Miscellaneous Intelligence. 99 



This report gives a good idea of the activity and effectiveness of 

 the National Museum in research and collections. The appro- 

 priations for the Museum for the given year amounted to 526,500 

 dollars; of special interest is the final completion of the new 

 building on June 20, 1911, just six years after it was started. 



A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages, accompanied 

 with thirty-one Biloxi Texts and numerous Biloxi Phrases ; by 

 James O. Dorsky and John R. Swanton. Pp. v, 340. Bureau 

 of American .Ethnology. Bulletin 47. 



5. British Museum Catalogues. — To the important series of 

 catalogues based upon the collections of the British Museum of 

 Natural History and published by the Trustees, earlier volumes 

 of which have been repeatedly noticed in this Journal, the fol- 

 lowing additions have been recently made : 



Catalogue of the Chiroptera, Second Edition ; by Knud 

 Andersen. Volume I : Megachiroptera. Pp. ci, 854 ; 85 illus- 

 trations. — The first edition of the catalogue of the Chiroptera in 

 the British Museum, b}r G. E. Dobson, was published by the 

 Trustees in 1878. The present exhaustive work is based not only 

 on the largely increased Museum collections, but also on an exam- 

 ination of the chief collections in Europe and also that of the 

 U. S. National Museum at Washington. 



Catalogue of the LepidopteraPhalsenas, Volume XI. Catalogue 

 of the Noctuid;e ; by Sir George F. Hampson. Pp. xvii, 689 ; 

 275 figures. — This eleventh volume of the Catalogue of Moths 

 contains the Noctuid Subfamilies PJuteliance (12 genera, 175 

 species), Stictopterince (10 genera, 112 species), Sarrothripince 

 (58 genera, 330 species) and Acontianm (70 genera, 324 species). 

 Plates CLXXIV-CXCI accompany this volume. 



General Index to a Hand-List of the Genera and Species of 

 Birds. Volumes I-V. Edited by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 

 Pp. iv, 199. — The fifth and final volume of the Hand-list of Birds 

 was completed by the author, the late Dr. Sharpe, shortly before 

 his death in 1909. The present index volume appears as a sup- 

 plement to the work and is essential to its convenient use. 



A Revision of the Ichneumonidse, based on the collections of 

 the British Museum, with descriptions of new genera and species. 

 Part I. Tribes Ophionides and Metopiides ; by Claude Mor- 

 ley. Pp. xi, 88 ; 1 plate. 



6. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh.— -The following parts of Volume II have 

 recently appeared : 



No. 16. On the presence of a Secondary Oscillation in the 

 Orbit of 30 H. Ursae Majoris ; by Frank Schlesinger. Pp. 

 139-150 ; 3 figures. 



No. 16. On the presence of a Secondary Oscillation in the 

 Orbit of Y Ophiuchi ; by Stella Udick. Pp. 151-154. 



7. Href oeh Skrifvelsen af oeh till Carl von Linne. Forsta 

 Afdelningen, Del VI. Stockholm, 1912. — This latest contribu- 

 tion to the series of volumes containing the correspondence of 



