NARRATIVE AND ITINERARY. 9 



able to throw a little light on the vertical distribution of some of the most promi- 

 nent components of the fauna, especially the reptiles and amphibians. 



A word regarding the collections in some other branches of zoology. The 

 series of mammals was small, but contained a single specimen of high interest, 

 the tj^e of a new genus of marsupials of the Peramelidae. It has been called 

 Suillomeles hispida Allen & Barbour (Proc. N. E. zool. club, 1909, 4, p. 43-46, 

 pi. 2-3). A number of other forms were new to the collections of the Museum. 

 Two specimens of Proechidna were added to material already in the Museum, 

 and others have been obtained since. As the Museum now contains skins, 

 specimens in spirits, and complete skeletons, it has an almost unrivalled collec- 

 tion of this interesting form, the anatomy of which is reported by Dr. G. M. 

 Allen (Memoirs M. C. Z., October, I9I2, 40, p. 249-307, 2 plates). 



Nothing of special interest is to be said regarding the small collection of 

 birds. Series of specimens of Paradisea jobiensis, and of Semioptera halmaherae 

 were among the more interesting, in that they were previously unrepresented 

 in the Museum's collections. 



The fishes are as yet unstudied. The collection, however, contains a few 

 cyprinoids from Lombok. Max Weber (Zool. ergeb., 1894, 3, p. 461) has shown 

 that this is one of the families of fresh-water fishes characteristic of continental 

 Asia which are also known to exist throughout the islands as far as Bali. The 

 discovery that a species of this family occurs in Lombok also, is of interest in 

 connection with the question as to the importance of the Lombok-Bali boundary 

 established by Wallace. 



An account of the collection of Echinodermata has been written by Dr. 

 Hubert Lyman Clark (Bull. M. C. Z., 1908, 51, p. 279-311). Miss Mary J. 

 Rathbun has also reported on the decapod Crustacea (Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, 

 p. 305-317, pi. 1-6). 



The insects are as yet incompletely sorted; the ethnologic objects are on 

 exhibition in the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 

 in Cambridge. 



In conclusion, my deepest thanks are due, first of all, to Messrs. Alan W. 

 Pim and Frank B. Sherring, of the Indian Civil Service, who aided most kindly 

 and efficiently in making collections over a large part of the trip; to H. E. Lieut. 

 Gen. van Heutz, late Governor-General of Dutch India; to the late Professor 

 M. Treub, Director of Agriculture; to Major P. A. Ouwens, of the Zoological 

 museum at Buitenzorg; to Dr. J. C. Koningsberger; and to Dr. P. N. van 

 Kampen, also of the Department of Agriculture. All these gentlemen laid me 



