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dora, for Polydora concharum V.; Prawillella for Praxilla (pre- 
occupied). The oi i species hitherto referred to Anthostoma 
are referred to Scoloplo 
The following paper relate to the collections made by Mr. 
Agassiz, on the “ Blak 
VIIT, gag aes pn ires sur les Crusiacés. Par A. MiLne- 
warps. I** Partie, viii, [pp. 1-68, 2 pl.], Dee. 29, 1880.— 
Contains brief descriptions of a large number of new genera and 
species of Decapoda. Many of them can scarcely be identified 
without figures. 
— Preliminary Report ~ ~~ Eichini. By A, Aeassiz. 
Vol. viii, [pp. 69-84], Dec., i —Enumerates 45 species, of 
which many are described as n 
—Leport on the shale pean and on some additional 
species dredged by the United States Fish Commission Steamer 
“Fish Hawk,” during the season of 1880, By A. E. VERRILL 
Vol. viii, [pp. 99-116, 8 plates], March, 1881.—This includes 
new ies, viz: © 
descriptions of two new species, vi Lastigoteuthis Ag it, 
en. et sp. nov., Hledone verrucosa. Figures and de ons ar 
also given of Chiroteuthis Bonplandi? [= C. rtosa V., 1881], 
Rossia sublevis, Heteroteuthis tenera, Octopus Bairdii, O. lentus, 
Cheloteuthis ra [=Lestoteuthis Fabricii [=Gonatus 
Fabricii Steenst.], Calliteuthis reversa, Alloposus moll 
— the Acal A. 5 On VI, 
[pp. 127-140, 4 plates], March, 1881.—Contains descriptions of 
several new species of Pluimular ein Sertularella, Lafoéa, and ot 
anew genus, Aglwophenopsis. 
L1L—feport on the Pyenogonida. By E. B. Win 
Vol. viii, [pp. 239-256, 5 plates], March, 1881.—Ten reese are 
recorded. One genus and five species are new. e new species 
“— Preliminary Report on the Mollusca, By W. H. Daxt. 
, [signatures 3-6, pp. 33-96, unfinished], ee to September, 
188 “gine large number of new species an eral new genera 
are Ganstied | in the four signatures received. Among the genera 
eon are Cadulus, Dentalium, Siliquaria, Pedicularia, Margarita, 
Calliostoma, Seguenzia, Basilissa i Ah ra, Callog gaza, nov., 
"Tea noy., Fluxina, nov., Hanle Pleurotoma and its 
subdivisions, Trichotraiie Masinaia, Puncturella, Pleurotoma- 
ria, Haliotis, Crepidula, en Cerithiopsis, Bittium, Colum- 
bella, Natica, Turritella, Actzo 
AVL — Preliminary Report ¢ on the Comatule. By P. Hrr- 
BERT CARPENTER. Vol. ix, [20 pp. 1 all ne 1, 1881.—The 
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group from the Caribbean Sea and West Indies, They belong 
