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Publications
THE following are new publications of the Bishop Museum, of Honolulu:— By H Bumngton Baker: “Zomtid Snails from Pacific Islands, part 2.
Hawaiian Genera of Microcystinae.”
Bishop Museum Bulletin 165, pp. 105- 201, 21 plates, Jan. 20. 1940. A mono graphic study of three genera of land shells found distributed from Hawaii to Rapa, including the Marquesas, Tua motu, and Society groups. They are Philonesia, Kaala, and Hiona, the last two new to science. Fifty-six species and eleven sub-species are described as new.
Descriptions and keys are given to 87 species, 2 varieties, and 11 sub-species.
By C. F. C. Beeson: “Scolytidae and Platypodidae of the Mangarevan Exne dition ” Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, Vol 15 No 18 pages 191-203 2
figs January ’lO i94o’ The entomoio
gist of the Forest Research Institute Dehra Dun, India, records one species of Platypodidae and 16 species of Scoly tidae from beetle material collected in south-eastern Polynesia by the Manga revan Expedition. Nine species are de scribed as new to science. It is inter esting that two of these new species are found in India and Malaya, one being distributed from there to Henderson Is.
Bv W. R. Coe: “Notes on the mor phology and sexuality of the terrestrial Nemertean, Geonemertes palaensis.”
Bishop Museum. Occasional Papers, Vol.
“• 1 19 ' 4 'S 2 M1,3 ngs. Jan. 10, 1940. A world authority on ttiGSG unsegmented worms presents detailed aescnptions and comparisons based on
By F - R - Fosberg: “Notes on Micro nesian Rubiaceae.” Bishop Museum, Pa PJJ rs > Vol. 15, Na 20, P a S es itt 1 ? 1 t 194 An authority on the coffee family in the Pacific lists 42 species and 7 varieties from the Palau, Caroline and Mariana Islands, based on specimens in the Bishop Museum and New York Botanical Gardens. He makes various new combinations of names and described 5 new varieties. A kev is given to the species of Ixora in the region. No reason is seen for placing Micronesian species of Pyschottfa in the genus Amaracarpus.
Occasional Papers
Vol. XV., No. 16; pages 175-178, 1 fig., December 22, 1939. By Harold St. John and F - Ra ymond Fosberg. “A new var iety of Ru PPia maritima (Ruppiaceae) from the tropical Pacific.” Variety Paci fica 15 described for this “sea-grass” or “ditch-grass”, with one form found in Hawaii and Niuafoou Island, and one in Philippines.
Vol. XV., No. 17; pages 179-189 5 figs December, 1939. By Kenneth P. Emory: “Additional notes on the archaeology of Fanning Island.” Notes were given con cerning this subject in Emory’s “Archae ology of the Pacific Equatorial Islands”
Bishop Museum Bulletin 123 1934 Another visit to Fanning in April 1934’ makes possible more exact descriptions °f stone ruins and also of four basalt adzes and a shell fish hook. These all suggest that the igand was visited by W at the (Reviewed by E. H. Bryan. Jr.. Curator of Collections, Bishop Museum).