Pacific

Scientific Check Over Pacific Records of Bishop Museum, Honolulu

THE following list of publications by the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in 1939, have been kindly supplied to us by Mr. E. H. Bryan, who is Curator of Collections on the staff of the Museum.

Bulletins

BULLETIN 142.—Marquesan Insects, 111. Pacific Entomological Survey Pub lication 8. 220 pages, 120 figures. Pre sents 25 technical articles by insect spe cialists. These have to do principally with Myriopoda, Neuroptera, spiders, certain groups of beetles, craneflies, scale insects, small' land ichneumon wasps, and Mirid bugs.

BULLETIN 159.—Review of the fauna of the Marquesas Islands and discussion on its origin. By A. M. Adamson. 93 pp , 2 maps, May 24, 1939. Discusses the extent of biological exploration on Cen tral Pacific Islands and various biogeo graphical theories as to the dispersal of plant and animal life on them. De scribes geography, geology, climate and flora of the Marquesas, and reviews the fauna, its endemism and affinities. Sug gests alternate theories of the origin of the fauna, based on the assumption of past land connections and on trans oceanic dispersal. Urges the aban donment of the zoogeographical schemes in which Oceania is considered a subregion of the Australasian region.

Proposes a “Mid-Pacific faunal group”, with affinities with Hawaii and ulti mate relationship with the Indo-Malay region, and almost none with the Neo tropical region or New Zealand. Ex tensive bibliography and index.

BULLETIN 163.—Archaeology of Man gareva and neighbouring atolls. By Kenneth P. Emory. 76 pages, 6 plates, 28 figures. Ancient ruins on Manga reva have been so destroyed that little archaeological information could be obtained by K. P. Emory, who with Dr.

Peter H. Buck, spent several weeks on islands of the Gambler Group in 1934.

On the island of Temoe (Crescent Island), 25 miles to the south-east, were found stone structures of better preser vation, which made possible a recon struction of the ancient Mangarevan culture, for they were made in pre- European times by settlers from Man gareva. Comparisons are also made with archaeological remains on South Marutea, Maria, Morane, and other atolls to the west of Mangareva, which suggest that they were “in the path of the Mangarevans who set out on rafts or in canoes before the prevailing winds when forced to quit their home.”

BULLETIN 164.—Report of the Direc tor for 1938. By Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). 32 pages, map. De scribes the activities of the staff, and lists the accessions and publications for the year.

Two additional bulletins in preparation at the end of last year were;— BULLETIN 160.—Ethnology of Easter Island. By Alfred Metraux, who was the leader of the Franco-Belgian Expe dition to Easter Island, 1934-35, and re ports upon the ethnological results of that expedition.

BULLETIN 165.—Zonitid Snails from the Pacific Islands. Part 11. By H.

Burrington Baker. This paper com pletes the Microcystinae and takes up

three genera of Philonesiae which range from the Hawaiian Islands through the Marquesas, Tuamotu, and Society Is lands to Rapa in the Australs.

Occasional Papers

VOL. XIV. —No. 14.—Fouling organisms in Hawaii. By Charles Howard Edmond son and William Marcus Ingram.

No. 15.— Revision of the Fijian Otti strini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). By Elwood C. Zimmerman.

No 16—A new species of Byttneria from Mangareva. By E. D. Merrill. (Mangarevan Expedition Publication 29).

A new plant of the family Sterculiaceae.

No 17 —The genus Phanerostethus in Fiji (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). By El wood C. Zimmerman.

No is.—Cypraeidae from Makatea Island, Tuamotu Archipelago. By Wil liam M. Ingram. (Enumerates 23 species of cowrie shells).

No. 19—Endemic Hawaiian Cowries, By William M. Ingram. (Five out of 29 species of Cypraea found in Hawaii are endemic).

No. 20. —Preliminary revision of the Fijian Baridinae (Coleoptera, Curculio nidae). By Elwood C. Zimmerman.

No. 21.—Santalum ellipticum, a restate ment of Gaudichaud’s species. By Frank E. Eiger.

VOL. XV.—No. 1. —New Hawaiian spe cies of Clermontia. including a revision of the Clermontia grandiflora group.

Hawaiian Plant Studies 6. By Harold St. John. (Hawaiian tree lobelias).

No. 2.—New Hawaiian Lobeliaceae.

Hawaiian Plant Studies 7. By Harold St.

John.

No. 3 Notes on Polynesian grasses. By F. R. Fosberg. Discusses species of Era grostis and Digitaria found on leeward Hawaiian and Equatorial Pacific Islands, and records a species of Paspalum new to Hawaii.

No. 4. —Taxonomy of the Hawaiian genus Broussaisia (Saxifragaceae). By F.

R. Fosberg. Reviews the history and classification of this endemic Hawaiian genus of large shrubs and small trees; presents a key, and enumerates and de scribes one species, two varieties, and five forms.

No. 5. —Bees from the Caroline and Palau Islands and Yap. (Hymenop tera, Apoidea). By T. D. A. Cockerell.

Micronesian Expedition Pub. 2. Records the bees collected by the Micronesian Ex pedition, nine species in all, of which four are described as new to science.

No. 6. —Reports on fossil Mollusca of Molokai and Maui. By Jens Mathias Ostergaard. Presents a record of the sea shells found in ten limestone horizons between 10 and 195 feet above present sea level on Molokai, and others on Maui.

The great uniformity of species indicates that the marine deposits of the various horizons are nearly of the same age, and implies a comparatively rapid change in the relation of land to sea. Late Pleis tocene is suggested as the geologic time.

No. 7.—New or interesting ferns from Micronesia, Fiji, and Samoa. By E. B.

Copeland.

No. B. —Supplement to the Manual of Hawaiian Mosses. By Edwin B. Bart

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No. 9. —The genus Ficus in the Samoan Islands. By V. S. Summerhayes. A botanist at Kew Gardens straightens out the Samoan figs.

No. 10. —Diospyros ferra (Ebenaceae) in Hawaii. By F. R. Fosberg.

No. 11.—Studies of the Pacific bees in the collection of Bishop Museum. By T.

D. A. Cockerell.

No. 12. —Thysanoptera collected by the Mangarevan Expedition. By Dudley Moulton. Species of thrips from south eastern Polynesia.

No. 14.—A new species of Zoraptera from Fiji. By Ashley Gurney.

Special Publications

No. 33.—Proceedings of the Hawaiian Academy of Science. Thirteenth Annual Meeting, 1937-38, 28 pages.

No. 34. —Proceedings of the Hawaiian Academy of Science. Fourteenth Annual Meeting, 1938-39.

Mrs. Bowering, well known resident of Edie Creek. New Guinea, will return to the Territory by air mail towards the end of this month.