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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



COQUILLETT, D. W. Notes on Culex 

 nigritulus. 



Ent. News, XV, Feb., 1904, p. 73. 

 Shows that the form occurring in this coun- 

 try and heretofore referred to this European 

 species is evidently distinct, and proposes the 

 name Cnk.e salinarius for our species. 



Dipterafrom southern Texas, with 



descriptions of new species. 



Journ. N. V. Ent. Soc, xn, Mar., 1904, pp. 

 31-35. 

 Gives a list of 8 previously described species 

 collected by Mr. Charles Schaefferat Browns- 

 ville, Tex., not before reported as occurring 

 in the United States, and describes 9 new 

 species from the same region and obtained 

 by the same collector. 



A new Ceratopogon from Brazil. 



Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xn, Mar., 1904, pp. 

 35, 36. 

 Describes as new Ceratopogon guttatus. 



New diptera from Central Amer- 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., VI, May 18, 1904, pp. 

 90-98. 

 Describes 2 new genera and 18 new species. 



— New diptera from India and Aus- 



tralia. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, 1904, pp. 137-140. 

 Describes 5 species as new. 



COVILLE, Frederick Vernon. [Plants 

 used in Basketry.] 



Rep. Smithsonian lust. (U.S.Nat. Mas.), 

 1902 (1904), pp. 199-214, pis. iv, V, Vll-x. 

 This paper is embraced in a larger work on 

 Basketry by Prof. O. T. Mason. 



Wokas: a primitive food of the 



Klamath Indians. 



Rep. Smithsonian Inst. (U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 1902 (1904), pp. 725-739, pis. i-xiii. 



COVILLE, Frederick Vernon, and 



McDOUGAL, D. T. Desert botanical 



laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. 



Pub. Carnegie Inst., No. 6, Wash., 1903, 



pp. 1-15, pis. i-xxviii. 



CURRIE, Rolla Patteson. An insect- 

 collecting trip to British Columbia. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, No. 1, Jan., 1904, 

 pp. 24-37. 

 An account of the expedition of Dr. H. G. 

 Dyar, Mr. A. N. Caudell, and the author to 

 the Kootenay District of British Columbia in 

 the summer of 1903, with a general description 

 of the region and of the particular localities 

 where collections were made. The paper is 

 intended as a preface to subsequent detailed 

 reports, by different specialists, upon the 

 various groups of insects represented in the 

 collections. 



CURRIE, Rolla Patteson. Notes on 

 some Hemerobiidas from Arizona and 

 California. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, No. 2, Apr., 1904, 

 pp. 79-81. 

 Treats of a small collection of Hemerobii- 

 dse made by Mr. H. S. Barber during the 

 spring and summer of 1903. Two new species 

 are described, viz, Hemerobius bistrigatus, from 

 Little River, Humboldt County, California, 

 and H. pallescens, from Fieldbrook, Humboldt 

 County, California. 



Henierobiidc'e from the Kootenay 



District of British Columbia. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., VI, No. 2, Apr., 1904, 

 pp. 81-90. 

 Lists twelve species, collected by Messrs. 

 H. G. Dyar, A. N. Caudell, the author, and 

 others during the summer of 1903. Of these, 

 rive are described as new, viz, Hemerobius 

 dyari, II. kokanceanus, II. caudell i, II. glacial is, 

 and H. kootenay ensis. A key, for aid in deter- 

 mining the British Columbia species of Hem- 

 erobius, is included. 



DALL, William Healey. Synopsis of 

 the family Astartidae, with a review of 

 the American species. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, No. 1342, July 

 10, 1903, pp. 933-951, plates Lxn, lxiii. 



A synopsis, <>n the lines of the synopsis of 

 the Carditacea, reviewing the classification 

 of the family and the nomenclature of the 

 species found on the Atlantic and Pacific 

 ei lasts of America. 



The following new species are named and 

 figured: Astdrte polaris, A. alaskensis, A. ben- 

 netti, A. soror, A. mbaequilatera var. whit* ■ 

 avesii, A.liogona and A. vernicosa, all from 

 the boreal regions; Venericardia crassidem 

 Broderip and Sowerby, is reinstated and 

 figured for the first time. Some new species 

 of Carditacea, etc., described in the review of 

 that group are for the first time figured, as 

 follows: \fenericardia armilla, I", moniliata, 

 V. gouldii, V. incisa, V. alaskana, and V. 

 V( ntricosa. The following species are for the 

 first time figured: Crania patagonica, Crassa- 

 teUitesbrasilu nsis, < 'n neUa megas, Echinochama 

 californica, Limop&is panamensis, Cetoconcha 

 scapha, of Dall, Astarte compacta Carpenter, 

 and Astartt esquimalti Baird. 



In a footnote attention is called to the fact 

 that the name Miodon Carpenter, preoccupied 

 by Dumeril for a fish, has been replaced by 

 Miodontisciis Dall; and for Acus, a subgenus 

 of Terebra, also preoccupied, the name Oxy- 

 meris Dall is now proposed. 



The Grand Gulf formation. 



Science mew series), xvm, No. 446, July 



17. 1903, pp. 83-85. 

 A discussion of the proper application of 

 this name to a geological formation of the 

 Southern States. 



