192 



Fishes 



By Purchase 



6 Argonauta Mans, showing animal 

 and shell; 6 Inioteuthis morsei, 

 Misaki ; i Jar containing the devel- 

 opment of Loligo membranaceus, 

 snowing stages and embryo ; 2 Ar- 

 gonauta hians beyrichi, with animal, 

 Japan; 3 Argonauta oweni. 



6 Specimens of Paludina melanoides, 

 8 specimens Tulotoma, 3 species, 26 

 specimens of Melamas, 8 specimens 

 of Lymn&a suimhcei, China. 



70 Specimens Japanese shell-work, 

 useful, artistic, and toys. 



I Voluta irvingi from West Australia ; 

 1 Voluta kingi from Tasmania; 1 

 Voluta roadnightce from Victoria, 

 Australia. 



3 Shell Necklaces (aboriginal), Tas- 

 mania; 3 shell Baskets from the 

 Bahama Islands. 



By Exchange 



Maxwell Smith, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

 About 150 specimens of Land shells 

 from North America, fully localized 

 and named, including Oreohelix, 

 Ashmunella, Polygyra, Planorbis. 



W. H. Weeks, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Large Voluta roadnightce, South Aus- 

 tralia; series of Marine shells, num- 

 bering 402 specimens. 



DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY 

 AND HERPETOLOGY 



FISHES 



By Gift 



W. L. Brind, New York City. 



II Foreign aquarium fishes. 



Barnum Brown, New York City. 

 30 Pceciliid fishes, Banos de Ciego 

 Montero, 30 kilometers west of 

 Cienfuegos, Cuba. 



Russell J. Coles, Danville, Va. 

 Set of Whip-ray teeth. 



Otto Degener, New York City. 

 1 Boleosoma nigrum (Darter), Ber- 

 gen Co., N. J. 



H. Haupt, Jr., South Haven, Mich. 

 15 Small fishes, 10 Silver-sided Min- 

 nows {Notropis atherinoides) , 

 South Haven, Mich. 



R. G. Hazard, Peace Dale, R. I. 

 Lophius jaw, Pt. Judith, R. I. 

 Roy Latham, Orient, L. I. 



43 Long Island fishes, Orient, L. I. 

 A. Lord, New York City. 



1 Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias), 

 Hudson River. 

 William Mack, New York City. 

 Five fancy Goldfish (Carassius au- 

 ratus). 

 Leo E. Miller, New York City. 



12 Fragments of Characin dentition, 

 San Juan River, Colombia. 

 Robert C. Murphy, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Young Chcetodon ocellatus, Long 

 Beach, N. Y. 

 New York Aquarium, New York City. 

 1 New fish, to be called Eques granti, 

 Key West, Fla. 

 Henry Thurston, New York City. 

 Prionotus strigatus skeleton, Ocean 



Beach, L. I. 

 Young Scad in alcohol, skeletons of 

 Silver Hake and Sea Robin, Fire 

 Island Beach, N. Y. 

 H. S. Trull, New York City. 

 Balanced aquarium containing one 

 Girardinus guppii. 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 25 Sculpins, Myoxocephalus, Maine. 



By Purchase 



11 Specimens of fish bearing nodules, 

 from the Waverly of Junction City, 

 Boone Co., Ky. 



2 Catfish, 60 fresh-water fishes and 

 io cyprinid fishes, Yunnan-fu, China. 



Several fishes from Japan, purchased 

 by Dr. Dean. 



Through Museum Expeditions 



1 Bottle of Sleeper-shark oil. Col- 

 lected by W. Elmer Ekblaw, Crocker 

 Land Expedition. 



5 Shark jaws and 50 small fishes, in- 

 cluding one undescribed Gobiesox, 

 Florida Keys. Collected by J. T. 

 Nichols. 



35 Fishes from Fu-kien Province, 

 China, including 2 new species. 

 Collected by Roy C. Andrews. 



