 species. 



Gilbert, Charles H.. and Carl Hubbs. 

 Description of Hymenocephalus ten- 



Gilbert, Charles H., and Carl 

 Hubbs — Continued, 

 uis, a new macruroid fish from the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 54, No. 2231, Dec. 

 14, 1917, pp. 173- 

 175. 

 Description based upon a sin- 

 gle example, 75 mm. long, 

 dredged off the southern coast 

 of Oahu, Albatross station 3920, 

 at a depth of 265 to 280 fath- 

 oms. 

 Ginsburg, Isaac. On two species of 

 fishes from the Yalu River, China. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 54, No. 2228, Oct. 

 18, 1917, pp. 99- 

 101. 

 Notices Acanthogobio longv- 

 roatris of Regan, placing it un- 

 der the genus Hemibarbus, and 

 contains a description of Rliino- 

 gobius sowerbyi, a new species 

 of Goby, named for the collector, 

 Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby. 

 Hubbs, Carl. (See under Charles H. 



Gilbert.) 

 Kendall, William Converse. The 

 Rangeley Lakes, Me. ; with special 

 reference to the habits of the fishes, 

 fish culture, and angling. 



