MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 31 



REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS AND WORMS. 



By Ralph V. Chamberlin. 



The first seven weeks after March 1, when I became a member 

 of the Museum staff, were devoted to field work in parts of Cali- 

 fornia and Arizona, a careful study of the myriopod and arachnid 

 fauna of Santa Cruz Island and of the opposite mainland being a 

 special object. The trip was wholly successful, yielding important 

 new information on the distribution of the myriopods, and adding 

 to the collections numerous new and little known forms. 



The remaining time was devoted chiefly to studying, relabeling, 

 and arranging the extensive material in several divisions of the 

 Lithobiomorpha, contributed in the main from my own collec- 

 tions. In connection with this work two re visional papers, pre- 

 viously under way, were completed. Brief field trips to different 

 parts of Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire added 

 considerably to the known New England myriopod fauna. 



The collection of West Indian myriopods was considerably 

 increased through the material obtained by Mr. W. M. Mann in 

 Haiti, and through donations by Dr. Thomas Barbour, Dr. W. A. 

 Hilton, and Mr. C. T. Ramsden of specimens from Cuba, and by 

 Mr. C. T. Brues of specimens from Jamaica. A valuable collec- 

 tion from Forrester Island, Alaska, was contributed by Prof. 

 Harold Heath and Mr. Ronald W. Heath. For important addi- 

 tions from other localities, the Museum is under obligations to the 

 following persons:' — Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant, Drs. C. C. Adams, 

 Thomas Barbour, T. D. A. Cockerell, W. A. Hilton, A. G. Ruggles, 

 W. M. Wheeler, and to Messrs. J. H. Emerton, W. M. Mann, 

 A. P. Morse, and P. W. Whiting. Profitable exchanges were made 

 with Professor Ribaut of the University of Toulouse. 



Publications. March 1-July 31, 1913. 



Notes on Chilopoda from the Galapagos Islands. Ent. news, March 



1913, 24, p. 121-123. 

 Place and personal names of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Proc. 



Amer. philos. soc, April, 1913, 52, p. 1-20. 



