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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Baetsch, Paul — Continued. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 100, 1, Part 

 1, Sept. 22, 1917, 

 pp. 1-47, pis. 1-22. 

 Treats of the zoogeographic 

 distribution and systematic classi- 

 fication of the Philippine Am- 

 phidromi, embracing the diagno- 

 sis of 9 new species and 13 new 

 subspecies, the types of which, 

 except A. hidalgoi, are in the 

 collections of the National Mu- 

 seum, as well as much additional 

 material. The collections of 

 Philippine Amphidromi of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences, the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, the Philippine 

 Bureau of Science, and of Mr. 

 Walter F. Webb, of Rochester, 

 N. Y., were also included in the 

 preparation of this monograph. 



Report on the marine-boring 



mollusks in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

 Bull. No. 28, Public 

 Works of the Navy. 

 Under the cogni- 

 zance of the Bureau 

 of Yards and Docks 

 and the corps of 

 Civil Engineers, U. 

 S. Navy, Oct., 1917, 

 pp. 48-50, 1 pi. 

 Reports a study of the ship 

 worms of the region about the 

 naval station, Guantanamo Bay, 

 Cuba, and describes one new 

 species, Teredo hnoxi; the type 

 specimen is in the collections 

 of the National Museum. 



A correction. 



Nautilus, 31, No. 2, 

 Oct., 1917, pp. 71, 72. 

 Proposes Cerithiopsis (Ceri- 

 thiopsis) anaitis Bartsch new 

 name for Cerithiopsis (Cerithi- 

 opsis) Helena Bartsch, from 

 Panama, reported in Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 52, pp. 670, 671, pi. 

 46, fig. 2, 1917, and preoccupied 

 by a fossil species of O. Boettger, 

 1901. 



The land mollusks of the genus 



Obba from the islands of Bohol and 



Panglao, Philippine Islands. 



J our n . Washington 

 Acad. Sci., 8, No. 

 1, Jan. 4, 1918, pp. 

 16, 17. 

 Presents a brief critical diag- 

 nosis of four new subspecies be- 

 longing to the genus Obba; 



Babtsch, Paul — Continued. 



these will be more fully reported 

 and figured in a monograph on 

 the Philippine Obbas, which is 

 in preparation. 



Type specimens are in the col- 

 lections of the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



A key to the Philippine sub- 



species of Obba marginata, with notes 

 on their distribution. 



J oum . Washington 

 Acad. Sci., 8, No. 

 3, Feb. 4, 1918, pp. 

 60-63, 

 Give a key to the group of 

 Obba marginata, together with 

 a brief account of the zoogeo- 

 graphic facts presented by ex- 

 isting data. It forms one of a 

 series of synopses of parts of a 

 forthcoming report on the Phil- 

 ippine land shells. Types of 

 the new subspecies reported are 

 in the National Museum. 



— Pirates of the deep — stories of 



the squid and octopus. 



Rep. Smithsonian 



Inst., 1916, Pub. 



No. 2464, Feb. 8, 



1918, pp. 347-375, 



pis. 1-19. 



Presents an historical sketch 



of the Cephalopoda, together with 



an unusual collection of facts 



and fables which have been 



gleaned from many sources and 



interwoven in an illustrated 



deep-sea account. 



The land shells of the genus 



Amphidromus from the islands of 

 the Palawan Passage. 



J our n . Washington 

 Acad. Sci., 8, No. 

 11, June 4, 1918, 

 pp. 361-367. 

 An appendix to the published 

 monograph upon the Philippine 

 members of the genus Amphi- 

 dromus, discussing the complex 

 from the Palawan Passage. 

 When the monograph was pre- 

 pared there was not sufficient 

 material available to enable 

 the author to properly discuss 

 the group here treated. 



Two new species of fossil ma- 



rine shells from California. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 31, June 29, 

 1918, pp. 79, 80. 



