718 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 306. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Chiton laeve. Page 80. Spain. 



According to Linne, this is the same as his 

 Chiton punctatus. Professor Pilsbry , to whom 

 I showed Osbeck's description says it is prob- 

 ably the same as Chiton oUvaoeus Speng. 



CuNNUs CHiNENsis. Page 247. China. 



Osbeck does not state whether this bivalve 

 is a fluviatile or a marine form, which 

 makes his short description valueless. Were 

 it a fresh- water form, the generic name 

 Corbieula would be replaced by Cunnim. In 

 the English translation this name is mis- 

 printed, Conus. 



INSECTA. 



Phalaena FENESTRATA. Page 269. China. 



Osbeck proposes this name for the ' Pha- 

 Isena plumata permaxima Orientalis ocu- 

 lata.' (Petiver, Gazophylacii, PI. 8, f. 7), 

 which, however, was named Phakena atlas 

 by Linne, 1758, Osbeck's name becoming 

 thereby a synonym. The fenestrata Osbeck 

 must not be confused with the Fhalana fen- 

 estrate, Fabricius (Syst. Ent., p. 641, 1775). 



Papilio Lintingensis. Page 148. China. 



This name will have to be adopted for 

 the Indo-Chinese variety of Junonia wnone 

 Linne, known as var. hierta Fabricius. 

 The synonymy should be Junonia cenone 

 Linne, 1758, var. Lintingensis (Osbeck), 1765 

 and 1771, = hierta Fabricius, 1798. 



Apis eufa. Page 127. Java. 



This is not the Apis nifa Linne, 1758. The 

 description is, however, too meager to admit 

 of identification of the insect. 



CRUSTACEA. 



There are two species described by Os- 

 beck, which appear to have been omitted 

 from synonymy. They are : 



Cancer chinensis. Page 151. China. 



Cancer adscensionis. Page 389. As- 

 cension Isld, 



William J. Fox. 



Academy of Natueal Sciences 

 OF Philadelphia. 



THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM PALEONTOLOG- 

 ICAL EXPEDITIONS OF 1900. 



Through the generosity of the founder 

 of this institution, the Department of Pa- 

 leontology has been able to continue the 

 work begun in the season of 1899 in the 

 Upper Jurassic formations of central South- 

 ern Wyoming. Mr. O. A. Peterson has 

 had charge of the work in this region, and 

 the splendid results obtained there are due 

 to his skill and energy and to those of his 

 assistant, Mr. C. W. Gilmore of the Wy- 

 oming State University, who joined Mr. 

 Peterson in June and continued with him 

 until the close of the season. 



The investigations were confined chiefly 

 to the Atlantosaurus beds on Sheep Creek, 

 some twenty-five miles northeast of Med- 

 icine Bow, though some attention was also 

 given to the Baptanodon beds in the im- 

 mediate vicinity. 



The chief results obtained were a com- 

 plete pelvis with sacrum and one hind limb 

 and foot of Diplodocus in position ; one 

 maxilla and a posterior portion of the skull 

 and a number of series of vertebrae from 

 various regions of the vertebral column. 

 Numerous other isolated bones belonging 

 to the same genus were also recovered. 

 All this is most welcome material and will 

 form an important supplement to the Dip- 

 lodocus skeleton collected by the expe- 

 dition of 1899, which we hope soon to be 

 able to mount as a complete, though com- 

 posite, skeleton. The fore limb and foot 

 are at present the only important parts 

 missing. 



The party was quite fortunate in secur- 

 ing the greater portion of a skeleton of 

 Brontosaurus, as well as considerable re- 

 mains of Stegosaurus and a large car- 

 nivorous Dinosaur. The Baptanodon beds 

 yielded a skull and anterior cervicals and 

 ribs of Baptanodon. In all some ninety 

 large cases of Jurassic vertebrates were 

 taken up and packed, and will, it is hoped, 



