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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FOURTH SERIES
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SAN FRANCISCO
PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION
Georce C. Epwarps, Chairman
C. E. Grunsky BARTON WARREN EVERMANN, Editor
CONTENTS OF VOLUME X
PLATES 1-9
Title-page
Contents ........
(Published August 6, 1920)
Description of a New Species of Rattlesnake (Crotalus lucasensis) from
Lower California, by John VanDenburgh) nee
(Published August 6, 1920)
Description of a New Subspecies of Boa (Charina hott@ utahensis) from
Witahy by. JiohmVia nD er vir ba see tect sen a erane st eesaeaaeae
(Published August 6, 1920)
Description of a New Lizard (Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis) from
Lower California, by, Johni-Vian Denburgh®. acon
(Published August 6, 1920)
Undescribed Tipulidze (Diptera) from Western North America, by
Charles P. Alexander
(Published August 6, 1920)
Three New Species of Dolichopodide (Diptera) from California and
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(Published August 6, 1920)
Two New Species of Syrphide (Diptera), by A. L. Lovett.......................-
(Published August 6, 1920)
Notes on Some Undescribed Californian Helices, by S. Stillman Berry...
(Published August 11, 1920)
A New Genus and Species of Grasshopper from California, by Morgan
Le Dy 2a ch esac a eR ae Se a
(Published December 29, 1920)
Color Changes and Structure of the Skin of Anolis carolinensis, by
@brarles@ByyivomllGel der raster esc cce eames cece as Sas ane evn cea sata
(Published February 12, 1921)
Report of the President of the Academy for the Year 1920, by C. E.
CERIN SRS SR Ge ee a Ce ere RE ee Be
(Published July 2, 1921)
Report of the Director of the Museum for the Year 1920, by Barton
VEN Ol Ud Onda Fee NOVO ese teeta ar ae oe SS a RU Th es eS Soe eco ee
(Published July 2, 1921)
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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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A FURTHER STUDY OF VARIATION IN THE
GOPHER-SNAKES OF WESTERN NORTH
AMERICA
BY
JOHN VAN DENBURGH
Curator, Department of Herpetology
In August of last year the writer and Joseph R. Slevin pub-
lished the results of a study of some three hundred specimens
of Pituophis from western North America’. Probably no one
who has not undertaken such a study can realize the amount of
time and effort necessary for gathering, analyzing, digesting,
and formulating the data derived from such a mass of material
as was involved in our earlier study of the garter-snakes of the
genus Thamnophis. The time and effort expended were so
great that in the subsequent study of Pitwophis the attempt was
made to reach conclusions without so much attention to detail.
The result was that, while the conclusions reached were valu-
able and probably correct, as far as they went, they never have
been satisfactory as a solution of the problems in variation and
distribution offered by this genus. Further study of the data
published in that paper indicated the probability that the snakes
1The Gopher-Snakes of Western North America. <Proc, Cal. Acad. Sci., 4th Ser.,
vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 197-220, pls. 11-13, August 21, 1919.
August 6, 1920
2 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 4TH Ser.
we had regarded as one subspecies, and called Pituophis caten-
ifer annectens, were not all alike, but represented several cen-
ters of geographic variation. It has seemed important to deter-
mine whether this actually is so, and whether conclusions more
satisfactory than those published could be attained by further
study of the group.
Such study required additional data. The color patterns of
these snakes had not been considered in our former investiga-
tion for the reason that published records seemed to show so
much variation as to render them valueless as a means of clas-
sification. Investigation of them now, however, shows that
they do afford valuable data. Individual variation is great, but
so are the average differences found in several geographic
areas. The whole subject has been reopened, and the results of
additional study are given in the present paper.
Reverting to the former paper, it may be recalled that it was
there shown that the gopher-snakes of western North America
may be divided into two groups by the number of their gastro-
steges. This is indicated in the following diagram, figure 1, in
which the upper curve represents the gastrostege counts in the
snakes we called Pituophis catenifer catenifer, while the lower
curve shows the same data concerning those regarded as Pituo-
phis catenifer annectens:
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As one proceeds south and east from the cool north coast
regions toward the warm south coast and interior desert
regions, the average counts gradually increase. Although the
transition is gradual, these gastrostege counts are of great use
in the separation of these snakes into the two groups which we
then regarded as two subspecies.
This same difference and relationship are shown when the
combined gastrostege and urostege counts are charted for the
two groups, as has been done in figure 2. In this chart the
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ifer annectens, and the lower curve (3) the same counts for P.
P. catentfer catenifer, the middle curve (2) those for P. caten-
vertebralis,
upper curve (1) represents the counts in the snakes we called
That there is a very real difference between the
Turning now to a consideration of the number of dorsal
blotches between the head and tail (at a point over the anus)
first group and the others is evident.
we find that the snakes which have fewer gastrosteges are not
all alike.
Those from near the coast have more blotches than
The same is true of the snakes with
those from the interior.
The coast snakes have more
more numerous gastrosteges.
Figure 3
numerous blotches than those from the interior.
snakes
shows the number of blotches on the body in gopher
from several geographical areas.
The upper two curves (1
and 2) represent the snakes with fewer gastrosteges,
called Pituophis catenifer catenifer.
which we
The upper
California.
It will be seen that there
The second curve (2) shows the number of blotches in the
curve (1) represents the snakes from the coast valleys and
snakes of this group from the Klamath-
ranges from Oregon to Santa Barbara County,
is a marked difference between these two curves.
, the
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and the northern portions of the San Joaquin. The difference
between these two curves points to the necessity of recognizing
two subspecies here, a coast race, P. catenifer catenifer, and an
interior race, P. catenifer heermannt.
The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth curves charted in this
figure 3 represent respectively snakes (3) from the San Diegan
Fauna, (4) from the desert regions of California, the southern
San Joaquin Valley and Nevada, (5) from Utah, and (6)
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from Arizona. Curve 3 shows that the snakes from the coast
of southern California have more blotches than those of any of
the other regions where the gastrosteges are numerous. In this
respect these snakes are like those from the northern coast, P.
catenifer catenifer, from which, however, they differ in other
respects. The difference between these snakes and those repre-
sented by the other curves necessitates recognition as a distinct
subspecies, P. catenifer annectens, using this name in a re-
stricted sense.
Vor. X] VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 5
The sixth curve, representing the snakes of Arizona, also
shows marked difference from all of the others of this group.
The number of blotches is much reduced and is similar to that
found in Pituophis vertebralis, shown in the seventh curve. It
would seem that the Arizona snakes also are entitled to sub-
specific rank.
This leaves curves 4 and 5, which agree with each other and
with curve 2. Bearing in mind the fact that the snakes of
curve 2 (P. c. hcermanni) belong to the group having fewer
gastrosteges, it seems necessary to regard those represented by
curves 4 and 5 as deserving separate standing.
It will be shown later that the snakes of Utah (curve 5)
differ from those represented by curve 4. For the latter, the
name P. catenifer deserticola would seem to be available.
The number of blotches on the tail in these various races has
been charted in figure 4. The same differences and relation-
ships as are indicated by the blotches on the body are shown
by these data.
Turning now to a consideration of the scale-rows we find that
the greatest number present on the body, although subject to
great individual variation, also shows geographic variation.
This is brought out in figure 5. Curves 1 and 2, representing
P. c. catenifer and P. c. heermanni, agree in showing 31 rows
as the most frequent number. The Arizona specimens (curve
6) and those of P. c. annectens (3), and P. c. deserticola (4)
agree, and show 33 as the most frequent number. P. verte-
bralis (curve 7) stands by itself in having 35 rows as the usual
number. At the other extreme stand the Utah (curve 5) speci-
mens, of which only 25 per cent have as many as 31 rows, while
the majority have only 29. These Utah snakes are thus quite
different from typical P. c. deserticola.
In figure 6 are charted the number of urosteges in specimens
of these several races. Curves | and 3 are of interest as show-
ing that P. c. annectens (3) usually has more urosteges than
P. c. catenifer or any of the other races. Curve 4 indicates a
reduction in the number of urosteges in P. c. deserticola as com-
pared with Utah specimens and P. c. heermanni.
In work upon groups such as this, where individual variation
is so great as almost to conceal geographic differences, I have
found that the latter may be thrown into greater relief by what
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I have called a summation of characters. Individual variation
in any one specimen rarely affects greatly all of the characters
involved in geographic variation. Therefore, by adding to-
gether, or subtracting various characters showing geographic
differences, the factors of individual variation are proportion-
ally reduced or buried, and geographical variations are less
concealed.
Figure 7 represents this principle as applied to certain charac-
ters of the gopher-snakes. The number of dorsal and caudal
blotches together has been subtracted from the number of gas-
trosteges for each specimen. Certain differences between the
subspecies become at once evident. P. c. annectens (curve 3)
stands out as very distinct from P. c. deserticola (4) and the
snakes of Arizona and Utah (5 and 6). P. c. heermanni (2) is
also clearly different from P. c. deserticola (4). The Arizona
snakes (6) plainly are not like those of Utah (5), nor like the
Lower Californian P. vertebralis (curve 7).
Still other differences between various subspecies exist but
have not been charted. Thus, the snakes of Utah and Arizona
most frequently have but one preocular, while the other races
usually have two. In P. vertebralis the supralabials usually are
nine, while eight is the number most frequent in the other races.
It seems, then, that instead of the three kinds of gopher-
snakes which have been recognized by authors for many years,
the facts will be best set forth by according recognition to seven
kinds from western North America. The chief differences be-
tween these may be briefly set forth in the following table of
averages. The complete scale-counts and localities are given
in the earlier paper. The counts of the blotches are given here
under the head of each subspecies with the numbers of the
specimens and of the localities as in the former paper.
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Where individual variation is so great in races which inte-
grade and are so closely related, it probably is impossible to
make a “key” which will properly refer all specimens. How-
ever, it is believed that the following synopsis will serve this
purpose for most individual specimens, and perhaps for all
series of specimens from one locality.
SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES
a. Coloration on anterior half of body not largely red.
b. The number of gastrosteges less the number of dorsal blotches on
body and tail rarely exceeds 151.
c. Gastrosteges fewer (200 to 230), average fewer than 225;
urosteges fewer (51 to 80), average in males 70, females 63;
scale-rows usually (70 to 75%) not more than 31.
d. Dorsal blotches more numerous on body (56 to 93, average
70) and tail (14 to 30, average 21.4).
P.c. catenifer.—p. 13
dd. Dorsal blotches fewer on body (48 to 70, average 57.6) and
tail (13 to 19, average 15).
P.c. heermanni.—p. 16
cc. Gastrosteges more numerous (217 to 243), average more than
225; urosteges more numerous (62 to 85), average in males 76,
females 70; scale-rows usually (63%) more than 31.
Dorsal blotches numerous on body (54 to 89, average 74)
and tail (14 to 29, average 22.8).
P.c. annectens.—p. 17
bb. The number of gastrosteges less the number of dorsal blotches on
body and tail usually exceeds 151; gastrosteges more than 220.
e. The sum of the number of scale-rows and of preoculars
on both sides of head rarely exceeds 33; usually one
preocular.
P.c. stejnegeri—p. 21
ee. The sum of the number of scale-rows and of pre-
oculars on both sides of head usually exceeds 33.
f. The sum of the number of caudal blotches and
preoculars of both sides of head usually exceeds
16; usually two preoculars; posterior dorsal
blotches not distinctly reddish.
P.c. deserticola—p. 19
ff. The sum of the number of caudal blotches and pre-
oculars of both sides of head rarely exceeds 16;
usually one preocular; posterior dorsal blotches
often distinctly reddish or red-brown.
P.c. rutilus.—p. 24
aa. Coloration on anterior half of body largely red. Gastrosteges 233 to
257; scales usually in 35 or 33 rows; dorsal blotches few (average 44
on body, 11 on tail) ; supralabials usually nine or more.
P. vertebralis—p. 27
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Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Blainville)
Coast Gopher-Snake
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average fewer than 225 ; urosteges
average 64 to 70; scale-rows most frequently 31; preoculars
usually two; supralabials most frequently eight ; dorsal blotches
numerous, average on body 70, on tail 21.4; no red in colora-
tion.
Type locality.—California.
Distribution—The Coast Gopher-Snake occupies a rather
narrow strip of territory along the Pacific Coast of the United
States from Puget Sound to Santa Barbara County, California.
The eastern limit of its range in the far north is not known, but
does not include eastern Washington.
In southern Oregon, it occurs near Roseburg and in the
Camas Mountains, in Douglas County, but not near Klamath
Falls, Klamath County, where it is replaced by P. catenifer
heermannt.
In California, it occupies the coast ranges and valleys east to
the western edges of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
where it intergrades with and, farther east, is replaced by,
P. catenifer heermanni in the north and P. catenifer deserticola
in the south. Still farther south, it probably intergrades with
P. catenifer annectens in Santa Barbara or Ventura County.
It has been taken in Siskiyou (Ft. Jones, Callahan, Mt. Shasta),
Humboldt (Garberville), Trinity (Yolla Bolly Mountain),
Mendocino (ten miles south from Willits), Lake (Middletown,
Kelseyville, Lower Lake), Sonoma (Petaluma, Duncan Mills,
Guerneville, Monte Rio), Napa (Napa), Solano (Buddha Can-
yon), Marin (Inverness, Point Reyes Station, Mailliard, Mt.
Tamalpais, Lagunitas, Manzanita, San Anselmo), Contra
Costa (Walnut Creek, Antioch, Contra Costa, San Pablo Val-
ley, Mt. Diablo, Moraga Valley), Alameda (Berkeley, Oak-
land, Hayward), San Francisco, Santa Clara (Palo Alto,
Stanford University, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Los Gatos, Alma,
Coyote, Coyote Creek), Santa Cruz (Glenwood, Corralitos,
Soquel), San Benito (San Juan), Monterey (Monterey, Car-
mel, Bradley, Soledad, Coburn, Welby, Metz), San Luis
Obispo (San Miguel, Pismo, Edna, Indian Creek, San Juan
14 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
River, source of the Salinas River), and Santa Barbara (Santa
Cruz Island) counties.
Variation.—One specimen has no loreal plates; the other
one hundred and three all have the normal 1-1. The preoculars
are 2-2 in seventy-nine, or 78% ; 1-1 in seventeen, or 16% ; and
1-2 in six, or 6%. The postoculars are 3-3 in seventy-one, or
69% ; 3-4 in eighteen, or 17% ; 4-4 in eleven, or 11%; 4-5 in
one, or 1%; 2-3 in one, or 1%; and 2-2 in one, or 1%. The
temporals are 44 in thirty-nine, or 38% ; 3-3 in twenty-six, or
25% ; 3-4 in twenty-one, or 20% ; 4-5 in nine, or 9% ; 2-3 in
three, or 3% ; 2-2 in three, or 3% ; 5—5 in one, or 1%; and 24
in one, or 1%. The supralabials are 8-8 in fifty-six, or 54%;
8-9 in twenty-seven, or 26% ; 9-9 in fourteen, or 14%; 9-10
in three, or 3% ; 7-8 in two, or 2% ; 10-10 in one, or 1%. The
infralabials are 13-13 in thirty-two, or 31%; 12-12 in twenty-
two, or 21%; 12-13 in nineteen, or 18% ; 11-12 in nine, or 9%;
13-14 in seven, or 7%; 11-11 in six, or 6%; 11-13 in three,
or 3% ; 10-10 in three, or 3% ; 14-14 in one, or 1%; and 10-11
in one, or 1%. The scale-rows are 31 in sixty-nine, or 68%;
33 in twenty, or 20% ; and 29 in twelve, or 12% ; the average is
31.1 rows. The gastrosteges vary in number from 200 to 230,
males having from 207 to 230, females from 200 to 230; the
average in fifty-four males is 217, in forty-six females is 220.
The urosteges vary from 53 to 79; males having from 59 to 79,
females from 53 to 78; the average in fifty-three males is 69, in
forty-five females, 64.
The dark blotches between head and anus in seventy-five
specimens vary from 56 to 93, the average being 70. On the
tail, in eighty-three specimens, they vary from 14 to 30, and
average 21.4.
The counts of blotches in the various specimens are shown
below.
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Number
C 1589
C 2314
C 2434
C 1626
C 848
43452
C 849
43519
C 4019
C 4018
C 5614
C 4017
S 4220
S 1697
S 1741
30888
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27326
Ec 975
C 4845
C 5283
C 5282
43377
13766
13767
13768
13769
13770
17858
43375
43376
43321
43322
43379
43373
43374
C 4312
43412
39261
43274
43418
43419
43364
43365
43413
43414
43382
36120
36121
45131
C 6166
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Blotches on
Body Tail
66 22
79 22
SY/ 18
56 17
70 21
67 20
68 21
64 18
59 21
66 21
70 18
23
74 23
ad 24
74 22
68 20
77 28
93 28
67 19
80 23
85 25
78 20
75 22
84 22
68 27
76 22
66 19
72 18
69 20
69 20
67 19
70 24
71 23
62 20
78 25
62 D2,
72 20
85 22
66 22
49 16
74 19
73 22
66 18
56 17
Locality
Number
Blotches on
Body Tail
64 23
63 20
71 27
69 24
87 28
71 19
63 21
66 22
71 19
63 21
63 15
67 20
71 21
73 17
59 18
64 23
67 24
57 22
58 14
61 21
69 21
73 25
82 27
84 26
66 21
62 20
71 23,
74 27
84 30
74 23
75 23
71 21
69 20
77 23
63
88 24
72 19
71 24
Locality
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Pituophis catenifer heermanni (Hallowell)
Valley Gopher-Snake
(Plate 1, fig. 1)
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average fewer than 225 ; urosteges
average 60 to 68; scale-rows most frequently 31; preoculars
usually two; supralabials most frequently eight; dorsal blotches
fewer, average on body 58, on tail 15; no red in coloration.
Type locality.—Cosumnes River, California.
Distribution—The Klamath region, Oregon, and in Cali-
fornia, Modoc County, the Sacramento Valley, the northern
part of the San Joaquin Valley, and the western slope of the
Sierra Nevada. In Oregon it has been taken near Klamath
Falls, Klamath County. Californian specimens have been col-
lected in Modoc (Canby, Goose Lake Meadows, Sugar Hill,
between Alturas and Davis Creek, Dry Creek in the Warner
Mts.), probably Shasta (McCloud River), Tehama (Tehama),
Glenn (Fruto, Winslow), Butte (between Live Oak and Grid-
ley), Yolo (Grand Island Landing), Placer (Lander near Col-
fax), El Dorado (Fyffe, Riverton), San Joaquin (Tracy),
Merced (Los Bafios, Snelling), Mariposa (between Kinsley
and Maculey’s Stage Station, Coulterville, Pleasant Valley),
Madera (vic. Madera), and Fresno (King’s River, Dunlaps,
Clovis) counties.
V ariation.—The loreal is 1-1 in all of the twenty-eight speci-
mens. The preoculars are 2-2 in twenty-six, or 93% ; and 1-1
in two, or 7%. The postoculars are 3-3 in twenty-three, or
85% ; 4-4 in three, or 11%; and 4-5 in one, or 4%. The tem-
porals are 44 in eleven, or 45% ; 3-4 in five, or 21%; 5-5 in
three, or 13% ; 3-3 in three, or 13%; 4-6 in one, or 4%; and
2-3 in one, or 4%. The supralabials are 8-8 in twelve, or 48% ;
8-9 in eight, or 32% ; and 7-7, 7-8, 9-9, 9-10, and 10-10, each
in one, or 4%. The infralabials are 13-13 in twelve, or 50%;
12-12 in six, or 25%; 14-14 in two, or 8%; 12-13 in two, or
8% ; and 12-14 and 11-14 each in one, or 4%. The scale rows
are 31 in thirteen, or 46% ; 33 in eight, or 29% ; 29 in six, or
21%; and 35 in one, or 4%; the average is 31.3 rows. The
gastrosteges vary in number from 209 to 231, males having
from 209 to 231, females from 218 to 231; the average in six-
Von. X] VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 574
teen males is 219, in twelve females, 224. The urosteges vary
from 55 to 74, males having from 61 to 74, females from 55 to
66; the average in fifteen males is 68, in eleven females is 60.
The dark blotches between head and anus in twenty-eight
specimens vary from 48 to 70, the average being 57.6. On the
tail, in thirty-two specimens, they vary from 13 to 19, and
average 15. The counts of the blotches are shown below.
Blotches on Blotches on
Number ————— Locality Number |___———_——_———| Locality
Body Tail Body Tail
C 4012 70 23 2 C 3608 54 14 27
S 5631 61 19 9 C 5595 59 15 28
S 5633 59 23 9 C 2080 63 24 29
39637 62 19 10 C 2081 60 17 30
27333 63 19 11 C 2082 56 19 31
C 6264 ore os 12 C 2083 56 20 32
C 4016 55 16 13 S 6500 as ae 40
C 4015 57 14 14 43521 48 15 43
C 4014 63 21 14 43522 56 15 43
41670 50 16 18 C 2759 57 43
C 5883 54 24 C 4013 63 20 67
C 5884 55 17 24 C 4011 58 19 69
C 5885 53 14 25 20413 65 16 72
C 5886 51 17 26 44161 58 18 74
41699 50 15 27 44241 57 18 75
Pituophis catenifer annectens (Baird & Girard)
San Diegan Gopher-Snake
(Plate 1, fig. 2)
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average more than 225; urosteges
numerous, average 70 to 76; scale-rows most frequently 33;
preoculars usually two; supralabials most frequently eight;
dorsal blotches many, average on body 74, on tail 22.8; no red
in coloration.
Type locality—San Diego, California.
Distribution.—This subspecies occupies the coast region of
southern California and northern Lower California, and has
been found on some of the islands off the coast. We have ex-
amined specimens from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), Ven-
tura (Pine Creek), Los Angeles (Charter Oak, Cold Water
Canyon, La Crescenta, Pasadena, Mt. Wilson, Sierra Madre),
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San Bernardino (Ontario), Riverside (Colton, San Bernar-
dino Mts., Riverside, San Jacinto, San Jacinto Mts.), and San
Diego (Warner Pass, Agua Caliente, Cahuilla Valley, Julian,
Cuyamaca Mts., Campo), counties, California, and from En-
senada, San Martin Island, and South Coronado Island, Lower
California.
It is probably this subspecies of gopher-snake which has been
observed, but not captured, on Santa Catalina Island. Those
of Santa Cruz Island, however, are Pituophis catenifer
catenifer.
Variation.—Sixty-nine specimens all have loreals 1-1. The
preoculars are 2-2 in forty-four, or 64%; 1-1 in twenty, or
29% ; and 1-2 in five, or 7%. The postoculars are 3-3 in forty,
or 59% ; 44 in thirteen, or 19%; 3-4 in eleven, or 16%; and
2-3, 2-4, 4-5, and 5-5, each in one. The temporals are 44 in
twenty-three, or 34% ; 3-3 in fifteen, or 22% ; 3-4 in twelve, or
18% ; 445 in five, or 7%; 5—5 in five, or 7% ; 3-5 in two, or
3% ; and 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 4-6, and 5-6, each in one. The supra-
labials are 8-8 in thirty-three, or 48% ; 9-9 in nineteen, or 27% ;
and 8-9 in seventeen, or 25%. The infralabials are 13-13 in
thirty-four, or 49% ; 13-14 in ten, or 14%; 12-12 in eight, or
12% ; 12-13 in seven, or 10%; 14-14 in three, or 4%; 11-13
in two, or 3%; and 10-11, 11-11, 11-12, 12-14, and 14-15,
each in one. The scale-rows are 33 in thirty-seven, or 54%;
31 in twenty-five, or 36% ; 35 in six, or 9% ; and 29 in one, or
1% ; the average is 32.4 rows. The gastrosteges vary in num-
ber from 217 to 243, males having from 217 to243, females
from 218 to 240; the average in forty-three males is 228, in
twenty-five females, 231. The urosteges vary from 62 to 85,
males having from 62 to 85, females from 62 to 83; the aver-
age in thirty-nine males is 76, in twenty-four females, 70.
The dark blotches between head and anus in seventy-one
specimens vary from 54 to 89, the average being 74. On the
tail in sixty-five specimens they vary from 14 to 29, and aver-
age 22.8. The counts of the blotches are shown in full below.
Vor. X] VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 19
Blotches on Blotches on
Number —————_| Locality Number ——————————_| Locality
Body Tail Body Tail
8575 85 23 1 S 1163 us Ys Bh
8678 69 19 2 S 1162 79 PH | 37
13588 63 19 3 S 4050 71 21 38
13589 63 21 3 40060 69 25 39
S 5163 65 20 17 40061 82 24 39
38918 73 22 18 40062 75 22 39
40003 83 22 19 40063 84 27 39
C4311 73 21 20 40064 82 24 39
C 749 74 23 21 40065 79 25 39
C 750 67 20 21 40066 75 19 39
C 4313 78 21 22 40067 77 20 39
C 4310 69 21 22 40068 81 2 39
27534 65 20 22 40069 73 23 39
27774 71 18 22 40070 77 24 39
27806 76 25 22 40071 73 19 39
Cres 73 20 24 40072 69 21 39
S 1197 81 24 25 40073 69 22 39
S 1164 71 26 25 40074 79 25 39
S 1784 61 18 25 40075 71 21 39
S 1166 72 22 25 40076 80 26 39
S 1122 65 24 Zo, 40077 78 26 39
S 4008 74 26 25 40078 72 20 39
S 1146 75 26 25 40079 81 39
S 1135 78 29 25 40080 76 24 39
S 1750 68 22 25 40081 79 24 39
C 104 89 29 26 40082 76 19 39
Ge 553 75 20 26 C 623 75 24 40
C 343 72 24 26 C 622 72 19 41
C551 87 26 26 S 1160 79 26 42
C552 78 23 26 S 1149 77 26 42
S 5240 28 S 1155 73 21 42
S 6464 78 20 29 C 1040 79 28 43
S 4291 81 21 31 C 3819 71 44
S 4268 80 24 31 43520 80 24 45
Pituophis catenifer deserticola Stejneger
Desert Gopher-Snake
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average more than 230; urosteges
average 59 to 64; scale-rows usually 31 or 33; preoculars
usually two; supralabials most frequently eight ; dorsal blotches
fewer, average on body 56, on tail 15.4; sometimes some
orange, but not distinct red, in coloration.
Type locality—The Great Basin and the southwestern
deserts.
Distribution.—The Colorado and Mohave deserts, the south-
ern part of the San Joaquin Valley, eastern San Luis Obispo
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County, the valleys east of the Sierra Nevada in California, and
probably nearly all of Nevada; possibly Idaho and eastern
Washington.
From Nevada, I have examined specimens of this subspecies
from Humboldt (Thousand Creek Flat, Virgin Valley, Big
Creek Pine Forest Mountains), Washoe (Pyramid Lake,
Nixon), Ormsby (Carson), Lander (Austin), Elko (Carlin)
and Esmeralda (Palmetto Mountains), counties.
Californian specimens examined have been collected in Im-
perial (Silsbee), Riverside (Mecca), San Bernardino (Victor-
ville, Hesperia), Mono (Benton), Kern (Walker Pass,
Tehachapi Mountains, Isabella, Delano, Bakersfield, Button-
willow), and San Luis Obispo (Simmler, Pozo, Palo Prieto,
Shandon) counties.
Variation.—Twenty-eight specimens from California and
western Nevada show the following variations: The loreals
are 1-1 inall. The preoculars are 2-2 in twenty-four, or 86% ;
1-2 in two, or 7% ; and 1-1 in two, or 7%. The postoculars are
3-3 in twenty-two, or 79% ; 44 in five, or 18% ; and 3-4 in
one, or 3%. The temporals are 3-4 in eleven, or 39% ; 44 in
five, or 18% ; 4-5 in four, or 14% ; 5—5 in three, or 11%; and
2-3, 3-3, 3-5, 5-6, and 6-6, each in one, or 3%. The supra-
labials are 8-8 in seventeen, or 61% ; 8-9 in six, or 21%; 9-9
in four, or 14%; and 8-10 in one, or 4%. The infralabials
are 13-13 in thirteen, or 46% ; 12-12 in six, or 21%; 12-13 in
four, or 14% ; 12-14 in two, or 7% ; 13-14 in two, or 7% ; and
14-14 in one, or 4%. The scale-rows are 33 in eleven, or 39% ;
31 in eleven, or 39%; 35 in three, or 11%; 29 in two, or 7%;
and 37 in one, or 4% ; the average is 32.3 rows. The gastro-
steges vary in number from 223 to 263, males having from 224
to 252, females from 223 to 263; the average in twelve males
is 234, in sixteen females, 239. The urosteges vary from 50 to
72, males having from 58 to 72, females from 50 to 67; the
average in twelve males is 64, in fifteen females, 59.
The dark blotches between head and anus in twenty-eight
specimens vary from 46 to 66, the average being 55. On the
tail they vary from 12 to 21, and average 15.4. The counts of
these blotches are shown in full below.
Vou. X] VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 21
Blotches on Blotches on
Number ——————_| Locality Number —————_| Locality
Body Tail Body | Tail
C 1003 52 12 10 43383 66 18 33
C 2761 54 15 11 43347 60 18 34
C 2760 52 16 11 43429 50 15 35
39553 55 17 12 C 2763 53 17 36
43381 56 16 13 C 2764 56 17 36
39595 62 21 14 S 5649 50 14 48
38958 56 19 15 C 1529 53 13 49
38959 55 16 15 C 1528 $1 14 49
C 2798 47 13 16 C 1274 $1 15 50
C 3716 46 12 23 C1275 52 14 51
C 3715 63 15 23 C 1276 54 16 $1
C 469 62 16 27 iS) $3 14 53
C 470 56 15 27 S) 54 14 54
C 471 54 12 27 S 6406 61 15 55
36285 64 30 40504 58 17 55
C 5365 52 14 32
Pituophis catenifer stejnegeri, new subspecies
Utah Gopher-Snake
(Plate 2, fig. 1)
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average more than 230; urosteges
average 60 to 66; scale-rows most frequently 29; preocular
most often single; supralabials usually eight; dorsal blotches
fewer, average on body 58, on tail 16.5; no distinct red in
coloration.
Type.—Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 14203, adult male, collected by
Joseph C. Clemens, at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake County, Utah,
June to July 4, 1908.
Description —Head somewhat flat-topped, with snout pro-
jecting and rather narrow. Temporal regions not swollen.
Rostral plate very large, prominent, not very narrow, often re-
curved between internasals on top of snout; bounded behind by
internasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. Plates on top
of head are a pair of internasals, a variable number of pre-
frontals (normally four), a frontal, supraocular of each side,
and a pair of parietals. Anterior and posterior nasals usually
distinct. Loreal usually elongate. Preoculars usually one, oc-
casionally two. Postoculars usually three, often two. Supra-
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labials usually eight, often nine. Infralabials usually 13, often
12, sometimes 11 or 14. Temporals of first row varying from
two to five, usually four. Genials in two pairs, anterior larger.
Scales on body in 27 to 33 rows, usually 29, keeled except in a
varying number of rows on each side. Anal plate not divided.
Gastrosteges varying in number from 223 to 241, males having
from 227 to 241, females from 223 to 240. Urosteges in two
series of from 55 to 71, males having from 58 to 71, females
from 55 to 62.
The ground color is pale brownish or grayish-yellow, some-
times more or less obscured by the spreading of the blotches
or the presence of black or dark brown marks along the keels
of its scales. Along the middle of the back, from the head to a
point over the anus, is a series of from 50 to 68 (average 58)
dark blotches. These blotches are brown on the central part of
the body but are black anteriorly and posteriorly. On the
upper surface of the tail are from fourteen to twenty (aver-
age 16.5) blackish blotches. On the anterior portion of
the body the blotches are more or less rounded, but posteriorly
they tend to become quadrate. There are several series of
alternating, often more or less confluent, dark blotches or spots
on the sides. Across the top of the head, between the preocular
plates, is a moderately narrow brown band, very definite and
well-defined. There are similar bands or spots below the cen-
ter of the eye and running back and down from the upper post-
ocular plate. The top of the head posteriorly has a few, small,
scattered, dark spots. The spaces between the dark dorsal
blotches on the posterior portion of the body are yellow or
orange-yellow, usually somewhat obscured by dark brown
streaks along the keels of the scales. The lower surfaces are
yellow or yellowish-white with irregular spots or blotches of
dark brown or black on the gastrosteges and urosteges. There
is no definite median subcaudal black band.
Length to anus.. 758 800 863 1028 1125 1125
Length of tail... 126 148 168 179 190 207
Variation.—Twenty-nine specimens from Utah show the
following variations: The loreals are 1-1 in all. The preocu-
lars are 1-1 in twenty-one, or 87% ; and 2-2 in three, or 13%
Vox, X] VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 23
of those undamaged. The postoculars are 3-3 in twelve, or
52% ; 2-2 in ten, or 43% ; and 2-3 in one, or 4%. The tem-
porals are 3-4 in ten, or 43% ; 4-4 in seven, or 31%; 455 in
three, or 13% ; 3-3 in one, or 4% ; 2-3 in one, or 4% ; and 3-5
in one, or 4%. The supralabials are 8-8 in thirteen, or 56% ;
8-9 in five, or 22% ; and 9-9 in five, or 22%. The infralabials
are 13-13 in eight, or 38%; 12-13 in five, or 24%; 12-12 in
four, or 18% ; 11-11 in two, or 9% ; 11-12 in one, or 5% ; and
13-14 in one, or 5%. The scale-rows are 29 in fifteen, or 56% ;
31 in seven, or 26% ; and 27 in five, or 18%; the average is 29
rows. The gastrosteges vary in number from 223 to 241,
males having from 227 to 241, females from 223 to 240; the
average in twenty-two males is 233, in five females, 235. The
urosteges vary from 55 to 71, males having from 58 to 71,
females from 55 to 62; the average in twenty-three males is
66, in five females, 60.
The dark blotches between head and anus in twenty-nine
specimens vary from 50 to 68, the average being 58. On the
tail they vary from 14 to 20, and average 16.5. The counts of
the blotches are given in full below.
Blotches on Blotches on
Number —__—_—_—_| Locality Number ——| Locality
Body Tail Body Tail
40961 66 16 56 14194 56 14 57
14207 54 14 57 14195 50 14 57
27198 64 17 57 14196 58 15 57
27199 52 15 57 14197 63 19 57
30913 51 16 57 14198 59 16 57
30914 60 18 57 14199 50 16 57
30915 61 20 57 14200 54 19 57
30916 61 17 57 14201 57 19 57
30917 54 16 57 14202 56 18 57
30918 61 16 57 14203 61 16 57
30919 63 16 57 14204 54 14 57
30920 53 18 57 14205 58 16 57
38756 63 18 57 14206 54 16 57
38757 60 14 57 38755 68 17 58
14193 66 18 57
Distribution.—Specimens of this subspecies are at hand from
Thompson, Grand County, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch
County, and Fort Douglas, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Remarks.—Three snakes from Boise, Ada County, and
Blue Lakes, Twin Falls County, Idaho, and one from Wallula,
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Walla Walla County, Washington, may belong here rather
than with P. catenifer deserticola, but their final disposition
must await additional material. They have twenty-nine and
thirty-one scale-rows and one or two preoculars (50% each),
and gastrosteges from 231 to 244.
Pituophis catenifer rutilus, new subspecies
Arizona Gopher-Snake
(Plate 2, fig. 2)
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges numerous, average more than
225; urosteges average 57 to 63; scale-rows most frequently
33; preocular normally single; supralabials usually eight; dor-
sal blotches very few, average on body 46, on tail 12.5; colora-
tion often somewhat reddish posteriorly.
Type.—Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 33869, adult female, collected
by J. R. Slevin at Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona, April 11, 1912.
Description Head somewhat flat-topped, with snout pro-
jecting and rather narrow. Temporal regions not swollen.
Rostral plate very large, prominent, not very narrow, often re-
curved between internasals on top of snout; bounded behind by
internasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. Plates on top
of head are a pair of internasals, a variable number of pre-
frontals (normally four), a frontal, supraocular of each side,
and a pair of parietals. Anterior and posterior nasals usually
distinct. Loreal usually elongate. Preocular usually one, oc-
casionally two. Postoculars usually three, often four, some-
times five. Supralabials usually eight, often nine, rarely 10.
Infralabials usually 12, often 13, sometimes 11 or 14. Tem-
porals of first row varying from two to five, usually four.
Genials in two pairs, anterior larger. Scales on body in 29 to
35 rows, usually 33, keeled except in a varying number of rows
on each side. Anal plate not divided. Gastrosteges varying in
number from 222 to 258, males having from 222 to 237, fe-
males from 227 to 258. Urosteges in two series of from 52
to 68, males having from 57 to 68, females from 52 to 60.
The ground color is pale yellow or grayish-yellow, some-
times more or less obscured by the spreading of the blotches
Vor. XJ VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 25
or the presence of dark keels on the scales, especially laterally
and anteriorly. Along the middle of the back, from the head
to a point over the anus, is a series of from 37 to 55 (average
46) reddish-brown blotches. The brown of these blotches be-
comes darker and redder posteriorly. These blotches often are
margined with black. On the upper surface of the tail are from
ten to fourteen (average 12.5) dark reddish-brown blotches or
cross bands. On the anterior part of the body the blotches
tend to be more or less rounded, posteriorly they are more
quadrate, or are wider with concave anterior and posterior bor-
ders. There are two or three series of alternating, often more
or less confluent, dark blotches or spots on the sides. Across
the top of the head between the preocular plates is a narrow
brown band, more or less obsolete in adults. There are similar
bands or spots below the center of the eye and running back
and down from the upper postocular plate. The top of the head
is light brownish-yellow, speckled with black. The spaces be-
tween the dark dorsal blotches on the posterior part of the body
are light yellowish or grayish-orange, usually without dark
marks on the keels of the scales. The lower surfaces are yel-
low or yellowish-white, with irregular spots or blotches of
light or dark brown on the gastrosteges and urosteges. There
is no definite median subcaudal dark band.
Length ito anus... 2... A456. 105O0"2 115 1130) = 1140
Kength:of taille... 5. 68 154 153 183 165
V ariation.—Sixteen specimens from Arizona show the fol-
lowing variations: The loreals are 1-1 in all. The preoculars
are 1-1 in ten, or 62% ; 2-2 in five, or 31%; and 1-2 in one, or
6%. The postoculars are 3-3 in six, or 37% ; 3-4 in five, or
31% ; 4-4 in four, or 25% ; and 4-5 in one, or 6%. The tem-
porals are 44 in seven, or 47% ; 3-3 in three, or 20% ; 3-4 in
two, or 13%; 4-5 in two, or 13% ; and 2-3 in one, or 7%. The
supralabials are 8-8 in eight, or 50% ; 8-9 in three, or 19%;
9-9 in three, or 19% ; 9-10 in one, or 6% ; and 8-10 in one, or
6%. The infralabials are 12-12 in nine, or 60%; 13-13 in
three, or 20% ; 13-14 in one, or 6% ; 14-14 in one, or 6% ; and
11-11 in one, or 6%. The scale rows are 33 in eight, or 50% ;
31 in six, or 37%; 29 in one, or 6% ; and 35 in one, or 6%; the
average is 32.1 rows. The gastrosteges vary in number from
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222 to 258, males having from 222 to 237, females from 227
to 258; the average in six males is 227, in nine females, 237.
The urosteges vary from 52 to 68, males having from 57 to 68,
females from 52 to 60; the average in six males is 63.5, in nine
females, 57.
The dark blotches between head and anus in 16 specimens
vary from 37 to 55, the average being 46. On the tail they
vary from 10 to 14, and average 12.5. The counts of these
blotches are given in full below.
Blotches on Blotches on
Number ——————_| Locality Number ————_ | Locality
Body Tail Body Tail
34755 39 10 4 33869 48 13 8
17541 50 12 5 33870 44 13 8
17546 40 11 5 33447 54 13 9
17547 45 13 5 Cc 43 12 ae
C 1824 54 14 6 (O; 50 14
S 1131 55 13 7 Cc $i
S 1705 42 13 vf c 51 13
S 1714 42 11 7 Cc 46 14
Distribution —I have examined specimens of the Arizona
Gopher-Snake taken at Yuma, Yuma County, the Colorado
River above Bill Williams River, Mohave County, Cave Creek,
Maricopa County, Fort Lowell and the Santa Cruz River
near Tucson, Pima County, and the Huachuca Mountains,
Cochise County, Arizona. Specimens of Pituophis from Ari-
zona have been recorded as collected at Oak Orchard, Camp
Grant, Wilton Springs, Tucson, Gila River, White River Can-
yon, Fort Whipple, Grand Canyon, and at Las Gijas in Pima
County.
Remarks.—The specimens from Mohave and Yuma counties,
and a specimen from Silsbee, Imperial County, California (re-
ferred to P. c. deserticola) show more or less intergradation
between the Arizona and the Desert Gopher-Snakes. These
specimens have very many gastrosteges, while those from ex-
treme southeastern Arizona have fewer. Indeed, some of the
latter have so few as to indicate intergradation with the gopher-
snakes of New Mexico which Ruthven has referred to P. c.
sayi, but which may possibly require recognition as a distinct
subspecies, P. sayi affinis (Hallowell).
Vor. XJ VAN DENBURGH—VARIATION IN GOPHER-SNAKES 27.
Habits.—Ruthven states that a large specimen, secured near
Tucson about sun-down on August 22, had recently swallowed
an adult ground squirrel. These snakes live both on the desert
plains near sea level and in mountain cafons to an altitude of
at least 5,300 feet.
Pituophis vertebralis (Blainville)
San Lucan Gopher-Snake
Diagnosis.—Gastrosteges average mote than 240; urosteges
average 62; scale rows most frequently 35; preoculars usually
two; supralabials usually nine or 10; dorsal blotches very few,
average on body 44, on tail 11; much red in coloration.
Type locality.—“California.”
Distribution.—The southern half of the peninsula of Lower
California, Mexico.
Variation Fourteen specimens show the following varia-
tions: The loreal is 1-1 in all counted (six). The preoculars
are 2-2 in thirteen, or 93%; 1—1 in one, or 7%. The postocu-
lars are 3-3 in fourteen, or 100%. The temporals in five speci-
mens are 44 in three, or 60% ; 3-4 in one, or 20%, and 4-5 in
one, or 20%. The supralabials are 9-9 in seven, or 50% ; 9-10
in five, or 36% ; 8-9 in one, or 7%; and 8-10 in one, or 7%.
The infralabials are 12-12 in seven, or 50% ; 13-13 in three, or
22% ; 13-14 in two, or 14%; 12-13 in one, or 7% ; and 14-16
in one, or 7%. The scale-rows are 35 in seven, or 54% ; 33 in
four, or 31%; 34 in one, or 7%; and 31 in one, or 7%; the
average is 34 rows. The gastrosteges in fifteen specimens vary
from 233 to 257, the average being 244; two males average
242, four females average 250. The urosteges in fourteen
specimens vary from 57 to 67; the average being 62; two males
average 63, and three females, 60.
The dark blotches between head and anus in six specimens
vary from 39 to 48, the average being 44. On the tail in six
specimens they vary from 10 to 12, and average 11.
Counts of the dorsal blotches on the body and tail in six
specimens are 45, 10; 39, 11; 48, 11; 43, 10; 44, 11; and AS; 12:
SS ESS ES ST ET PT ET STS EET
PROC. CAL. ACAD. SCl., 4th Series, Vol. X VAN DENBURGH ] Plate 1
Figure 1—Pituophis catenifer heermanni (Hallowell). Valley Gopher-
Snake. Photograph from a living specimen collected five miles south from
Madera, Madera County, California, May 10, 1920.
Figure 2—Pituophis catenifer annectens (Baird & Girard). San Diegan
Gopher-Snake. Photograph from a living specimen collected near Campo,
San Diego County, California, about May 12, 1920.
PROC. CAL. ACAD. SCI., 4th Series, Vol. X | VAN DENBURGH ] Plate 2
Figure 1—Pituophis catenifer stejnegeri Van Denburgh. Utah Gopher-
Snake. Photograph of a living adult male from Provo Canyon, Wasatch
Mountains, Wasatch County, Utah.
Figure 2—Pituophis catenifer rutilus Van Denburgh. Arizona Gopher-
Snake. Photograph of a living adult from Huachuca Mountains, Cochise
County, Arizona.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FourTH SERIES
WVolwax, NO:-2. ‘pps29=505, pl.,3 Aucust 6, 1920
II
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF RATTLE-
SNAKE (CROTALUS LUCASENSIS) FROM
LOWER CALIFORNIA
BY
JOHN VAN DENBURGH
Curator, Department of Herpetology
The first specimens of the diamond rattlesnake of the Cape
Region of Lower California were sent from Cape San Lucas
by John Xantus. Cope recorded them, in 1861, as Caudisona
atrox sonoraensis, but remarked that they were more delicately
tinted than Sonoran specimens, the dorsal rhombs being more
perfect and their yellow borders brighter. A considerable
number of specimens have been collected in southern Lower
California in more recent years, and have been recorded usually
as C. atrox. The differences in coloration, however, seem to be
of such constancy as to make it desirable to regard the San
Lucan snakes as a species distinct from both C. atrox and the
reddish C. exsul. I, therefore, propose for this snake the name
Crotalus lucasensis, new species
(Plate 3, fig. 1)
Diagnosis.—Similar to C. atrox (Plate 3, fig. 2) but colora-
tion brighter, much less punctulate, and with dorsal rhombs
more completely enclosed in light borders.
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Type.—Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 45888, collected by Joseph R.
Slevin at Agua Caliente, Cape Region of Lower California,
July 26, 1919.
Distribution The southern portion of Lower California,
Mexico.
Description of type-—Large. Head broad, flat-topped ; ros-
tral higher than wide, in contact with anterior nasal. Two
nasals ; two preoculars; three postoculars; two loreals. Supra-
ocular large, not raised into a horn-like process, separated from
its fellow by about six or seven irregular rows of scales. Six-
teen and seventeen superior and nineteen inferior labials, the
first pair of the latter divided horizontally as in C. exsul. A
single pair of genials. About five rows of scales between
supralabials and eye. Scales in twenty-seven rows, keeled ex-
cept in one or two rows on each side. Gastrosteges 186;
urosteges 26.
The general color is yellowish-brown, or brownish-yellow,
with a series of large, darker brown blotches along the back.
These blotches are well defined, are usually enclosed in con-
tinuous light borders laterally as well as dorsally, and show
little of the punctulate or pepper-and-salt style of coloration so
characteristic of C. atrox. The sides are clouded or blotched
with brown, more or less indefinitely outlined with light yellow
or white. The head is somewhat mottled above. A yellow or
white stripe runs across the side of the face from the preocular
plates to the mouth. The scales behind and above this light
stripe are darker than the ground color and are set off pos-
teriorly by a light streak which runs down and back from the
corner of the mouth. The tail is grayish with about four to six
black cross-bands. The lower surfaces are yellowish-white.
Bengt to sans iss ac wncis Maieieve iavote asta apeknenetea toes 1070 mm.
Length of tail to base of rattle. «2... ..6-0esieee 210)
PROC. CAL. ACAD. SCL, 4th Series, Vol. X [VAN DENBURGH ] Plate 3
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Figure 1—Crotalus lucasensis Van Denburgh. Photograph of section of
skin of specimen from San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, Mexico.
Figure 2—Crotalus atrox Baird & Girard. Photograph of section of
skin of specimen from Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.
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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF BOA
(CHARINA BOTT UTAHENSIS) FROM UTAH
BY
JOHN VAN DENBURGH
Curator, Department of Herpetology
The existence of boas of the genus Charina in Utah was re-
corded by Mr. Slevin and myself in 1915. These snakes then
were regarded as identical with the snakes of the Pacific Coast.
Further study shows that, while the boas of these two areas
are alike in almost every respect, they differ in the number of
scale-rows. The specimens from Utah all have 41 rows of
scales, while this number is found very rarely in the snakes
from the Pacific states. However, since an occasional speci-
men from the latter region has only 41 rows, it seems best to de-
scribe the Utah snakes as a subspecies.
Charina bottz utahensis, new subspecies
Diagnosis —Similar to Charina botte botte but with scales
in only 41 rows.
Type.—Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 38421, adult female, collected by
J. R. Slevin in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Moun-
tains, Wasatch County, Utah, June 28, 1913.
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Distribution.—Northwestern Utah, also Idaho.
Remarks.—The seven specimens at hand from Utah all have
41 rows of scales. The same number of rows is found in two
specimens from Blue Lake and Hood’s Valley, Kootenai
County, Idaho, which may be regarded as belonging to this
subspecies. The only other specimens with 41 rows of scales
of which I have record are one from Red Point, Placer County,
California, and one from Fyffe, El Dorado County, California.
These are to be regarded as instances of individual, or possibly
geographical, variation in Charina botte botte, for other speci-
mens from the same localities have 43 rows. It is these two
Californian specimens which cause me to regard the two forms
as subspecies rather than species. All other specimens from
California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, of which I have
records, have more than 41 rows of scales. Thus, of forty-
seven specimens from these states, fifteen have 43 rows, twenty
have 45, six have 47, and six have 49 rows. A specimen in the
Paris Museum is said to have 43 to 45 rows and to be labeled
“Utah Terr’. In the light of the present evidence it seems
probable that this locality is erroneous.
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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW LIZARD (DIPSOSAURUS
DORSALIS LUCASENSIS) FROM LOWER
CALIFORNIA
BY
JOHN VAN DENBURGH
Curator, Department of Herpetology
The Crested Lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, occurs in the
desert regions of California, southern Nevada, and western
Arizona, and ranges thence south to the end of the peninsula of
Lower California. It is one of the few reptiles found both in
the Cape Region and farther north in which specific or sub-
specific differentiation has not been recognized by name. Geo-
graphic variation, however, does occur, as will be shown below.
Since the species was originally described from a specimen
from the Colorado Desert, California, that form may be known
as Dipsosaurus dorsalis dorsalis, and the southern subspecies
may be described as
Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis, new subspecies
Diagnosis.—Similar to D. dorsalis dorsalis but with rostral
usually separated from nasal by but one granular scale.
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Type.—Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 46090, collected at San Jose del
Cabo, Lower California, Mexico, by J. R. Slevin, July 31, 1919.
Distribution.—The Cape Region of Lower California.
Remarks.—These two subspecies seem to be alike in all im-
portant characters, except the one mentioned. This difference
is not a constant one, but exists in so large a proportion of the
specimens that it seems best to recognize it by name. The fol-
lowing table shows the number of specimens which have each
number of granules at the point where there are fewest on each
side of the head:
Granules between rostral and nasal...| 1-1 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 2-0
Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis.... .. CARs
Dipsosaurus dorsalis dorsalis........ | 22 |) 42 | 270
It will be seen that these granules are 1-1 in 78% of the 351
specimens of D. dorsalis lucasensis as against 10% of 206 speci-
mens of D. dorsalis dorsalis, and are 2-2 in 15% of the speci-
mens of D. dorsalis lucasensis as against 83% of those of D.
dorsalis dorsalis.
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UNDESCRIBED TIPULID (DIPTERA) FROM
WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
BY
CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, Urbana, Illinois
Ina small collection of crane-flies belonging to the California
Academy of Sciences and sent to the writer for naming by
Mr. E. P. Van Duzee were included a few new species that
are discussed in this paper. The types of all the new species
are contained in the collection of the California Academy, un-
less stated otherwise. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Van Duzee
for the privilege of examining these highly important collec-
tions.
Subfamily Limnobiinz
Tribe Eriopterini
Genus Ormosia Rondani
1. Ormosia paradisea, new species
Antenne black throughout; general coloration brown, the
pseudo-sutural fovez black; preescutum with three broad,
dark brown stripes; halteres orange-yellow; legs dark brown
throughout; wings brownish gray, the costal and subcostal cells
more yellowish; stigma dark brown; cell rst M, closed; anal
veins convergent.
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Female.—Length, 5 mm.; wing, 7 mm.
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne black throughout. Head dull
brownish gray.
Mesonotal prascutum brown with three broad dark brown stripes;
tuberculate pits and pseudo-sutural fovex black, the former located at the
level of the anterior ends of the latter; remainder of the mesonotum
brownish gray. Pleura dull gray; two conspicuous tufts of long, light
yellow hairs on the meso-pleura, the more dorsal of these lying between
the bases of the wings and halteres. Halteres conspicuously light orange-
yellow. Legs with the cox dull gray; remainder of the legs dark brown,
the femora clothed with sparse, pale, appressed hairs. Wings brownish
gray, the disk variegated with paler; base of the wing, costal and sub-
costal cells more yellowish; cell 2nd R: beyond the stigma pale; veins dark
brownish black. Venation: Sc: ending opposite 7; Scz far from the tip of
Sci, the distance on R between the origin of Rs and Sc: being a little less
than R: beyond r; r about equal to the section of R: before it; cell 1st M,
closed, long and narrow; basal deflection of Cu at about one-third the
length of cell Jst Mz Anal veins convergent, the 2nd anal vein being
sinuous on its outer end.
Abdomen dark brown, the lateral margins with conspicuous light yellow
hairs. Ovipositor with the tergal valves strongly upcurved.
Habitat.—Washington.
Holotype, 2 (No. 719), Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier, alti-
tude 5000-6000 feet, July 29, 1919 (C. L. Fox).
Ormosia paradisea is allied to O. arcuata (Doane) of the
Eastern United States, but the coloration is darker through-
out, Sc, closer to the origin of Rs than to the tip of Sc,, and
other characters.
Genus Rhabdomastix Skuse
Subgenus Sacandaga Alexander
The species discussed below is the fourth Nearctic form to
be described. It should be noted in passing that the two Euro-
pean species of Gonomyia, G. schistacea (Schummel) and G.
leta Loew, are in reality members of this genus and subgenus.
2. Rhabdomastix (Sacandaga) fasciger, new species
General coloration brown, the pleura gray; wings grayish,
the stigma brown; an indistinct brown fascia along the cord;
abdomen dark brown.
Female.—Length, 7-8 mm.; wing, 7.5-9 mm.
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brown. Head gray,
more brownish medially.
Vou. X] ALEXANDER—UNDESCRIBED TIPULIDE 37
Mesonotal prescutum brown without apparent stripes; pseudosutural
foveze and tuberculate pits shiny black; scutellum and postnotum sparsely
gray pruinose. Pleura gray. WHalteres pale, the bases of the knobs a
little darker. Legs with the coxz dull brownish yellow; trochanters dull
yellow; femora yellow, the tips broadly infuscated; remainder of the
legs pale brown, the apical tarsal segments darker. Wings with a con-
spicuous gray tinge; stigma oval, dark brown; an indistinct brown fascia
along the cord, extending to the fork of M; extreme base of wing a little
yellowish. Venation: Sc rather long, Sci ending at about three-fourths the
length of the long sector, Sc2 removed some distance from the tip of Sci,
Sci alone being about equal to r-m; R2 short, sub-perpendicular to oblique
in position, subequal to or shorter than r-m; cell 1st Mz slightly narrowed
at its inner end; basal deflection of Cu: very oblique, inserted before mid-
length of cell Ist M2, the angle between Cu: and Ms; strongly acute.
Abdomen dark brown, suddenly narrowed or constricted on the ventral
face at the base of the terebra. Ovipositor with the tergal valves very
long and slender, the tips slightly expanded and upcurved; sternal valves
much shorter.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, @ (No. 720), Santa Cruz, June 2, 1919 (E. P.
Van Duzee).
Paratopotypes, 3 2’s.
It is possible, though scarcely probable, that this species is
a member of the subgenus Rhabdomastix, the most northerly
known species of which is found in Panama. Specimens of the
male sex will be necessary to tell this.
Tribe Limnophilini
Genus Limnophila Macquart
Subgenus Neolimnophila, new subgenus
Similar to Limnophila, s. s., differing as follows:
Antenne with the four basal flagellar segments united into a
compact, elongate-conical fusion-segment, there being but ten
free flagellar segments beyond it. In the female sex the third
and fourth of these fused segments are less distinctly united
and a faint suture is sometimes evident between them. Pro-
notum small, narrowed anteriorly; prosternum distinct, nar-
rowed posteriorly, separating the pro-coxe. Wings with
R.+; longer than R, alone, r being generally inserted on
R.-+; a short distance before the fork. Male hypopygium with
the pleurites very long and slender, the two pleural appendages
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small; outer appendage chitinized, the apex slender and strongly
curved, the outer margin with several appressed teeth; inner
appendage short, blunt, fleshy, the surface covered with setiger-
ous tubercles, two or three of the sete at the end of the ap-
pendage being much longer and stouter; at the base of the
pleurites two elongate cylindrical arms, the larger of which is
provided with rows of long, curved hairs. Gonapophyses ap-
pearing as flattened plates with their caudal lateral angle pro-
duced into a long, straight point.
Type of the sub-genus.—Limnophila ultima Osten Sacken
(Northern North America).
The curious Tipulid that is here made the type of the new
subgenus, Neolimnophila, flies in the autumn and less com-
monly in the spring and so may be expected to be double-
brooded. The species ranges across the entire northern United
States and Canada, to British Columbia and Alaska.
3. Limnophila subaptera Alexander
1917 Limnophila subaptera Alexander, Canadian Entomolo-
ist, vol. 49, pp. 207, 208.
g PP
One female specimen in the collection undoubtedly belongs
to this species although it differs considerably from the unique
male type. This specimen may be made the allotype.
Female.—Length, 16 mm.; wing, 2.4 mm.
General coloration light yellowish brown, the pleura with a faint grayish
bloom. Legs comparatively stout, the cox but little pruinose; legs brown-
ish yellow, the femora and tibie scarcely darkened apically; the terminal
tarsal segments dark brown. Ovipositor with the tergal valves greatly ex-
ceeding the sternal valves in length, slightly upcurved, the tips subacute.
Allotype, 2? (No. 721), Bubbs Creek Cafion, Kings River,
Fresno County, California, altitude 9700 feet, July 9, 1910
(E. C. Van Dyke).
Allotype in the collection of the California Academy of
Sciences.
Genus Ulomorpha Osten Sacken
The genus Ulomorpha was erected in 1869 (Monographs
Diptera North America, pt. 4, pp. 232, 233) to receive the then
Vor, X] ALEXANDER—UNDESCRIBED TIPULIDZ 39
unique species, pilosella (Osten Sacken). No other species had
been definitely referred to this group until the description of
Ulomorpha sierricola Alexander (1918). It is therefore of
very great interest to record three additional species of this
curious genus from the mountains of California. The rela-
tionships of this genus with Ewlimnophila Alexander, indicated
by Osten Sacken in the generic characterization, have been
amply and strikingly shown by the discovery of the immature
stages of Ulomorpha pilosella and several species of Eulimno-
phila (tenuipes, recondita, quadrata).
All three of the new species show marked peculiarities of
structure or color. U. quinque-cellula is the only species with
cell M, present, i. e., with five posterior cells: U, nigronitida is
notable by its intense shiny black coloration; U. vanduzeei has
the macrotrichize of the wing-membrane almost confined to the
areas beyond the base of the sector and thus approaches, in this
respect alone, the genus Adelphomyia Bergroth.
A Key To THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS ULOMORPHA OSTEN
SACKEN
1. Cell M, present (California). U. quinque-cellula, new species
Cell M, lacking.
2. General coloration of the body deep shiny black throughout (Cali-
fornia). U. nigronitida, new species
General coloration of the body shiny reddish yellow.
3. Macrotrichie of the wing-disk practically confined to the cells be-
yond the level of the origin of the sector; cells R and 2nd A with
few or no macrotrichiz (California). U. vanduseei, new species
Macrotrichiz of the wing-disk more extensive, extending almost to
the base of the wing in cells R and 2nd A.
4. Size large (wing of the ¢ about 9 mm.); stigma pale brown but
distinct; Sc shorter, ending about opposite four-fifths the length
of Rs; veins R: and Rs gradually divergent, cell R:z being con-
spicuously widened at the wing-margin; cell 1st M2 broad at the
base, the basal deflection of M+ 2 being about equal to r-m.
(Washington). U. sierrvicola Alexander (1)
Size smaller (wing of the ¢ about 7.5 mm.); stigma indistinct;
Sc longer, ending just before the fork of Rs; veins R» and Rs
almost parallel, slightly diverging near their ends, cell R2 not
being conspicuously widened at the wing-margin; cell Ist M2
narrowed at the base, the basal deflection of Mi+. being much
shorter than r-m (Northeastern North America).
U. pilosella (Osten Sacken) (2)
(1) Ulomorpha sierricola Alexander, Can. Ent., vol. 50, pp. 163, 164; 1918,
(2) Limnophila pilosella Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, p.
241; 1859.
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4. Ulomorpha quinque-cellula, new species
Size large (wing of the ¢ 9 mm.) ; general coloration shiny
reddish yellow ; cell M/, of the wings present.
Male.—Length, 8-9.2 mm.; wing, 9-9.2 mm.
Rostrum and palpi yellowish brown. Antennz rather elongate for this
genus of flies, the first segment brown, sparsely gray pruinose; second
scapal and the basal flagellar segments dull brownish yellow, the distal
segments dark brown; flagellar verticils long. Head dark brown, gray
pruinose.
Mesonotal prescutum shiny reddish yellow without apparent stripes; re-
mainder of the mesonotum dull yellow. Pleura reddish yellow. Halteres
pale brownish white, the knobs brown. Legs with the coxe and trochan-
ters yellow; femora pale testaceous brown, the tips narrowly dark brown,
especially on the outer face; tibia pale testaceous brown, the tips narrowly
dark brown; tarsi dark brown. Wings with a strong yellowish tinge;
stigma indistinct; veins brown; macrotrichiz in all of the cells beyond the
cord and more sparsely in the centers of the outer cells to basad of the
origin of Rs. Venation: Sc ending at about three-fourths the length of
Rs, Sc2 at the tip of the subequal Sci; Rs long, spurred at origin; cell R:
sessile; veins R2 and Rs divergent; veins R:, Rs and Rit+s arising almost
from a common point; r indistinct; 7-m very long; cell MM, present, much
longer than its petiole; basal deflection of Cu just before mid-length of
cell 1st M2.
Abdominal tergites yellowish brown, the sternites a little paler.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 722), Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., alti-
tude 7000 feet, July 28, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee).
Paratopotype, ¢.
5. Ulomorpha nigronitida, new species
Size rather large (wing of the ¢ 8 mm.) ; general coloration
deep shiny black throughout; cell M/, of the wings lacking.
Male.—Length, 7-7.8 mm.; wing, 8 mm.
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenne black throughout; verticils long
and delicate. Head black, very sparsely gray pruinose.
Thorax shiny deep black, including the pleura. Halteres with the stem
pale brown, the knobs dark brownish black. Legs with the coxe dark
brownish black, the hind coxe paler; trochanters dull yellowish; remainder
of the legs black, the bases of the femora dull yellow, this coloration
narrowest on the fore legs, broadest on the hind legs. Wings with a pale
gray tinge, the bases more yellowish; the abortive anal vein behind vein Cu,
yellowish; the macrotrichiz in the cells of the wing basad of the level of
the origin of Rs more sparse than in U. pilosella or U. sierricola, but very
much heavier than in U. vanduseeit. Venation; Sc ending at about four-
fifths the length of the long sector, Sc2 at the tip of Sci, Sc2 being about
two-thirds as long as Sci; Rs long, gently arcuated at origin; cell R:
sessile or very short-petiolate; vein KR: diverging from vein FR; and almost
parallel with R: so that cell R: is nearly twice as wide as cell Rs at the
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wing-margin; basal deflection of Rs+s short, about one-third as long as
r-m; cell M, lacking; cell 1st M2 large, nearly as long as vein M; beyond
it; basal deflection of Ci inserted beyond midlength of cell 1st M2.
Abdomen shiny, deep black throughout, including the hypopygium.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 723), Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., alti-
tude 7000 feet, July 16, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee).
Paratopotypes, 2 é’s, July 5-9, 1919.
6. Ulomorpha vanduzeei, new species
Size small (wing of the ¢ 6.5 mm.); general coloration
shiny reddish yellow; cell M, lacking; macrotrichiz practically
confined to the cells of the wing distad of the origin of the
sector.
Male.—Length, about 6 mm.; wing, 6.5 mm.
Rostrum yellowish brown; palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brown,
the first scapal segment sparsely gray pruinose; antennz moderately
elongated, the verticils very long. Head dark brown, the vertex surround-
ing the antennal fossze more reddish; head sparsely gray pruinose.
Mesonotal prescutum shiny reddish yellow, without apparent stripes;
remainder of the mesonotum light yellow. Pleura yellow. Halteres dark
brown, the base of the stem paler. Legs with the cox and trochanters
dull yellow; femora pale testaceous brown, the tips a little darker; tibiz
darker brown; tarsi dark brown: Wings with a faint yellowish gray tinge,
much less intense than in U. pilosella; veins brown macrotrichie practi-
cally confined to the cells beyond the level of the origin of Rs, only a few
scattered trichiz occurring basad of this, the 2nd anal cell with but one
or two trichiz near its distal end. Venation: Sc: extending to about two-
thirds the length of Rs, Sc: at the very end of Sc: and nearly twice its
length; Rs long, spurred at origin; cell R2 short-petiolate; vein R: almost
straight, diverging strongly from Rs so that cell R2 is conspicuously wider
at the wing-margin than cell Rs; basal deflection of Rits about one-half
the length of r-m; cell M, lacking; vein Ms beyond m longer than cell
Ist Mz; basal deflection of Cia inserted just beyond midlength of cell
1st M2.
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites more yellowish.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 724), Cascada, Fresno Co., altitude 5000
feet, July 29, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee).
7. Tipula trichophora, new species
General coloration pale brownish yellow, shiny; antenne
moderately elongate, the basal flagellar segments bicolorous ;
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mesonotal preescutum with four narrow brown stripes; wings
brownish gray, the distal cells with conspicuous macrotrichie ;
abdomen brownish yellow, the lateral margins of the tergites
with five dark brown spots; male hypopygium with the ninth
tergite large, deeply notched medially; caudal margin of the
ninth sternite produced caudad into two long, straight append-
ages that are tipped with stiff, yellow, spinous bristles.
Male—Length, 12 mm.; wing, 12.5 mm.
Frontal prolongation of the head shiny brownish yellow, darker brown
medially; palpi brown. Antenne moderately elongate, if bent backward
extending about to the base of the abdomen; scapal segments yellow,
basal flagellar segments indistinctly bicolorous, the basal swelling dark
brown, the remainder of each segment paler brown; distal flagellar seg-
ments uniformly dark brown. Head dark brown, paler behind, the front
and anterior part of the vertex golden-yellow pollinose; along the inner
margin of the eyes more grayish.
Mesonotum light brownish yellow, shiny, the praescutum with four nar-
row brown stripes; lobes of the scutum dark. Pleura shiny testaceous
yellow. Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem pale yellow. Legs with
the coxe shiny yellow, the base a little infuscated, trochanters yellow;
femora yellowish basally, broken before midlength. Wings with a strong
brownish gray tinge; cells C, Sc and the space behind vein Cu yellowish;
stigma dark brown; an obliterative area before the stigma, extending
across the inner end of cell 1st M/2; veins dark brown; conspicuous macro-
trichiz in cells Re, Rs, and Rs; M1 and 2nd M2 except the base, and the tips
of cells Ms and Cus. Venation: Rs long, arcuated; vein R: persistent;
petiole of cell M4; shorter than mj; m-cu at about one-fourth the length of
cell 1st M2, the first section of Ms+, being shorter than that section of
M42.
Abdomen shiny brownish yellow, the hypopygium darker, especially the
base of the ninth sterno-pleurite; conspicuous dark brown spots near the
basal lateral margin of tergites three to six and near midlength of tergite
two. Male hypopygium moderately large. Ninth tergite large, the caudal
margin with a large, subquadrate median notch, the conspicuous lateral
lobes flattened, the ventral surface concave, hollowed out like a spoon,
directed caudad; base of the notch weakly rounded outward, the dorsal
surface being impressed at this point. Pleural suture very short, straight;
outer pleural appendage elongate, cylindrical, narrow basally, the distal
two-thirds clothed with conspicuous, long, erect, black bristles. Ninth
sternite with the caudal margin produced posteriorly into two very con-
spicuous straight appendages that lie parallel and close together, the sur-
face at the tip and along the proximal face densely set with conspicuous
yellow spinous bristles; the lateral margins with more erect black bristles.
Dorsad of the base of these appendages and at the origin of the inner
pleural appendages are two conspicuous, pale, fleshy lobes that project
strongly laterad. Eighth sternite with the margin weakly trilobed medially,
each lateral lobe provided with about two small sete.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 725), Santa Cruz, June 1, 1919 (E. P.
Van Duzee).
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8. Tipula cahuilla, new species
General coloration of the head and thorax light gray, the
former with a narrow brown median line; mesonotal przescu-
tum with five narrow brown lines; scutellum with a capillary
brown line; wings grayish subhyaline; stigma dark brown; the
distal cells of the wings with conspicuous macrotrichie ; ab-
domen dark gray, the tergites with two yellow sublateral
stripes ; male hypopygium simple ; abdomen of female very long
and slender.
Male.—Length, 9-12 mm.; wing, 9-11.3 mm.
Female.—Length, 17.5-18.5 mm.; wing, 11-12 mm.; abdomen alone, 13.5-
148 mm.
Frontal prolongation of head dull yellow, light gray above; palpi dark
brown. Antennz with the first segment light gray; remaining segments
dark brown; flagellar segments subcylindrical, weakly incised beneath.
Head light gray with a delicate brown dorso-median stripe and a broad,
whitish ring around the eyes.
Pronotum gray. Mesonotal prascutum gray, the interspaces between the
usual stripes dark brown; there thus appear five narrow brown lines of
which the lateral pair represent the margins of the gray lateral stripes;
the median vitta narrower, dark brown, not attaining the suture; scutum
gray, each lobe with a brown circular mark; scutellum brownish testa-
ceous medially, gray laterally, with a capillary brown median line; post-
notum light gray. Pleura light gray, indistinctly variegated with pale
spots on the mesepimeron and across the dorsal margin of the sterna.
Halteres brown, the knobs darker, the base of the stem pale. Legs with
coxe light gray; trochanters dark brown; femora brownish yellow, the
tips dark brown; tibia brownish yellow, soon passing into brown; tarsi
dark brown. Wings grayish subhyaline, cell Sc a little yellowish; stigma
conspicuous, dark brown; veins dark brown; numerous macrotrichie in
the apices of cells Rs, Rs, Ms, 2nd M2 and My. Venation: Rs gently arcu-
ated; cell 1st M2 small, pentagonal; petiole of cell M: a little longer than
m; m-cu punctiform, located at about one-fourth the length of cell Ist M2.
Abdominal tergites dark gray with two conspicuous sublateral yellowish
stripes, the caudal and lateral margins of the segments broadly pale;
sternites dark gray, the caudal margins of the segments conspicuously pale.
Male hypopygium of very simple structure. Ninth tergite broader than
long, the caudal margin with a broad V-shaped notch, the lateral angles
obtusely rounded; tergite not fused with the other sclerites of the hypopy-
gium. Ninth sterno-pleurite extensive, the two pleural appendages very
simple in structure, the outer one an oval, fleshy lobe that is covered with
very short pile; inner appendage still smaller, bifid at the base, the outer
branch small, black, the inner branch produced into a cylindrical beak.
Ninth sternite with a profound, narrow, median notch. Eighth sternite
unarmed. In the female, the abdomen is unusually long and slender, as
will be seen by the accompanying measurements; the yellow abdominal
stripes are very conspicuous. Ovipositor with a conspicuous dorsal shield ;
tergal valves broad basally, lying transversely, the outer margins entire;
sternal valves much shorter, the tips truncated.
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Habitat —California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 726), Atascadero, San Luis Obispo Co.,
April 26, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee). Allotopotype, ? (No.
727), same data.
Paratopotypes, 1 ¢, 12; paratypes, 2 3’s, 2 ?’s, Bradley,
April 27, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee).
This interesting little species would seem to be allied to
Tipula beatula Osten Sacken. Its closest relative is T. bituber-
culata Doane, in which species the abdomen of the female is of
normal length.
9. Tipula evidens, new species
General coloration shiny obscure yellow, the przescutal stripes
scarcely apparent; antennal flagellum dark brownish black;
wings grayish subhyaline, the costal region more yellowish;
abdomen yellow, tergites two to five with conspicuous rounded
black spots along the lateral margins, basal sternite with a con-
spicuous rounded black median spot; male hypopygium large,
the ninth tergite very extensive with two obtuse submedian
and two longer sublateral lobes; eighth sternite with two
brushes of rather short yellow hairs.
Male.—Length about 14 mm.; wing, 15.5 mm.
Frontal prolongation of the head rather long, light brown, slightly darker
at the base; palpi dark brown. Antenne moderately elongated, if bent
backward, extending about to the wing-root; scape and basal half of the
first flagellar segment obscure yellow the remainder of the flagellum dark
brownish black. Head dull brownish yellow, the center of the vertex more
brownish gray pruinose.
Mesonotal prescutum shiny yellow with three indistinct reddish stripes,
the surface covered with a sparse pollen; remainder of the mesonotum
obscure yellow. Pleura yellow. MHalteres yellow, the knobs dark brown.
Legs with the coxe obscure yellow; trochanters yellow; femora brownish
yellow, the tips narrowly dark brown; tibie light brown; tarsi darker
brown. Wings grayish subhyaline; cells C and Sc more yellowish; stigma
light brown; an obliterative area extending from before the stigma across
the inner end of cell 7st M2; veins brown. Venation: petiole of cell Mi
a little longer than m.
Abdomen yellow; tergites two to five with a conspicuous black rounded
spot on the lateral margins, on the second segment near mid-length, on
the other segments close to the base of the segment; sternites yellow, a
conspicuous, rounded black spot on the first segment and less distinct
marks near the posterior margins of segments two and three. Male
hypopygium large. Ninth tergite very long and extensive, the caudal mar-
gin with a deep median notch, the adjacent submedian lobes broadly
rounded and with the inner margin set with small setigerous tubercles;
the sublateral margins of the tergites are produced caudad into much
longer lobes, with the apices subtruncate, the notch between these and the
Vor. X] ALEXANDER—UNDESCRIBED TIPULIDZ 45
submedian lobes rounded; the dorsal surface of the tergite has a median,
impressed line that continues cephalad, before the base cutting off a sub-
triangular area. Ninth pleurite small but complete; outer pleural ap-
pendage small, cylindrical or slightly clavate, pale, provided with long
hairs; from the ventral proximal angle of the pleurite projects ventrad a
short, blunt lobe that is provided with abundant crinite hairs that hang
ventrad across the genital chamber. Eighth sternite with two brushes of
rather short golden-yellow hairs on the posterior margin, contiguous, or
even slightly decussate across the median line. Gonapophyses appearing
as two long chitinized rods that lie parallel and close together, directed
dorsad.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, ¢ (No. 728), Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., alti-
tude 7000 feet, July 23, 1919 (E. P. Van Duzee).
Tipula evidens is allied to T. megalabiata Alexander but dif-
fers in the coloration of the antenne and in the structure of
the male hypopygium. This species, together with most of the
other species of the genus discussed in this paper, were sub-
mitted to Mr. Cole for comparison with the Doane types and he
reports this as very distinct from any of Doane’s species in the
Stanford University Collection. I am greatly indebted to Mr.
Cole for his care and help in determining these relationships.
10. Tipula megatergata, new species
General coloration yellow; antennal flagellum black; meso-
notal preescutum pale buffy yellow with three indistinct reddish
brown stripes; wings light gray, the costal region more yel-
lowish; abdomen obscure yellow; male hypopygium very large
and powerful, the ninth tergite tumid, with the lateral angles
produced caudad into elongate, pointed lobes that are bent
slightly dorsad at their tips ; ninth sternopleurite very restricted.
Male.—Length about 18 mm.; wing, 16.5 mm.
Frontal prolongation of the head yellow, the nasus small; palpi obscure
brownish yellow, the last segment dark brown. Antenne with the scape
yellow, the first flagellar segment light brown; remainder of the flagellum
black. Head reddish yellow, sparsely gray pruinose, with an indistinct,
median, capillary brown line.
Mesonotal prescutum pale buffy yellow with three indistinct reddish
brown stripes, the broad median stripe split by a broad grayish line;
remainder of the mesonotum yellowish. Pleura yellow, sparsely yel-
low pollinose. Halteres pale yellow, the knobs brown. Legs with the
cox and trochanters yellow; remainder of the legs broken. Wings light
gray, cells C and Sc yellowish; stigma pale brown; a conspicuous obliter-
ative streak extending from before the stigma across the wing into the
base of cell Ms. Venation: Cell 7st M2 pentagonal, high; basal deflection
of M,+: longer than Ms+..
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Abdomen obscure yellow, the basal segments brighter; caudal margin of
the tergites narrowly ringed with paler; hypopygium reddish. Male
hypopygium very large and powerful. Ninth tergite very powerful, tumid,
the lateral angles produced caudad into elongate-triangular horns that are
slightly twisted, the extreme tips acute, bent slightly laterad and dorsad;
the median notch is broadly U-shaped, on either side of the median line
with a small, chitinized, flattened projection, the apices obliquely truncated.
Ninth sterno-pleurite very restricted between the large ninth tergite and
eighth sternite, the pleurite almost complete. Outer pleural appendage
slender, clavate, pale, provided with long bristles. Gonapophyses project-
ing from the genital chamber as straight chitinized rods. Eighth sternite
with two brushes of short yellow hairs, one on either side of the median
line; lateral angles produced proximad into pale, complex arms that are
branched at their tips, the cephalic arm jutting backward underneath the
ninth sterno-pleurite, the tip provided with a brush of hairs, almost like
those on the caudal margin of the sternite.
Habitat.—California.
Holotype, é, Claremont (C. F. Baker), in the collection of
the author.
Tipula megatergata is closely allied to T. tergata Doane and
T. sternata Doane, especially the latter, but differs in the details
of structure of the male hypopygium.
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VI
THREE NEW SPECIES OF DOLICHOPODIDA
(DIPTERA) FROM CALIFORNIA
AND NEVADA
BY
M. C. Van DUZEE
1. Porphyrops montanus, new species
A small blackish species with blackish wings and black feet.
Male: Length, 3.3 mm. Face narrow, silvery white. Front violet with
two spots of white pollen which form a transverse band near its middle.
Antenne black; third joint of the usual acute triangular shape, not quite
as long as the eye height; the apical arista about two-thirds as long as
third joint. Lateral and inferior orbital cilia white, a few of the upper
cilia black. a
Thorax dark green, not very shining; pleure dulled with whitish pollen.
Abdomen bronze or coppery-brown with a little blue or greenish on the
center of the dorsum of the first and second segments, and rather long
white hair on the sides of the first three segments. Hypopygium black,
extending about one-half its length below the abdomen, its lamella black,
slender, rather wide at base but abruptly narrowing and tapering to a
slender point, not quite as long as the third antennal joint, fringed with
delicate pale hairs on both edges and with two long black hairs at tip;
inner appendages small, black with a point at tip and a tuft of black hair
near the base. Legs and feet black; fore and middle tibiz a little yellowish
on upper surface of apical two-thirds; fore coxe with long white hair on
their anterior surface; fore basitarsi widened a little at tip into a small
spur, making it a little concave below, a little shorter than the remaining
four joints taken together, fourth joint very short. Calypters, their cilia,
and the halteres yellow.
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Wings strongly tinged with blackish; third and fourth veins bent so as
to approach each other beyond the cross-vein, still nearly parallel at their
tips.
Female: Color and wings as in the male. Face wide with white pollen,
through which the green ground color can be seen; third antennal joint
short, a little longer than wide, triangular; the apical arista longer than the
antenne. Front violet, narrowly blue or green just above the antenne and
along the orbits; fore cox with shorter hair than in the male; fore basi-
tarsi not concave below, their tips not widened.
Described from one male and three females taken at Hun-
tington Lake, Fresno Co., California, July 9, 1919, at 7000 ft.
elevation, by Edward P. Van Duzee.
Holotype (No. 729), male, and allotype (No. 730), female,
in the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences.
This species is very much like P. mundus Loew, but it is
smaller and the female is more wholly black, the male has the
lamellz long and slender, while in mundus they are small and
rounded; the inner appendages are small in this species and
altogether black while in mundus they are long and yellowish;
the third antennal joint is shorter in this than in mundus.
2. Gymnopternus californicus, new species
Male: Length, 3.2 mm. Face wide, covered with brown pollen. Front
dark blue-green, almost black. Antenne black, third joint scarcely pointed
at tip, about as long as wide. Orbital cilia wholly black.
Thorax and abdomen greennish black, shining; hypopygium and _ its
lamelle black, the latter small, crescent shaped, fringed with brown hairs.
Legs and feet wholly black, the knees a very little yellowish; middle
tibiz with one bristle below and four above, all rather long and slender;
middle and hind femora each with one preapical bristle, the latter with
rather long hair on the upper edge, which is longest near the base. Calyp-
ters and halteres yellow, the former with black cilia.
Wings tinged with blackish; rather evenly rounded on the posterior mar-
gin, the anal angle being rounded off, not at all prominent; third and
fourth veins a very little convergent at their tips, still the tips far apart.
Female: Agrees with the male in color and in the form of the wings.
The face is wider and a little more gray than in the male; the hair on the
upper edge of the hind femora is much shorter. The fore tibie with a
row of little bristle-like hairs on their upper surfaces which are quite con-
spicuous; there are also three or four longer bristles among these hairs.
Described from 11 males and 18 females, taken at Hunting-
ton Lake, Fresno Co., California, July 9, 1919, at 7000 ft. ele-
vation, by Edward P. Van Duczee.
Holotype (No. 731), male, and allotype (No. 732), female,
in the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences.
Vor. X] VAN DUZEE—NEW SPECIES OF DOLICHOPODIDZ 49
3. Gymnopternus convergens, new species
Male: Length, 3 mm. Face wide, covered with dark brown, almost
black, pollen. Front greenish black. Antenne black, third joint longer than
wide, somewhat oval, the arista inserted above the tip; orbital cilia wholly
black.
Thorax and abdomen very dark green, shining, the latter with slight
bronze reflections. Hypopygium and its lamellz black, the latter crescent
shaped, fringed with brown hairs on outer edge.
Legs and feet black, the fore and middle tibiz more brownish; middle
and hind femora each with two preapical bristles; middle tibize with two
small bristles below and about six rather short ones above. Calypters and
halteres brownish yellow; the latter with yellow knobs and the former with
black cilia.
Wings tinged with brownish gray; third and fourth veins convergent
towards their tips, which are rather close together; anal angle of wing
rather prominent, the base of the wing being at right angles to the costal
line; wing widest about half way from tip of fifth to tip of sixth vein, the
hind margin being somewhat flattened from that point to the anal angle.
Female: Color and form of wing about as in the male, but the anal
angle of the wing is a little less prominent. The middle and hind femora
have each two preapical bristles as in the male; the face is a little wider
and perhaps a little more grayish.
Described from four males and five females taken by the
writer at Wells, Nevada, June 6, 1915.
Holotype and allotype in the author’s collection. Paratypes
in the collection of the author and in that of the California
Academy of Sciences (No. 733).
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VII
TWO NEW SPECIES OF SYRPHIDZ (DIPTERA)
BY
A. L. Lovett
1. Myiolepta carbicolor, new species
Length 10 mm. Color black: face, legs and pile black,
thorax shining blue-black; third segment of antenne light
brown, arista black; wings dark smoky, veins black, halteres
smoky brown.
Male: Face projecting, shining black, except for tubercle covered with
dense whitish pollen; along eye margins and on greyish cheeks with sparse
moderately elongate white pile; frontal triangle shining black, bare; ver-
tical triangle black with elongate black bristle-like pile, the pile extending
outward along occiput. Antenne brown, black at base, the third segment
light brown, circular; the arista moderately elongate, black.
Thorax and scutellum shining metallic blue-black with moderately dense,
elongate black pile. Abdomen sub-opaque black with translucent brown
and blue reflections arranged as pseudo-crossbands on anterior margins
of segments. Pile on disc inconspicuous, short, black, on lateral margins
and on fourth segment longer, white.
Legs black throughout, pile mostly white; on hind femur short, coarse,
black; on hind tarsi, golden. Wings dark smoky, veins black; calipter
with fringe of white pile; halteres smoky brown.
Type, male (No. 734), in Museum of California Academy
of Sciences. From Longmire Springs (Mt. Rainier 2500 ft.),
Washington, July 18, 1919; C. L. Fox, collector.
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Another male from Paradise Valley (Mt. Rainier 5500 ft.),
July 28, 1919, collected by C. L. Fox, in author’s collection.
This species is near auricaudata Will, and aurinota Hine, but
the wholly black legs and pile distinguish it.
2. Xylota bivittata, new species
In size, general appearance, and abdominal markings similar to analis.
Legs without spur on hind cox. Antenne lighter in color, third segment
yellow, arista black, longer than with analis. Face brown, light yellowish
brown on lower half, pile white; contour of face similar to analis, more
deeply concave in profile, oral margin more pronounced.
Thorax with a pair of indistinct longitudinal vitte not reaching the
scutellum. Pile of thorax shorter, more golden than in analis, crossband
of black evident only in certain lights. Opaque black of second and third
abdominal segments narrower, margined with brown; yellow areas larger,
quadrate, more as in subfasciata.
Legs without spur on hind coxe, color markings similar to analis, the
lighter areas more extended and honey-yellow; front and middle tibie
except for brown ring, all tarsi except apical segments, honey-yellow.
Wings similar to analis, apical cross-vein curved backward for a shorter
distance and less abruptly; halteres honey-yellow.
Type, male (No. 735), in Museum of California Academy
of Sciences, Huntington Lake, California, July 21, 1919; E. P.
Van Duzee, collector.
Paratype, male, in author’s collection.
Superficial characters throughout very similar to analis,
abdominal markings resemble subfasciata. Light brown face,
light antennz and absence of spur serve to differentiate it, and
minor characters are specific.
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VIII
NOTES ON SOME UNDESCRIBED CALIFORNIAN
HELICES
BY:
S. STILLMAN BERRY
Gradually accumulating material of the larger land snails
of the Californian area enables the recognition, as so notorious
in the case of the birds and mammals, of a considerable number
of more or less strongly marked geographical races, descrip-
tions of some of the more interesting of which are offered
herewith. ‘This paper is therefore to be taken as complementary
to one published by the same writer in the University of Cali-
fornia publications of a few years ago (Berry, :16). Unfor-
tunately the earlier paper was not illustrated, as the figures pre-
pared for it proved unsatisfactory for reproduction. The op-
portunity is now taken, at least in part, to make good the
deficiency.
The writer’s thanks are due to the various collectors here-
after mentioned who have so generously aided him by supply-
ing specimens, as well as to Mr. John Howard Paine for the
remarkable photomicrographs which constitute two of the
plates.
August 11, 1920
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Epiphragmophora tudiculata allyniana, new subspecies
(Plate 4, figs. la—Ic)
Diagnosis: Shell moderately thin, low-conic to depressed-
globose, strongly umbilicate, the umbilicus narrow and steep-
walled, but permeable to the apex and having a diameter of
about one-eleventh the major diameter of the shell. Whorls
about 6, convex, the last strongly inflated and somewhat de-
scending in front. Aperture rounded, ample, and very oblique,
its deflection about 40°. Edges of peristome converging and
connected by a thin parietal callus. Periostracum quite glossy,
but roughened over most of the later whorls by numerous fine
incremental lines and a very fine, close malleation like small
hammer dents, the latter becoming obsolete on the higher por-
tions of the spire and in the immediate vicinity of the umbilicus.
Color a dull cinnamon or Prout’s brown, becoming yellower
and paler in the umbilical region, and with a dark liver brown
band of a width of about 1.5 mm. on the shoulder, bordered
above and below by a light yellowish-brown band of about equal
width with the dark band and with its mate opposite, or the
lower in come cases a little the wider.
Measurements:
Maximum Minimum Altitude Diameter Number of
diameter diameter umbilicus whorls
mm. mm. min. mm.
HVPE cx slnhaenall 32.0 25.5 200 3.0 6
Paratype in C. A. S.
Coll, wet 29.4 24.3 19.3 2.6 6%
“Smith Coll. 32.3 25.8 18.8 27, 6
“Berry Coll.
SMe ASS 2953) 2353 172 727,
a smith Coll 26305 21-5 16.6+- 2.7
NOX
Type: Cat. No. 4850, Berry Collection. Paratypes in the
collection of the California Academy of Sciences and Cat. No.
1969, collection of A. G. Smith.
Type Locality: Jasper Point, Mariposa County, California ;
Allyn G. Smith, May, 1917; five living adults taken.
Vor.X] BERRY—SOME UNDESCRIBED CALIFORNIAN HELICES 55
Remarks: This large and fine race cannot be confused with
any of the described subspecies of tudiculata, unless it be the
E. t. umbilicata Pilsbry from San Luis Obispo County. The
latter is likewise a relatively depressed, finely malleate, umbili-
cate form, but is well distinguished from its Sierran relative by
its smaller, less tumid, heavier, and much more solid shell,
lighter color, more conspicuous banding, and more polished
surface.
Epiphragmophora traskii chrysoderma, new subspecies
(Plate 4, figs. 2a-2c)
Diagnosis: Shell as a whole depressed-conic in outline,
moderately thin; whorls convex, the body whorl quite tumid.
Umbilicus narrow, deep, little flaring, permeable; contained
about eleven times, or a little less, in the diameter of the shell.
Aperture only moderately oblique (30°). Peristome little
thickened; only slightly reflected except over the umbilicus,
the circular outline of which it barely indents; edges connected
by a thin callus.
Nuclear whorls worn in type, but in other specimens very
finely papillose and radially wrinkled, with obliquely slanting
lines of larger, more regular, distant papillae superimposed.
Following whorls very finely wrinkly-papillose, usually more
or less eroded. Growth lines as a rule comparatively weak, but
stronger at sutures and becoming very strong on body of later
whorls. Definite spiral sculpture hardly recognizable till latter
part of fourth turn, but developing on fifth whorl into a some-
what wrinkly system of incised spiral lines visible to the naked
eye, though more or less cut up by the intersecting growth
lines ; on the body whorl the whole complex strongly developed
over its upper portion, becoming gradually weaker, but still
very distinct, on the base.
Periostracum very thin, strongly dehiscent and almost impos-
sible to preserve in dry specimens; very light golden brown
(honey yellow of Ridgway) in color, sometimes showing
streaks of a darker hue following the stronger lines of growth,
but without any distinct spiral banding or other evident pat-
tern. Shell beneath the periostracum pure white.
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Measurements:
Maximum Minimum Altitude Diameter Number of
diameter diameter umbilicus whorls
mm, mm. min. mm.
pe aie eel eet. 2A 200. 16,5 22 Sy?
Paratype aoe sci 26:0: 21:3 1o4 24 58/4
Pu atta ier cueney 24.6 20.3 15.7 23 74
Se Nee eoss 22.7 18.7 14.2 2:1 De) s
IAVIGTAGE! 2 else .< 24.4 20.7 15.45 2:25 o/s
Type: Cat. No. 4132, Berry Collection. Paratypes in the
collection of the California Academy of Sciences and the pri-
vate collection of George Willett.
Type Locality: Among loose talus on higher portion of
southern end of South Coronado Island, Lower California;
George Willett, December 13, 1918; 12 specimens.
Remarks: The Coronado Islands have for long been the re-
puted home of a snail belonging to the traskii-group of Ephi-
phragmophora which passed for many years as the Helix car-
penteri of Newcomb, but Bartsch has lately reminded us that
Newcomb’s shell is almost certainly a mainland race of quite
different affinities, and has therefore renamed the island sub-
species coronadoensis (Bartsch, :16, p. 617), an action with
which I am in accord. As there seemed to have been no collec-
tions of coronadoensis made within recent years, and the exact
island of the group from which it came in the first place is still
uncertain, Mr. George Willett took advantage of a brief visit
to South Island in December, 1918, to undertake a special
search for this snail. At first only the common E. stearnsiana
(Gabb) was encountered, but finally in the southern part of the
island, he found not only a thriving colony of what I take to be
typical coronadoensis, but also a considerable number of speci-
mens of the somewhat larger, pale-colored form here described.
At the time, although found in a colony of its own, Mr. Willett
took the latter to be merely an “albino” mutation of the other.
This it may essentially be, but there are grounds, nevertheless,
for believing that it represents considerably more than simply
a sporadic variant.
Some readers will no doubt recall, as a previous attempt to
give systematic recognition to an albinistic variation of one of
Vor.X] BERRY—SOME UNDESCRIBED CALIFORNIAN HELICES 57
our Californian snails, the ill-fated Helix anachoreta of W. G.
Binney. This is now considered by most authors, no doubt
correctly, not to represent a fixed race, but to have been based
on a chance light-colored variant such as is known to crop out
ephemerally now and then in the race history of many diverse
groups of organisms. Hence it has never been shown to inhabit
any particular region or station, other than that regularly occu-
pied by its “normal” prototype, E. nickliniana (Lea), or its
occurrence to be any more than sporadic; in other words it does
not seem to have become hereditarily persistent anywhere.
With chrysoderma it appears to be quite otherwise. In the
first place, this light colored race, so far as the evidence goes,
actually does constitute a definite colony in a definite locality
and station on the island, as is indicated by “A” in the accom-
panying rough sketch received from Mr. Willett, namely among
loose talus high on the slopes near the southern end of the
island. Typical coronadoensis, 1 understand, was taken more
or less sparingly with it, but proved more abundant on grassy
slopes lower down and nearer the end of the island, where
chrysoderma failed to recur. In the second place, the differ-
ences, though by no means great, appear to be fairly constant
within the limits of the considerable series of both forms seen,
and not confined to the dilution or lack of periostracal coloring
alone. A comparison of the two series brings out the following
special peculiarities of chrysoderma,—1) the very thin,
strongly dehiscent periostracum (an exaggeration of a feature
already present in some degree in coronadoensis), 2) the
notably larger average size*, 3) the light brownish-golden
color of the periostracum, 4) the lack of spiral color bands of
any description, and 5) the more tumid outline of the body
whorl. Possibly also the umbilicus averages slightly wider.
The animal is light bluish gray in color.
Although I have recently described a curious little albinistic
Vertigo (Berry, :19, p. 48), it was scarcely expected so soon
to encounter another instance of an apparently hereditarily
fixed albinism in a West American land snail. Very possibly
both instances are more properly called albinoids than true
* The largest of 12 fully matured coronadvensis measures: Maximum diameter 24.1,
minimum diameter 20.0, altitude 15.7, diameter of umbilicus 2.1 mm.; whorls 5?/3. The
average values of all the dimensions are: Maximum diameter 22.86, minimum diameter
18.95, altitude 14.78, diameter of umbilicus 1.87 mm.; whorls 5.60.
58 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
albinos. The true nature of such forms among the Mollusca is
not yet well worked out, although in any event they are of con-
siderable theoretical interest. Very few races of snails are dis-
tinguished by characters of such a nature as to strongly sug-
gest their probable origin as sudden breaks or “mutations” of
the DeVriesian type in the germ plasm of the ancestral form.
But from the evidence at hand it appears quite reasonable to
believe that the racial features of these two forms can be so
regarded.
Epiphragmophora traskii willetti, new subspecies
(Plate 4, figs. 3a-3c)
Diagnosis: Shell depressed-conic, conspicuously umbilicate,
the umbilicus deep, permeable to the apex, and having a diame-
ter about one-ninth to one-eighth the greater diameter of the
shell. Whorls about 6% or a trifle less, convex, the last de-
scending somewhat in front. Aperture ample and very
oblique (45°). Edges of peristome converging and connected
by a very thin, transparent parietal callus. Lip but little thick-
ened, everted somewhat throughout, but especially at the pillar
where it is sufficiently reflected to indent somewhat the other-
wise circular outline of the umbilicus.
Color varying from near Prout’s brown to tawny-olive, be-
coming a little paler and yellower in the umbilical region, and
with a clear-cut, deep, liver brown band of a width of about 2.2
mm. on the shoulder, bordered below by a light yellowish band
(near naphthalene yellow of Ridgway) of about equal width
and above by a much narrower, slightly less clear-cut band of
the same color.
Periostracum somewhat glossy and with a peculiar sheen.
Lines of growth very numerous and quite regular. First half
whorl delicately hyaline and nearly smooth except for a few
weak incremental waves, with a fine weak papillation sometimes
superimposed ; next whorl and a half very finely and closely
granose or wrinkly granose, with numerous, large, elongate,
rather distantly spaced papilla superimposed, the latter ar-
ranged fairly definitely in retractively curved, very obliquely
slanting series; papilla on later whorls nearly, or quite, obso-
lete ; spiral sculpture consisting of a weakly developed series of
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incised lines, barely to be detected on the third whorl, then
gradually increasing in strength to the penultimate whorl, but
again becoming very weak on the upper portion of the body
whorl, and nearly, though not quite, obsolete below.
Measurements:
Maximum Minimum Altitude Diameter Number of
diameter diameter umbilicus whorls
mm. mm. mm. mm.
WallettiColl: 5.5... 31.6 26.2 18.8 3.8 6'/.
ss a eee 31.4 26.6 19.0 3:7 6'/>2
ne i WR pent 30.3 25a 18.4 3.3 6'/;
* oe NT cn ate 30.1 25.2 18.5 3.8 6'/,
iy Speers Rt cate 29.7 24.5 18.2 3:2 6/5
es Bey Ween ea 29.3 24.2 17.3 3:7 6'/s
ss Wee eee: ys 28.4 23.5 16.1 Sys 6'/2
Berry Coll. 4498... 31.4 26.3 19.1 3.8 6/2
Myers tea cn hase 5 ost OAS IRA” 38 61/.
Berry Coll. 4498... 29.4 24.6 18.0 3:2 6'/s
2 29. 24:3 18:3; 3:2 6'/s
Type: Cat. No. 4497, Berry Collection. Paratypes in pri-
vate collection of George Willett.
Type Locality: Alt. 3500 ft., Pine Canyon, Sespe Creek,
Ventura County, California; George Willett, March 24, 1919;
dead but fresh shells of 10 adults, and 14 juvenals of various
stages, both living and dead, found in rock slides. One living
and three dead adults taken at same locality in 1916 or 1917.
Remarks: The shell of this beautiful snail is easily the
largest, finest, and most richly colored of any of the traski-
group. In some respects it reminds one of the large mountain
species, petricola, and like it has suffered a considerable reduc-
tion in the spiral sculpture usually so characteristic of the snails
of this group. Nevertheless I believe its relationships are
rather with the true traskii, an opinion which is fortified by the
color and general texture of the shell and periostracum, quite
different from the light, Sonerella-like gloss of petricola.
The majority of the specimens are in an excellent state of
preservation and are remarkably constant in their characters.
They appear to represent an unusually well marked race, not
especially near to any of the previously described subspecies.
60 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
Its chief taxonomic features are the large size, depressed spire,
wide umbilicus, weakly developed spiral sculpture (especially
on the base), rich brown color, and prominent spiral banding.
Dead shells of what appears to be the same subspecies are
before me from Sespe Canyon above the mouth of Tar Creek,
collected by Harold Hannibal, and from Matilija Canyon, col-
lected by H. N. Lowe, in May, 1919. Both localities are in
Ventura County.
Epiphragmophora petricola orotes, new subspecies
(Plate 4, figs. 5a-5d; plate 6)
Diagnosis: Shell thin, translucent, depressed-conic, con-
spicuously umbilicate, the umbilicus deep, permeable to the
apex, and having a diameter about one-ninth the greater diame-
ter of the shell. Whorls about 51%, convex, the last descending
somewhat in front. Aperture oval and very oblique (45°).
Edges of peristome converging and connected by a thin, very
delicate, parietal callus. Lip but little thickened and only very
slightly reflected save at the pillar, where it tends to cover the
edge of the umbilicus.
Periostracum more or less glossy, often showing quite a
high polish. Lines of growth fine and numerous. First half
turn weakly radially costate, with a few scattered papillz; next
three-fourths of a whorl finely, closely granulose, with fine,
weak incremental costations, and, over all, traces of larger
papillz; granulation present to some extent on all remaining
whorls, but of diminished importance as compared with the
suddenly much increased incremental lines and the papillz;
latter now seen to be ranked, at least primarily, in the usual
obliquely retractively slanting series, almost quincuncially ar-
ranged, but the appearance of regularity often lost; maximum
development of these papillae attained on the upper surface of
the third whorl, still strong on the penultimate whorl, but prac-
tically absent from the body whorl except along the suture and
within the umbilicus; spiral sculpture very poorly developed,
only a few interrupted traces of incised threading being dis-
tinguishable on the upper third of the last two whorls, even
these becoming entirely obsolete below.
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Color a warm golden brown, running fairly near a tawny-
olive, becoming a little paler and yellower on the base, and
with a conspicuous dark (liver brown) band of a width of
about 1.5 mm. on the shoulder, bordered above and below by a
rather narrower band of a few tints lighter than the body of
the shell.
Measurements:
Maximum Minimum Altitude Diameter Number of
diameter diameter umbilicus whorls
mm. mm. mm. mm.
Smith Coll. (3700 ft.)21.6 17.8 W251 223 5°/3
pe tele eater AZ OK) “ULAR S 2:3 5*/,
@haceiGollin. a. e224: 20.5 14.0 an Bons
Berry Coll. 3988... .22.1 18.3 12:5 2.4 Ss
e io sO ea uence 17.5 A) eae) aye
: 2 tie Wag ey 2leO VAZ 11.8 2.4 Se
Type: Cat. No. 3905, Berry Collection.
Type Locality: Altitude 2500 feet, near trail, south fork of
Warm Spring Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains, California ;
under logs; Allyn G. Smith, December 26, 1917; one specimen.
Additional Localities: Alt. 3700 feet, near trail just south-
east of summit, Warm Spring Canyon, San Bernardino Moun-
tains, California; Allyn G. Smith, December 26, 1917; two
specimens.
Alt. 6500 feet, west wall of Bridal Veil Falls Canyon near
mouth, above Forest Home, San Bernardino Mountains, Cali-
fornia, in talus; E. P. Chace, May 24, 1918; nine fully mature
living specimens, several dead and young. (No. 3988 above are
part of this lot. )
Remarks: This neat little helicoid is practically a miniature
race of the large E. petricola Berry (:16, p. 107), with which
alone it would seem to require any special comparison. From
this it differs not only in its much smaller size, but also in its
thinner shell, more polished periostracum, and still further re-
duction of the spiral sculpture. It occurs in the same general
region of the San Bernardino Mountains as the typical form,
but has only been discovered at localities farther into the moun-
tains, at all of which it appears relatively constant and quite
sharply separable from petricola.
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For purposes of comparison figures of the shell and micro-
scopic sculpturing of the type specimen of petricola are here
appended (Plate 4, figs. 4a—4c; plate 5), especially as this
species has recently been strangely misunderstood by Bartsch
(:16, p. 612), who referred it without qualification to E. traskii
traskui (Newcomb). As a matter of fact very few of the
numerous races described by him in the same paper have nearly
the claim to separate recognition that petricola has, although I
believe with him that most of them will stand. E. petricola is
in fact the earliest described prototype of a whole series of
southern Californian mountain snails, the exact relation of
which to true traskii still remains to be determined. FE. zeche
Pilsbry (:16), on the other hand, seems quite close to petricola.
Both petricola and orotes are distinctly papillose over much
of the upper surface. A very young petricola now at hand from
the type locality (Cat. No. 3950, Berry Collection) shows that,
when perfect, each papilla bears a minute, stubby, hair-like
periostracal process.
Epiphragmophora petricola sangabrielis, new subspecies
(Plate 4, figs. 6a—6c)
Diagnosis: Shell low-conic, thin, fragile, rather tumid, um-
bilicate; the umbilicus rather narrow, barely permeable to the
apex, and with a diameter about one-twelfth the greater diam-
eter of the shell. Whorls 5%, convex, the last swollen and
slightly descending in front. Aperture rounded, sometimes
slightly flaring, oblique (40°). Edges of peristome slightly
converging and connected by a very thin, transparent parietal
callus. Lip only slightly thickened; everted near the pillar so
as to indent the circular outline of the umbilicus.
Periostracum somewhat glossy, often with a strong satiny
sheen or semi-iridescence. Lines of growth numerous and
fairly strong, though somewhat irregular. First half whorl
when unworn showing rather strong, more or less interrupted,
incremental wrinkles, and traces of a strong, coarse, overlying
papillation; succeeding turns very finely wrinkly-granulose be-
neath the retractively slanting lines of small and at first often
nearly obsolete papilla, the latter increasing in strength to the
Vor.X] BERRY—SOME UNDESCRIBED CALIFORNIAN HELICES 63
penultimate whorl where they are always strongly evident as
well as within the umbilicus and to a less degree over the
region just behind the aperture on the body whorl; papill
elsewhere on the last whorl more weakly developed. Spiral
sculpture obsolete, a few weak traces persisting on the upper
surface and peripheral region of the body whorl only.
Color light golden brown near buffy citrine, paler and with
more of a yellow tone below, with a dark, liver brown band of
a width of about 1.0-1.5 mm. on the shoulder, bordered above
and below by a rather narrower band slightly lighter in tone
than the body of the shell.
Measurements:
Maximum Minimum Altitude Diameter Number of
diameter diameter umbilicus whorls
mm, mm. mm. mm.
Mv Pewee venstore es 6 26.3 ZO 5:7, 22 5/2
Paratype, Willett
Gollieivccscteiscaes, 306 23.8 19.1 13.8 2 o/s
Type: Cat. No. 4848, Berry Collection. Paratypes in the
collection of George Willett. (Neither specimen quite fully
mature. )
Type Locality: Monrovia Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains,
California; George Willett, March, 1919; 14 specimens, for the
most part not quite mature.
Additional Localities: In addition to the lot from which the
type was selected, the following specimens before me are pos-
sibly referable to the same subspecies. They are at any rate
very close, although the material is still inadequate for entire
certainty.
Millard’s Canyon, north of Pasadena, San Gabriel Moun-
tains, California; E. P. Chace, March 11 and June 3, 1917; one
living adult, one living juvenal, seven dead of various ages.
Eaton’s Canyon, north of Pasadena, San Gabriel Mountains,
California; E. P. Chace, September 3, 1917; two living adults,
six dead of various ages.
West fork San Gabriel River “just below the divide’, San
Gabriel Mountains, California; E. P. Chace, September 1,
1918; five dead shells.
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Remarks: This mountain race appears to be somewhat
similar to Bartsch’s avus in shape, size, and the narrow um-
bilicus, but differs in the weak papillation of the upper surface,
and the presence of a weak spiral sculpture. From zeche Pils-
bry, it is distinguishable by its thinner, more tumid shell, much
narrower umbilicus, and the better developed papillation of the
upper whorls. None of the other described races appears to
require any special comparison.
LITERATURE
Bartsch, P.
:16. The Californian land shells of the Epiphragmophora traskii
group. Proceedings United States National Museum, v. 51, pp.
609-619, pls. 114-117, December, 1916.
Berry, S. S.
:16. Three new Helices from California. University California Pub-
lications, Zoology, v. 16, pp. 107-111, January 5, 1916.
:19. Three new alpine Vertigos from California. Nautilus, v. 33,
pp. 48-52, text f. 1-8, October, 1919.
Binney, A.
43. Descriptions of two undescribed species of North American
Helices. Boston Journal Natural History, v. 4, pp. 360-362, pl.
16, f. 17, pl. 20, 1843.
Newcomb, W.
‘ol. Descriptions of new shells. Proceedings of the California
Academy of Natural Sciences, v. 2, p. 91, February 4, 1861.
Pilsbry, H. A.
:13.. Note on a new variety of Epiphragmophora tudiculata. Nau-
tilus, v. 27, pp. 49-50, pl. 3, f. 15-17, August-September, 1913.
:16. A new Californian land snail. Nautilus, v. 29, pp. 104-105, pl.
3, lower figs., January, 1916.
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EXPLANATION OF PLATES
(Note: Figs. 4a-Sd on Plate IV, and Plates V and VI, are from photographs by John
Howard Fain, The remaining figures on Plate IV are from photographs by Berton W.
randall.
ExpLaNATION, Plate IV
(All figures natural size.)
Figs. la-le. Epiphragmophora tudiculata allyniana, new subspecies.
Anterior, apical, and basal views of type specimen, from Jasper Point,
Mariposa County, California.
Figs. 2a-2c. Epiphragmophora traskii chrysoderma, new subspecies.
Anterior, apical, and basal views of type specimen, from South Coronado
Island, Lower California.
Figs. 3a-3c. Epiphragmophora traskii willetti, new subspecies. Anterior,
apical, and basal views of type specimen, from Pine Canyon, Sespe Creek,
Ventura County, California.
Figs. 4a-4c. Epiphragmophora petricola Berry. Anterior, apical, and
basal views of type specimen, from Mill Creek Canyon, San Bernardino
Mountains, California.
Figs. Sa-Sd. Epiphragmophora petricola orotes, new subspecies. An-
terior, apical, basal, and lateral views of type specimen, from Warm Spring
Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains, California.
Figs. 6a-6c. Epiphragmophora petricola sangabrielis, new subspecies.
Anterior, apical, and basal views of type specimen, from Monrovia Can-
yon, San Gabriel Mountains, California.
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ExpLanaTION, PLaTE V
Fig. 1. Epiphragmophora petricola Berry, type. Portion of upper sur-
face of last whorl about a quarter of a turn behind the aperture, showing
periostracal sculpturing magnified about 15 diameters.
Fig. 2. Epiphragmophora petricola Berry, type. Portion of basal sur-
face of last whorl about a quarter of a turn behind the aperture, magnified
about 15 diameters.
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EXPLANATION, PLate VI
Fig. 1. Epiphragmophora petricola orotes, new subspecies, type. Por-
tion of upper surface of last two whorls a short distance behind the aper-
ture, magnified about 20 diameters to show the periostracal sculpturing.
Fig. 2. Epiphragmophora petricola orotes, new subspecies, type. Por-
tion of basal surface of last whorl just behind the aperture, magnified
about 20 diameters.
Fig. 3. Epiphragmophora petricola orotes, new subspecies, type. Por-
tion of apical region, magnified about 20 diameters to show the perios-
tracal sculpturing.
(All photographs used on this plate reversed.)
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with Notes on the Species in the Collection of the Academy.
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the Year 1915.
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A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GRASSHOPPER
FROM CALIFORNIA
BY
MorcGan HEBARD
In the spring of 1917 (April 22-27), Mr. E. P. Van Duzee,
curator of Entomology, Museum California Academy of
Sciences, collected at Bryson in Monterey County, California.
Among the material taken was a single specimen of grasshop-
per, which seemed to represent an undescribed genus and
species.
Upon being informed of this fact, Mr. Van Duzee again
visited Bryson, May 16-23, 1920, in order to obtain, if possible,
additional material of the species. After considerable effort he
was able to locate the habitat, and secured three additional
specimens, all females.
Esselenia,’ new genus
The present genus shows a combination of characters which
makes it most difficult to place. The form of the insect is more
robust than that of any other North American Acridid; in fact,
it is of a type quite similar to that usual in the Ommexechinz.
The head is as full, with face as perpendicular, as in Stira-
pleura, the pronotum showing a generally similar construction
of the lateral carine. The lateral foveolz of the vertex are,
however, not visible from above, in this feature agreeing with
Mesochloa and Phlibostroma, the vertex itself being as broad
as in the latter genus and intermediate between them in show-
ing a subobsolete medio-longitudinal carinula. The antenne
1 The small Esselenian tribe of Indians once inhabited the region from which this
genus is known.
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are relatively heavy and flattened, much as in Mesochloa and
Cordillacris, though not showing the slightly greater flattening
proximad found in those genera.
The pronotum, with caudal portion of disk produced mesad
and laterad and margin between concave, is distinctive. In
Mesochloa and Psoloessa alone do we find mere traces of con-
cavity of the lateral portions of the caudal margin of the pro-
notal disk.
The inner spurs of the caudal tibiz are almost equal in
length, in this agreeing with Cordillacris, but not as long and
slender as in that genus.
The ovipositor valves are very short, as in all the other
genera referred to above.
Taking all into consideration, we believe that Esselenia
should be placed after Phlibostroma, though further study of
the proper order of the related genera may lead to its being
placed near Stirapleura. The system generally in use for the
linear arrangement of the genera of the Acridine is clearly un-
satisfactory, but can not be rectified until extensive studies of
the subfamily are made.
GeENnotTyPE.—Esselenia vanduzeei, new species.
Figure 1.—Esselenia vanduszeei, new species. Dorsal view of type.
Female. (X 3)
Vor. X] HEBARD—A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GRASSHOPPER 73
Generic description: Size medium small, form extremely ro-
bust for the Acridine. Head large; face vertical; vertex wide,
its surface weakly concave and showing a subobsolete medio-
longitudinal carinula, its lateral margins slightly raised and
carinate; lateral foveole not visible from above; frontal costa
decidedly concave throughout between the strong lateral
carine. Eye rounded, scarcely deeper than broad, more nearly
circular in outline than in Stiraplewra and much less elongate
than in any of the other genera here discussed. Antenne short,
moderately heavy, flattened. Pronotum with a distinct and
percurrent medio-longitudinal carina, cut only by the principal
sulcus; disk bounded laterad by distinct but irregular carine
which are weakly convex-convergent to first sulcus, thence
straight and strongly divergent. Caudal margin of lateral lobes
and of each half of disk broadly concave, so that the pronotum
is roundly produced at each shoulder and more strongly so
mesad on the disk. Tegmina represented by large lateral pads.
Ovipositor very short. Interspace between metasternal lobes
of female slightly over twice as broad as long. Dorsal surface
of caudal tibize with eight to ten spines on external margin.
Internal spurs of caudal tibiz heavy, the ventral spur being
only slightly longer than the dorsal.
Esselenia vanduzeei, new species
We refer to the figure of this distinctive insect, as we know
of no other species showing sufficiently close agreement to
enable us to make a brief comparative analysis.
Type: Female, No. 736, Museum California Academy of
Sciences; Bryson, Monterey County, California, April 27,
1917; E. P. Van Duzee, collector.
In addition to the characters described in the generic treat-
ment, we would note the following: Lateral bounding carine
of vertex straight, very narrow and diverging from the sharply
rounded apex, forming nearly a right angle, to a point above
the lateral ocelli; thence, for an equal distance, straight, broader
and moderately converging to the point where they disappear
into the rounded occiput.
Cephalic margin of pronotal disk weakly convex, appreciably
less than one-half the distance between the extremities of the
caudal margin; least width of disk about four-fifths the cephalic
width. Surface of pronotal disk weakly tectate, moderately
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wrinkled, this decided toward the lateral carinze. Lateral lobes
of pronotum with greatest depth equal to dorsal length;
cephalic margin weakly convex and scarcely oblique to the ob-
tuse-angulate, sharply rounded ventro-cephalic angle, ventral
margin broadly convex to the rather broadly rounded, rect-
angulate, ventro-caudal angle; caudal margin broadly concave;
sulci deeply impressed on lateral lobes.
Tegmina represented by broadly lanceolate pads with
rounded apices, which are attingent (or weakly overlap), nearly
as long as combined length of head and pronotum. Veins and
cross-veinlets of tegmina heavy and distinct, forming a coarse
and irregular network, in which, however, the principal veins,
and particularly the humeral vein, are clearly defined.
Short ovipositor valves with heavy apices sharply curved.
Caudal femora heavy, the ventral and particularly the dorsal
portions evenly and broadly lamellate, the lamellation of the
dorsal margin being over half as wide as the external pagina.
Measurements (in mallimeters)
Caudal width Length of Width of
Length of Lengthof of pronotal Lengthof Widthof caudal caudal
Female body pronotum disk tegmen tegmen femur femur
Type 20.2 Bia) 4.8 8.1 3.8 12. Sn
Paratype 22.2 (0 Sins: 8.1 4. 12.1 a9
Paratype 20.2 50 oye 8. 3.8 P17 3.2
Paratype 20.8 ip 4.4 426 4. 11.8 sind)
General coloration (type, intensive) dark chestnut brown.
Head paling to hazel on occiput, cheeks tawny, this continued
as a U-shaped band from eyes, its lower portion crossing the
labrum, frontal costa and ventral portion of infra-ocular sulcus
suffused with black. Antennz hazel, deepening to chestnut
brown distad. Pronotum with median carina russet, bordered
by a band of mars brown, lateral carine buffy tinged with rus-
set, this broadening into a band on the metazona, the triangular
areas between these and the medio-longitudinal band velvety
blackish brown. Lateral lobes of pronotum irregularly paling
to tawny meso-proximad and with a buffy callosity mesad
which extends as a narrow line ventro-cauded to the caudal
margin above the ventro-caudal angle. Tegmina pecan brown,
the veins of the dorsal field suffused with black. Ventral sur-
face of abdomen argus brown. Cephalic and median limbs
hazel, mottled with chestnut brown. Caudal femora light
ochraceous-tawny in proximal two-fifths, this terminated in
external face of dorsal surface by a large triangular patch of
Vor. X] HEBARD—A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GRASSHOPPER 15
velvety blackish brown, this surface flecked proximo-dorsad
with this color also; remaining distal portions pecan brown,
suffused in genicular areas with blackish. Caudal tibiae oppo-
site genicular areas of caudal femora black, beyond this show-
ing a broad buffy annulus, particularly distinct on the inner
surface, remaining portions buckthorn brown, suffused distad
with mummy brown; proximal internal spines mummy brown,
other spines and spurs buckthorn brown, tipped with mummy
brown.
One of the paratypes is similarly colored, except that the
general coloration is much paler, walnut brown. Another has
the color pattern much more strikingly defined, the blackish areas
being as dark, but the medio-longitudinal band of head and pro-
notum light ochraceous-tawny, the tegmina ochraceous-tawny
except in the sutural half of the dorsal section and the proximal
portions of the caudal femora light ochraceous-salmon. The
remaining paratype is almost uniformly sayal brown in colora-
tion, the dark triangle dorsad on the caudal femora remaining
as the only trace of color pattern.
In addition to the type, three female paratypes are before us,
bearing the same data, but taken May 18, 1920. One of these
is the property of the California Academy of Sciences, the other
two are in the author’s collection.
In securing these paratypes, Mr. Van Duzee had some diffi-
culty in locating the proper environment in which to search for
the species. They were taken in the same canyon as the type,
on the grassy or sandy borders of a small mountain stream.
At the time there was no running water in the stream, but little
pools with level sandy flats between and it was on one of these
flats that all were located. The exact spot is in the canyon
back of the Bryson school house, about two miles east of the
Nacimiento River and the same distance north of the San Luis
Obispo County line.
The species probably reaches its greatest adult abundance in
the early spring.
We take pleasure in naming this singular species in honor of
the ardent student and collector who discovered it and who has
subsequently, not without considerable difficulty, secured addi-
tional material and valuable data as to the immediate environ-
ment in which it occurs.
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Xx
COLOR CHANGES AND STRUCTURE OF THE SKIN
OF ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS
BY CHARLES E. VON GELDERN
The mechanism of the color changes in the lacertilia has been
the subject of much investigation, especially in that of the African
Chameleon. One need only refer to the works of Briicke, Keller,
and Fuchs for historical resumés. Briicke, Pouchet, and Keller have
attempted to solve this problem by a close study of the histological
structure of the skin and Keller was able to demonstrate clearly
the various elements essential for the production of the various
color states.
The histological structure of the skin of Anolis has, as far as I
have been able to determine, been studied only by Carlton, who
attempted to correlate the findings of Keller in the chameleon
with those in Anolis.
The Anolis carolinensis, or so-called Florida Chameleon, belongs
to the family Iguanide and is in no way related to the true chame-
leons. Its habitat is the southeastern part of the United States
and Cuba. It may be distinguished from all other North American
lizards except the Geckos, according to Ditmars, by the expanded
and flattened adhesive pads on the middle four phalanges of each
foot.
It is entirely insectivorous, subsisting mainly on flies and meal
worms, which it is able to capture with almost unerring accuracy.
Water in the form of scattered droplets is lapped by means of its
thick tongue and these lizards soon become dehydrated and die if
water be not supplied in this form.
A characteristic flattened, semicircular projection of the skin,
known as the throat-fan (Ditmars), dewlap or gular appendage
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(Gadow), is produced at will in the mid-ventral region of the head
and neck. This fan is produced by the hyoidean apparatus. The
mechanism of this apparatus consists of a double, tapering car-
tilage lying in the mid-ventral line and attached to the body of
the hyoid just anterior to a line through the center of the eye.
When erected, it carries the loose skin of the cervical region with
it.
This throat-fan is, according to Ditmars, purely ornamental
and produced only by the males, being accompanied by a vigorous
nodding of the head and neck.
It is produced when a male spies a female or when it prepares
for combat with another male. When the males are captured and
held in the hand, this fan becomes prominent. Often when two
males meet, each one will erect a ridge along the mid-dorsal line
extending from the base of the occiput to a variable distance along
the back. This may be accompanied by a marked lateral com-
pression of the thorax and abdomen so that the lateral diameter
is smaller than the dorso-ventral, whereas under ordinary condi-
tions the reverse is true. The throat-fan is usually very prominent
during this state and there is present a characteristic coloration
which will be described later.
The Anolis lives well in captivity when supplied with water in
the form of scattered droplets and flies or meal worms. It soon
becomes apparently very tame and will take insects from the
fingers of its captor.
OBSERVATIONS OF COLOR CHANGES IN THE LIVING
ANOLIS
A general fact impresses itself after one has captured and
observed many of these lizards in captivity, namely, that the range
of variation in the color of the skin is by far greater in those animals
which have been freshly captured. After a few weeks of captivity,
although seemingly in perfect health, the color changes become
less complicated and less brilliant. This observation may tend to
explain the differences noted by different observers as to the color
changes. Ditmars states that the color varies from different
shades of brown to emerald green and that although these are the
common hues of Anolis, other hues are striking, namely, golden
yellow and slaty gray with the peppering of white spots over the
back. These colors he believes occur during the transition from
the two extremes, namely, brown and green. Carlton states that
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he has never seen any changes other than the different shades of
brown to emerald green and bases his assumption that the color
changes are much more simple in Anolis than in the true chameleon,
on the observations of Lockwood.
To those observing these lizards in their natural environment,
it is evident that the variation is not so simple as has just been
noted. A slaty gray with no element of brown or green is of fairly
common occurrence, as is also straw yellow.
Furthermore over certain areas of the body the colors undergo
even a greater variation than is ascribed to them by Ditmars.
Over the mid-dorsal region, for instance, there is present in many
of these lizards a narrow stripe of two or three millimeters in
width, extending from the cervical region to the sacrum or even
along the tail for a variable distance, in which further variations
may be noted. That this stripe varies in different individuals is
probable, and it may even be absent. Nevertheless, it is so char-
acteristic of many specimens that a description of its changes
should not be neglected. A bright pink color is often present
along the stripe which may become darker until it assumes a
brick-red color conveying the impression that there is placed
there a thick pigment which does not belong to the skin. This
stripe may also show a cream color or white, containing a faint
suggestion of yellow or brown. This light color is most often
observed in those lizards which have assumed the brown hue else-
where on the body.
When the mid-dorsal stripe assumes either a pink or a white
stripe it is irregular at the edges and these irregular edges are dark
brown. A less irregular, black stripe is often observed in the green
state.
I have been unable to discover any rule for the appearance of
the dorsal stripe in its various states. It may be present or absent,
brick-red, pink, white, or black in different lizards living under
the same conditions, nor does the color state of the rest of the body
influence the appearance to any extent. I believe that this stripe
may appear at some time in all the animals in which it is absent,
but that its appearance entails considerable change in the structure
of the skin so that its production must necessarily be a slow one.
On the sides of the maxilla, posterior to the eye there may be
present a black, quadrangular patch, measuring in large males
about two by three millimeters. When present, this patch is of
shiny black appearance and differs markedly from the rest of the
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body even in the dark brown state. This patch appears during
the time when two males are preparing for combat and is asso-
ciated with the appearance of the mid-dorsal ridge, the lateral
flattening of the abdomen and thorax, the extension of the legs so
that the body is raised off the ground, and by a peculiar greenish
mottling of the skin. The altered appearance of this animal pre-
paring for combat, in color, form and action, shows such marked
changes, that it is difficult to associate it with the animal under
ordinary conditions. Even the eyes, which ordinarily are fairly
prominent, recede so that the palpebral fissures show only the
pupils. The movements are slow and awkward and the body may
sway from side to side in a most fantastic manner.
In general, the peppering of white spots on the dorso-lateral
aspect of the body is characteristic, especially during the brown
state, and these spots may be confluent on the lateral aspect of the
cervical region. The lower border of the maxilla, the entire man-
dible, and the ventral aspect of the entire body varies from a
snowy white to dirty brown, gray, or peppered with black dots.
The throat-fan when extended is a brilliant pink or vermilion and
over it are scattered many white spots. When relaxed, the skin
of the throat region is somewhat cream colored or white with
reddish streaks at times.
The following table indicates the various colors noted in different
specimens at the same time and in the same specimen at different
times:
TABLE SHOWING RANGE OF CoLors IN VARIOUS AREAS
OF THE Bopy
I Dorso-lateral aspect:
A Diffuse:—
a. Golden yellow to straw yellow.
b. Emerald green to dirty bluish green.
c. Slaty gray of various shades.
d. Light brown to dark mahogany brown.
B Mottled:—
a. Yellow with irregular patches of green.
b. Yellow with irregular patches of brown.
c. Emerald green or pea green with irregular areas of darker
green to brown.
d. Green or brown (usually the latter) peppered with white or
light turquoise blue spots.
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II Mid-dorsal stripe:
Pink with irregular brownish border.
Brick-red with irregular brownish border.
White or cream color with irregular brownish border.
Black with fairly regular border.
Brown or green matching surrounding skin.
SESS
III Post-orbital patch:
a. Black.
b. Various shades matching the rest of the body.
IV Ventral surface of the body:
a. White.
b. White with scattered black spots.
c. Dirty brown or gray.
On comparing this table with that of Briicke for Chameleon vul-
garis, one notices certain differences. For instance, pale flesh
colors, lilac gray, steel blue and purple are not present in Anolis,
but the greater simplicity which Carlton would attribute to the
latter is questionable. Undoubtedly differences exist but the
changes must be just as complicated in one as in the other.
CAUSES OF COLOR CHANGES
The most evident general factors influencing the color states
are light, absence of light, temperature, and various external
stimuli.
Carlton found that with few exceptions the brown state was
brought about from the green state in four minutes by exposure to
sunlight. Absence of light changed the brown to green in twenty-
five minutes. With specially constructed containers, he found
that, with few exceptions, if part of the body of a green lizard,
either head or body, be exposed to direct sunlight, while the rest
remained in the dark, the entire body became brown.
Carlton concludes that there are nerve terminals in the skin
which are directly sensitive to light and which, when stimulated
in one area, send impulses which reach the efferent nerve endings
of the skin over the entire body. Spinal cord section in no way
changed the results, indicating that the action is either wholly
reflex in character, or that spinal nerves do not necessarily influence
the changes. Carlton was able to induce the green state by in-
jections of .oo1% nicotin solution in small quantities and this
change from brown to green was brought about in one minute.
This suggested to him that this change is under the control of the
sympathetic nerves.
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He also found that the green state could be produced in three
ways, namely, by subjecting the animals to the absence of light,
by inhibiting the blood circulation, and by cutting off the nerve
supply.
Inhibiting the circulation, he found, was a more important
factor than cutting off the nerve supply, in that it brought about
more rapidly the green state and, furthermore, when both factors
acted simultaneously, still greater rapidity in change occurred than
when either one acted alone.
Carlton believes that the green state represents the unstimulated
state of the skin, which is suggested by the fact that ether narcosis,
nicotin poisoning, and death are associated with the green state.
The brown state, he believes, is brought about by stimulation of
the nerve endings and represents ‘‘the state maintained through
tonus established by the sympathetic nerves and dependent upon
stimulation of the nervous end organs in the skin by light.”
Parker and Starratt, repeating Carlton’s experiments on the
rapidity of change from one color state to another, obtained results
that were not uniform and found that changes would occur more
rapidly on one day than on another and even at different times
during the same day.
By means of a constant temperature apparatus which could be
illuminated at 115 candle-meters and at the same time brought
from 10°C. to 50°C., they found the average length of time at
various temperatures at which either the brown or green state
could be produced from the opposite color state. They found that
at 10°C., the skin remained brown in either light or dark, but as
the temperature was raised to 20°C., the animals placed in the
dark became green in 19.66 minutes. At 25°C., under the same
conditions, the change took place in 13.23 minutes; at 30°C., it
took 10.93 minutes; at 35°C., 15.48 minutes. At 40°C. to 45°C.,
the skin remained greenish gray to green in both light and
darkness.
On the other hand, when green lizards were placed in the light
at 20°C., the brown state was brought about in 4.23 minutes; at
25°C., 3.52 minutes; at 30°C., 3.13 minutes, and at 35°C., 2.8
minutes.
These investigators believe that at intermediate temperatures,
namely, between 20°C. and 35°C., light is the controlling factor
but that temperature is effective over this range is evident in that
it may influence the rate of change.
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Parker, in experimenting with Phrynosoma regale, found that
the claw-like scales which fringe the lateral edge of the body be-
came white when the animal was subjected to a temperature of
32°C. and placed in the dark, and when placed in the light these
claw-like scales became almost black. At 19°C., these scales
became black in 15 minutes when the animal was placed in the
light, and they became white in 30 minutes in the dark. At 15°C.
light again caused black, while darkness brought about a light
color, but not white. From these results he concluded that a low
temperature favored the production of the black state, whereas a
higher temperature, the white state. Thus light produces in this
animal, as in Anolis, a dark state, while its absence brings about
the light state.
Parker further believes that even in Stellio, Uromastix, and
Veranus, which have always been considered to have a reversal
of the light reaction, in that light causes just the reverse effect
as in Anolis, namely, the production of light coloration in the
light and dark coloration in the dark, that the apparent reversal
is really a temperature effect and not a true reversal of the effect
of light.
Parker and Starratt mention the observations of Doctor Caswell
Graves who stated that in the neighborhood of Beaufort, N. C.,
on hot, sunny days about as many green lizards as brown ones
may be captured. These results are explained by Parker and
Starratt by considering that some of the animals are more sensitive
to light than to heat and thus become brown, while others are more
sensitive to heat than to light and become green.
I do not believe that this explanation suffices, for if one notices
individual lizards for a considerable length of time, one is struck
by the frequent and rapid changes from green to brown and back
again to green, apparently regardless of temperature and light.
How much influence the otherwise varying nervous conditions
exert on these color changes, it is difficult to say for it would seem
almost impossible to control them. I have watched animals which
were sunning themselves and apparently undisturbed and quiet
undergo these changes in a rhythmic manner. Rapid changes
are also frequently noticed when an Anolis changes slowly from
one object to another, the change occurring while the transfer is
being made.
Redfield, after numerous carefully checked experiments on
Phrynosoma cornutum, was able to verify the conclusions of Parker,
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Carlton, Starratt, and others that the daily rhythmic changes of
color are produced by the direct action of light and heat upon the
melanaphores. He further states that Phrynosoma adapts itself
to its surroundings, namely, if placed on a substratum of white
sand it slowly assumes a light coloration irrespective of light or
heat and if placed on a substratum of cinders it slowly takes on a
dark coloration. He concludes that the color adaptation depends
upon stimuli received through the eyes.
He was able to bring about a pale coloration in various ways,
such as forcibly opening the mouth or by the application of a weak
faradic current to the mucous membranes of the mouth or cloaca.
He believes that this proximal migration of the pigment may be
brought about in two ways, namely, by nervous impulses which
stimulate the melanophores through the sympathetic nervous
system or by secretion of a hormone (adrenin) from the adrenals.
The impulses are carried from the mouth or cloaca along the spinal
cord to a center situated between eighth and thirteenth vertebre
and thence by sympathetic fibres to the adrenals. The stimulated
glands secrete adrenin which is taken up by the blood stream and
acts directly on the melanophores causing a proximal migration
of the pigment.
Redfield concludes from the fact that adrenalin produces
proximal migration of the pigment in Anolis and from the work of
Carlton, that impulses through the autonomic nervous system
cause a distal migration of the pigment, that the melanophores of
Anolis must possess a double innervation from two divisions of the
autonemic nervous system. That this is possible he shows by
analogous tissue, namely, the smooth muscle, the latter one ‘known
to be innervated by antagonistic fibres belonging to two morpho-
logically distinct parts of the autonomic nervous system.”
The explanation for emotional manifestations in Phrynosoma,
Anolis and other animals is readily explained by his conclusions
regarding the secretion of adrenin.
When first placed in captivity the brown and green lizards in
the same cage are about equally divided, but after remaining in
captivity for a few weeks the greater proportion become brown
in the daylight and the green produced by the absence of light has
lost its former brilliance.
Much has been written about the true chameleon and its adap-
tation of color to its surroundings. Keller found, after placing speci-
mens of Chameleon vulgaris in a green house, that in a short space
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of time he was able to find them only after a most careful search,
in spite of the fact that when found they were often in plain view.
However, he does not believe that the surrounding color plays any
role but that other factors, which he did not attempt to explain,
bring about these changes. Ditmars states that there is no rela-
tion between the color of Anolis and its surroundings.
One must have great temerity to deny such a statement, but I
have noted adaptations to the surroundings in Anolis which seem
to be more than accidental. For instance, I have noticed that on
dark brown fence rails which contained small areas of green lichen,
some of the lizards resting on them assume a dark brown color
with irregular patches of brilliant green. In other words, a mixed
state is often evident and the effect produced resembles fairly
closely the surroundings. Almost invariably the lizards seen on
the trunks of the palm trees in New Orleans are brown and are
often detected with great difficulty.
The table below represents the findings on May 16, 1917, from
11.30 A. M. to 1.45 P. M., during which time the temperature was
25.5°C. The environment is stated, as well as the number of
lizards noted thereon, and the intensity of their color state. G repre-
sents green and B brown. Thesign +-+-+ represents the greatest
intensity of either green or brown, namely, either emerald green
or mahogany brown, ++ represents a less intense color but still
quite marked, while + indicates the least degree of intensity but
one in which one is able to definitely state the color as being either
green or brown.
TABLE 2
Number of green lizards
Total
G G G G
+++ ++ +
Greemthola gers mrs cytes clekatsceystereisalce rons 0 2 6 8
Darlkzigreen foliage.) \. ers crsjoie cic eho ecsasve ti 0 1 2
GWOnGr ete revere te pateteteial ha tctesererorelel sueievcte 2 0 a 3
Brown ‘tree traalews ic, iets store iversoysie ss 6 0 0 2 2
Hencelratl eccrine yao eisoieste einete 2 3 6 11
Motels ier, sia eve ropsierctaysheeretonsrerter cher taks 5 5 16 26
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Number of brown lizards
Total Total
B B B B G&B
+++ 44+ +
Green foliage. ccs ces.ss00 0 0 0 0 8
Dark green foliage.......... i 1 0 2 4
Goncreters Seccce O5, -tarane srohenetaes 1 2, 0 3 6
Brown tree trunk........... 0 1 0 1 3
Pence rad sco cyexgec terse: syozs <i 1 3 7 11 22
Motalsicncanmnes terse «sce 3 7 7 17 43
Except the lizards seen on green foliage, the number of green
animals equals the brown ones. No brown ones were noted on
green foliage but the observations here recorded are by far too
limited to permit definite conclusions to be drawn. There was
some difficulty in deciding whether an animal resting on a brown
fence rail amid a mass of green foliage should be classed as one
resting on a fence rail or on green foliage, but it was decided to
place these with the former.
One is justified, however, in drawing one conclusion from the
table, namely, that under approximately the same conditions of
temperature and light both green and brown lizards may be found
and, even on sunshiny days with a moderate temperature, the
green ones may even outnumber the brown ones. According to
Parker, brown should be the prevailing color. It does not appear
that in their natural environment the reason for the greater num-
ber of green lizards can be accounted for on the ground that these
animals reacted more strongly to temperature than to light.
According to Parker and Starratt, the Anolis remains brown
at 10°C. and remains green at 40°C., regardless of light. One
would expect then, that at a temperature of 25.5°C., if there were
a greater susceptibility to temperature, the brown state would
prevail for at this temperature there is active both the light and
medium temperature influence.
Evidently a factor which is of extreme importance in influencing
the color state is the emotional or nervous condition which can not
be easily controlled. The effect of the organs of internal secretion
which are under the control, directly or indirectly, of the nervous
system probably also influences the color states.
Ditmars states that the sleeping Anolis is invariably green and
that the same color is present during anger or fear. He states
that if a cage containing a number of these lizards be shaken, all
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take on the green state, but after allowing them to rest for a short
time, most of them assume the brown state. I have found this to
be true in general. Also, if a brown Anolis is taken out of its cage
and held in the hand it becomes green in a few minutes. This
characteristic change occurs quickly even in animals which have
been kept in captivity for a number of weeks and have apparently
become tame.
It is evident that various factors influence color states and the
problem becomes even more complex when one considers that
certain areas of the skin may be light colored, as in the case of the
mid-dorsal stripe, while the rest of the skin may be dark. One
must admit that the skin is influenced by three factors, tem-
perature, light and emotional or nervous conditions, induced, no
doubt, by way of sense organ stimuli. Yet we get opposite effects
in two areas of the skin of the same animal. One would hardly
expect light and temperature to have a selective action on the skin.
STRUCTURE OF THE SKIN OF ANOLIS
The chief object of this paper is to present a review of the his-
tological structure of the skin of Anolis and to add some observa-
tions with the hope that the further investigation of the color
changes may be enhanced and some of the factors governing the
color states explained. It is not claimed that a knowledge of the
minute structures and their relations will offer a full explanation
of these changes, but without such a knowledge, physiological
experiments must fail to accomplish this end. It is only by keeping
in mind the structure of the skin that the actual processes involved
may be surmized and physiological data be applied in actual
explanation of the problems.
The skin of Anolis is comparatively thin and loosely attached
except at the sides and dorsum of the head and tail. On closer
observation it is seen that it is not smooth but is thickly studded
with small, closely-packed scales which vary in shape, color, and
size in different parts of the body. These small scales, designated
as scutes by Carlton, are smooth and shiny.
The scales situated along the mid-dorsal line are irregular in
shape and size with slight tendency toward a hexagonal outline
(Fig. r). They are well separated and measure 0.29 mm. length-
wise to the body and 0.305 mm. in the transverse direction. A
thickened, linear, longitudinal keel may be present in the mid-line
of the scale. The scales on the dorso-lateral aspect of the body are
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less irregular than those along the mid-dorsal line and none shows
overlapping. They measure 0.248 mm. x 0.265 mm. (Fig. 2).
Those scales on the lateral aspect of the body are almost circular
in outline and are arranged in two rows, vertical and horizontal,
the intersection of the two rows making an angle of about 58°,
and they measure 0.255 mm. x 0.248 mm. (Fig. 3).
The scales on the ventral aspect are larger and more closely
arranged, the caudal edge of each scale overlapping slightly the
cephalic end of the scale just behind it. The outline of the scale
is somewhat oval or circular and there is present a horny ridge or
keel extending down the middle which becomes more prominent
as the caudal border is approached. The scales of the region
measure 0.35 mm. x 0.36 mm. (Fig. 4).
The scales on the tail differ markedly from those previously
described. They are hexagonal in outline and closely packed and
overlap each other to a greater extent than those on the ventral
surface. There is present a median ridge and the surfaces on
either side slope away from it. These scales measure 0.45 mm.
x 0.27 mm. (Fig. 5).
The dorsal aspect of the headismadeup of bilaterally symmetrical
plates of a more or less hexagonal form. Just posterior to the inter-
section of the mid-dorsal line and the posterior edge of the orbital
ridge is a marked pineal eye. The scales on the distended throat-
fan are widely separated and are flattened and somewhat conical
inshape. Those of the eyelids are so minute as to be barely visible.
The color of the individual scales is the same as that described
for the various areas of the body. When a general color state is
assumed, for instance brown, isolated scales may be white, tur-
quoise blue, lighter or darker brown than the general hue, or even
green.
Some extremely interesting features are noted in scales on the
various parts of the body when observed under the low power of
the microscope, by reflected and by transmitted light. The char-
acteristics exhibited by the scales present points of similarity, but
also some very marked differences. For these observations bits of
fresh skin were taken from different parts of the body and mounted
in glycerin and the appearance of the scales was studied both from
the external surface and from the internal surface.
The external surface of the lateral scales appears yellow by
transmitted light. Scattered evenly throughout are somewhat
indistinct, pale brown, stellate-shaped bodies, the melanophores,
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which average about fifty in number for each scale. The spaces
between the scales are transparent and contain many branching
pigment cells (Fig. 6 A). By reflected light these scales appear
emerald green and the interspaces black (Fig. 6 B). The internal
surface appears blue by reflected light and the branching melano-
phores appear distinct and dark brown or black (Fig. 6 C).
The external surface of the scales of the ventral surface appears
a pale straw color by transmitted light and contains isolated indis-
tinct pale brown melanophores of from four to twelve in number.
The branches of these melanophores become darker near their
termination (Fig. 7 A). By reflected light the scales appear some-
what as inverted glass cups containing crushed ice and the melano-
phores are cobalt blue except at the termination of their branches
which are brown (Fig. 7 B). The internal surface by transmitted
light appears a pale straw color and the melanophores are distinct
and black (Fig. 7 C).
The scales along the mid-dorsal stripe differ from those just
described in that, irrespective of other colors, they have a peculiar
pinkish cast while the melanophores are much fewer in number in
many scales and lighter in color than those previously described.
The scales of the throat-fan are pale straw color by reflected
light and show the blue appearing melanophores. The wide
spaces between the scales present many bright red linear streaks of
varying sizes which branch and anastomose. The underlying color
is pink and of granular appearance. By transmitted light the
melanophores appear brown and more distinct and the spaces
between the scales take on an orange color. Injections of india ink
into the circulation would tend to show that the pink color is not
entirely due to the vascularity of this structure but to some other
coloring matter present.
It would appear from the differences noted by reflected and
transmitted light that the melanophores are separated from the
surface of the scale by some substance which gives them a bluish
cast by reflected light and pale brown by transmitted light. That
they themselves are black is evident by viewing them from the
internal surface of the scale where they present a sharp clear out-
line (Fig. 6 A, B and C). In order to explain the green color of the
scales of the lateral aspect of the body it is necessary to eliminate
the yellow coloring matter which is noted by transmitted light.
This may easily be accomplished by subjecting the skin to alcohol
and ether in which this yellow substance readily dissolves. When
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the scales are now viewed externally by reflected light, they no
longer have the green appearance, but appear deep blue just as do
the previously described scales viewed from the internal surface
by reflected light (Fig. 6 C). The melanophores, however, are
blue and indistinct, indicating, as was later found, that a semi-
transparent reflecting layer exists between them and the surface
and that this layer is evidently not affected by ether or alcohol.
The explanation for the green color is now quite apparent, for
blue rays are reflected and these in passing through a clear yellow
medium present to the eye the green color.
The semi-transparent reflecting layer lying between the melano-
phores and the external surface reflects bluish-white light as is
evident in those scales in which little or no coloring matter exists
and in which the melanophores are sufficiently separated so as not
to influence the reflected light to any extent. This is true of the
scales on the ventral aspect of the body, in individual lateral
scales, and the white ones often found along the mid-dorsal line.
HisToLoGy
That the tissue relationship of the skin might be more carefully
analyzed with the purpose of attempting an explanation for the
changes of color, a number of lizards in various color states were
killed and segments of the body fixed in different fluids. It was
found that segments placed for about six weeks in a fluid consisting
of 3.5% potassium bichromate roo parts, formalin 4 parts, and
glacial acetic acid 5 parts, gave the best results. Tissue fixed in
this fluid maintained the cellular relationship and the osseous
structures were sufficiently decalcified so that entire sections of
the body could be made.
Formalin was found to act too slowly with segments of the body.
Lizards in the green state became brown during its action. It was
possible, however, to overcome this difficulty by injecting formalin
quickly with a hypodermic needle under the green skin, thus
obtaining almost immediate contact of the fluid with the entire
internal surface of the skin. This method has a distinct advantage
in that the animals may be studied on the table for a considerable
length of time after fixation and the color state carefully recorded.
Unfortunately, however, after a longer time the green color be-
comes changed to a slaty gray after the use of formalin, due most
probably to a change in the yellow coloring matter. Removing
the skin and washing it in water soon after fixing prevents this
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bleaching and bits of skin may then be held between pieces of hard-
ened celloidin and sectioned. The solubility of the yellow sub-
stance forbids imbedding in either celloidin or paraffin. These
sections should then be mounted in glycerine.
For examination of the cellular elements, tissues imbedded in
both celloidin and paraffin were sectioned at 15 microns and stained
with haematoxylin and eosin. Frozen sections treated with gold
chloride for the purpose of showing the nerve endings have, so far,
not been successful.
In order that the histological picture be made as complete as
possible, the elements of a single lateral scale will be described
(Figs. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14). Where differences exist in the scales
of other parts of the skin these will be mentioned. The layers
comprising the scale will be taken up in their order, beginning
from without inward.
Epidermis—The outermost, transparent layer or epidermis
may be divided into an outer, horny layer or stratum corneum
and an inner, stratum germinativum. The epidermis is consider-
ably thicker near the summit of the scale than at the periphery
where it becomes continuous with the thin epidermis of the space
between the scales.
The stratum corneum may usually be divided into two layers,
an outer one which is separated by an interspace from an inner.
This outer layer represents that portion which is ready to be cast
off in moulting (Figs. 8 and 12). The inner layer does not stain
with eosin, being straw-colored. The squamous cells may show
clear, non-staining, round bodies, representing the degenerated
nuclei. The layer undergoes marked keratinization at the apex of
the scale with the formation of a homogeneous, horny ridge or keel.
This thickening is more marked in the scales on the ventral aspect
and those along the mid-dorsal line. Keratinization of the other
cells of the stratum corneum, other than in the keel, is not so
marked and, due to the dehydrating effect of the air, become fairly
well separated so that their outlines may be distinguished (Fig. 8).
Briicke has described “interference cells” in the outer layer of
the stratum corneum in Chameleon vulgaris. These cells, he be-
lieves, modify the color of the skin by reflected light to a very
marked extent.
Keller believes that the outer cells of the outer layer of the
stratum corneum contain minute closely placed columns arranged
at right angles to the surface of the cell. He calls this outer layer
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the ‘Relief Schicht,”’ and the inner surface of this outer layer the
“Negative Relief Schicht.” The latter presents the negative
picture of the former in that instead of minute columns there are
toothlike incisions corresponding to the columns of the ‘Relief
Schicht.”” The layer between these two he terms the stratum
corneum. He further claims that the outer cells of the inner layer
of the stratum corneum are similar to those of the outer layer and
terms them the ‘Second Relief Schicht.” He believes that
separation occurs along a line corresponding to the boundary
between the “Negative Relief Schicht’’ and the second ‘Relief
Schicht”’ and that when the outer layer is cast off the second
“Relief Schicht’’ becomes the first and then a second line of cleavage
occurs making a second ‘Relief Schicht”’ and a ‘‘Negative Relief
Schicht.’’ This cleavage goes on at regular intervals. He found
that the fine column-like structures of the cells were very much
more pronounced in the foot pads and at the apices of the scales.
In Anolis the first or outer ‘‘Relief Schicht”’ of Keller is very
prominent on the under surface of the adhesive pads of the second
phalanges. The second “Relief Schicht’’ is also present when the
outer layer of the stratum corneum is well separated from the
inner layer, but no ‘“‘Negative Relief Schicht’’ was noted. On the
outer cells of the outer layer of the stratum corneum of the scales
of the general body, occasionally minute spicules resembling short
cilia may be seen in stained preparations but such occurrence
seemed very rare. In dried scrapings, the outer cells seen on the
flat contain numerous dots giving them a stippled appearance
when examined with the high dry or oil immersion lens. These
probably represent the spicules that Keller has described for the
chameleon. (See Fig. 9.)
The stratum germinativum takes the haematoxylin and eosin
well. The cells are polygonal with fairly large vesicular nuclei.
In the scales this layer is from two to three cells thick but in the
epidermis between the scales it is at most only two cells thick.
The basal layer is composed of cuboidal and columnar cells with
large vesicular nuclei. Their proximal borders, attached to an ill-
defined basement membrane, are frayed and brush-like (Fig. 8).
That the epidermis, through phenomena of interference, exerts
some modifying influence on the color of the skin in Anolis is with-
out doubt, but that it plays the important role which Briicke
ascribes to it for the chameleon is doubtful. Keller, in fact, dis-
agrees with Briicke as to the importance of this layer even in the
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chameleon. The small, transparent spicules in the outer layer
possibly cause some diffraction of light but this must be slight for
the underlying cellular outlines are markedly clear when viewed
through the epidermis.
The Oil Droplet Layer —A considerable amount of confusion
exists in regard to the layer underlying the epidermis. Keller has
described a layer in the chameleon which he designates the
ochrophore layer. He does not believe that it is cellular for the
elements composing it have no nuclei, but he believes that it is
made up of bits of cytoplasm cast off from an underlying layer of
cells which he terms the leucophore layer. This ochrophore layer
is found on the dorso-lateral aspect of the body but is almost
entirely absent on the ventral aspect and entirely so on the foot-
pads and spaces between the scales. Keller found that the ele-
ments of the layer were brownish yellow by transmitted light and
a bluish white by reflected light, had a granular appearance, and
that they disappeared under the influence of mineral acids. He
described these elements as more or less spindle shaped and verti-
cally arranged, the ends in contact with the epidermis being more
pointed than those of the opposite end. The elements farther
removed from the epidermis had both ends rounded.
Pouchet called this layer ‘“‘Iridocytes’’ and believed the ele-
ments to be cells although he could not make out the cellular
structure.
In Anolis, Carlton describes what he believes to be the ochro-
phore layer of Keller. He admits that its structure is not similar
to that found in the chameleon. I do not believe that Carlton
saw a layer corresponding to that in the chameleon, but that he
described the leucophore layer which he mistook for the ochrophore
layer. I will take up my reasons for this assumption in the dis-
cussion of the leucophore layer.
In sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin, I was unable
to make out any layer corresponding in either position, structure,
or color to the ochrophore layer. In certain scales, more often
those situated along the mid-dorsal line, a clear space or a space
filled with large clear cells with large vesicular nuclei could be
noted where the ochrophore layer should lie. Knowing that it was
possible to dissolve out the yellow coloring matter in the scales
with alcohol and ether, it did not seem improbable that in the
preparation of the stained sections practically all trace of this
layer had been lost.
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For this reason formalin fixed skin was sectioned between
blocks of celloidin very soon after fixing and then mounted in
glycerine. In these sections, there is situated just beneath the
epidermis a thin layer made up of bright yellow droplets of varying
sizes (Fig. 10). These droplets appear beautifully refractive, do
not contain any granular material, nor are they arranged like the
elements in the ochrophore layer of Keller. Some of these drop-
lets may even be found at times between the basal cells of the
epidermis where they have probably migrated.
By transmitted light this layer of droplets appears bright
yellow (Fig. 10 A), while by reflected light it disappears almost
entirely, in other words it does not reflect light to any marked
extent (Fig. ro B). In this respect it differs from the ochrophore
layer of Keller, which its describer found to be bluish white by
reflected light.
The sections treated with Scharlach R caused this layer to be-
come brownish red, indicating that the droplets composing it are
lipochromes.
This layer of oil droplets is practically absent on the ventral
surface of the body and entirely so on the adhesive pads of the
feet. To what extent it is present along the mid-dorsal stripe, I
am unwilling to say. That it occurs here in individual lizards to
the same extent as on the lateral scales is true; but whether it is
greatly diminished in those lizards showing a white dorsal stripe,
or whether it is present to the same extent but can be displaced to
the periphery of the scale by a special mechanism and there does
not effect the color, it is difficult to say. Keller believes that this
layer can be removed from the field of action by special cells.
One may conclude, then, that beneath the epidermis of the
dorso-lateral scales there is a thin layer made up of transparent
yellow oil droplets and that this disappears in stained preparations
due to its solubility in alcohol, ether and clearing oils.
Zanthophores.—Lying just beneath the epidermis of the lat-
eral aspect of the body and in the oil droplet layer, are
cells of varying sizes. The larger cells have a clear, round, un-
stained cytoplasm in the sections stained with haematoxylin and
eosin. The nuclei are large and vesicular and the chromatic ele-
ments stain deeply (Figs. 11 and 14). The number of these cells
varies in the scales of the different parts of the body, being prob-
ably more numerous along the mid-dorsal stripe. In fresh speci-
mens it was practically impossible to distinguish them with accu-
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racy. These cells were not described by Carlton, but Keller has
described similar cells for the chameleon and named them zan-
thophores, and Pouchet also described similar cells for the chame-
leon and believed that they contained fat droplets of 2.5 microns.
He believed these cells to be analogous to the yellow cells of batra-
chians and that they possessed the power of contractility. Keller
also believed that they could expand or contract for he found them
varying markedly in size. Doctor Irving Hardesty suggests that
these cells secrete or control the accumulation of the oil droplet
layer described above.
If Keller and Pouchet be correct in their assumption that these
large clear cells may expand, one might reason that during this
state they practically fill the entire space between the epidermis
and the underlying layer and force the yellow droplet layer towards
the periphery of the scale so that it no longer influences the color
states.
For reasons which will be taken up later, I believe that the
mechanism is not quite as Keller would have one believe, although
undoubtedly these cells are more numerous and almost replace
the oil droplet layer in the white scales of the mid-dorsal stripe.
If these large, spherical cells in Anolis are the zanthophores of
Keller, and they resemble very closely those he figures and de-
scribes, Carlton is wrong in stating that these cells do not exist
in Anolis.
The Leucophore or Guanophore Layer.—The layer lying just be-
neath the layer of oil droplets presents very marked differences
from any of the structures previously described. In vertically
sectioned scales, stained with haematoxylin and eosin, it is seen
that this layer is thicker near the center of the scale and then
gradually thins out until it disappears at the periphery. The layer
forms then an inverted cup which thins out at the edges and fits
into the hollow epidermal scale but does not come in immediate
contact with it because of the intervening oil droplet layer. It is
present in all the scales of the skin including those of the ventral
aspect of the body (Figs. 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, r4and17). By reflected
light it appears as a homogeneous bluish-white band (Fig. 10 B),
and this appearance is not lost in those sections fixed in the fluid
mentioned and stained with haematoxylin and eosin. Bits of the
layer may be found isolated in the deeper fibrous layer, recogniz-
able by the bluish-white color.
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By allowing a minimal amount of light to come through the
condenser of the microscope, the layer has a most brilliant opales-
cent appearance. In unstained, freshly fixed formalin sections, by
transmitted light, it has a pale brownish appearance (Fig. 1o A),
but in stained sections it appears darker and greenish brown (Figs.
II, 12, 13 and 14).
Fig. ro, Aand B, represents the appearance of an unstained sec-
tion of the layer by reflected and transmitted light. By reflected
light this layer appears as a bluish-white cloud which obliterates
the underlying structures, or at least makes them appear hazy and
indistinct.
In both the stained and unstained vertical sections the layer is
seen to be composed of parallel rows of somewhat irregular blocks,
their long axes being parallel to the outline of the epidermis.
These blocks are of varying size and asymmetrical shape, and un-
doubtedly possess small, deeply staining nuclei. Some sections
show these nuclei better than others. The vertical section gives
little idea of their morphology for when seen in tangentially cut
sections they appear very irregular in outline and possess short
pseudopodoid processes which may terminate in hooklike expan-
sions or branches. Every conceivable shape exists and no simi-
larity exists in these bodies except in their marked irregularity
(Fig 14). In some sections these cells appear syncytial, for their
processes are in juxtaposition, thus leaving numerous openings of
various sizes between these apparently joined processes. Through
these openings run the branches of the melanophores (Figs. 14
and 17). That really no syncytium exists appears likely, for in
vertical sections no such connections between the processes can be
made out. When viewed from above, the area around the nucleus
has a bluish cast while the periphery is a pale greenish brown.
One can conclude then that the cells of this layer are fairly thick,
irregular plates of fairly uniform thickness throughout but with a
marked irregular outline.
Carlton describes a somewhat similar layer in the scale of Anolis
which he calls the ochrophore layer and which he considers analo-
gous to the ochrophore layer of Keller for the chameleon. He
believes that this layer produces the green color and finds that by
reflected light it appears bluish green and by transmitted light
yellowish green. From the micro-photographs accompanying his
paper, one cannot be mistaken as to the identity of the layer in
question. He has noted the block-like, parallel arrangement in
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the vertical section and also the irregular appearance in the tan-
gential section, stating that it had the appearance of a more or less
homogeneous mass, irregular in outline, and penetrated in many
places by the processes of the melenophores but he was unable to
make out any cellular structure and denied the existence of nuclei
except between the blocks. Why he should believe this layer to be
the ochrophore layer of Keller, I am unable to say. He admits
that its arrangement differs from Keller’s ochrophore layer.
If Carlton’s ochrophore layer is responsible for the green state
in Anolis, why is this layer present on the ventral aspect of the
animal where no green color is ever present?
Keller states that this ochrophore layer is almost entirely
absent on the ventral aspect of the body of the chameleon, yet
Carlton, in spite of these differences in structure and position,
attempts to make these two layers analogous. Furthermore,
Carlton’s ochrophore layer closely fits the description of Keller’s
leucophore layer, which latter Carlton states does not exist in
Anolis.
Undoubtedly the layer in Anolis is the same as that in the
chameleon except for possibly minor differences.
Briicke described in the chameleon a white or yellow pigment
which he finds separated into two layers, the inner being thicker
and made up of closely packed colorless particles with rounded
boundaries, which reflect light, resulting in the white appearance.
He believes these reflecting granules to be the product of cells
whose processes force themselves between the dermal structures
and lie between the epidermis and the underlying connective
tissue. In these two layers he evidently includes both the ochro-
phore layer and the leucophore layer of Keller.
Pouchet has also described this layer and considers the white,
dust-like material as the products of cells which, by the growth of
the neighboring tissue, have been pressed into plates, and Keller
describes these plates or blocks which he names leucophores. He
considers their content similar to that found in the scales of cer-
tain fish described by Kiihne and which are said to be composed
of guanine. The fact that both react positively to the murexide
test leads to this assumption. He believes, as does Pouchet, that
these leucophores have been pressed into plates by the pressure
of the overlying and underlying tissues and that their edges adapt
themselves to the neighboring structures due to the mechanical
resistance of the latter, and, in consequence, assume very irregular
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shapes except in those regions where no such pressure is exerted.
In regions where no pressure is exerted, they are rounded and lie
close together in the wide meshes of the connective tissue.
I was unable to verify Keller’s observations that the leucophores
were rounded in those regions where the mechanical resistance is
less, for those isolated cells which were noted by me showed in
reality even greater irregularity, when seen in vertical section,
than those in the leucophore layer proper. That the peculiar plate
or block-like shape and the arrangement of these in parallel rows
may be due to the pressure of the dense connective tissue from
below seems likely, but only careful: observations of the skin in
various stages of development can determine this point.
The white, dust-like material of Pouchet, the white pigment of
Briicke, or the granules of Keller, which were described in the
leucophores, were not noted by me in Anolis. The cytoplasm of
these cells even in the fresh state was clear and apparently free
from granules. This finding is interesting in that one would
expect the reflecting power of these cells to be due to the denser
granules, and probably such granules do exist but were invisible
because of methods I employed in the study of these cells.
No differences in shape or position were noted in the leucophore
layer in the green and brown state. The cells of the layer seem
to retain their characteristic appearance and relationship no mat-
ter what color state of the skin existed. Carlton makes the same
observation for his so-called ochrophore layer.
The blue coloration of the melanophores by reflected light de-
scribed for the scales of the ventral aspect of the body is undoubt-
edly due to the leucophore layer as is also the white appearance
of these scales. This will be touched upon later.
The Melanophores—Lying between the leucophore layer and
the underlying connective tissue layer, and partially imbedded in
both, are the melanophores described by Keller for the chameleon
(Figs. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17).
In Anolis three types of pigment cells are found, namely, those
in the dorso-lateral scales which differ from those in the ventral
scales by their smaller size and more delicate branching, those in
the ventral scales, and a third type which is commonly situated
just beneath the epidermis between the scales. The melanophores
show a striking resemblance to the Purkinje cells as seen in Golgi
preparations. A line passing through the cell bodies of the ma-
jority of them would be more or less parallel to the epidermis except
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at the periphery of the scale where they more closely approach
the surface. A few cell bodies lie above or below this imaginary
line, but in thick sections the bodies of the melanophores form a
fairly thick, dark-brown layer of fairly regular width.
The melanophores are best studied in vertical sections of the
fixed material stained with haematoxylin and eosin. It was found
unnecessary to use the methods adopted by Keller and others to
bring out the finer branches of these cells, for in most of the prepa-
rations these were clearly visible.
The cell body is more or less rounded but considerable difference
exists among them, some being much narrower than others (Figs.
t1and 12). The surface facing the epidermis is often concave but
rarely it may be convex or apical. The nucleus may be round,
oval, reniform, horseshoe-shaped or even double in rare instances.
In some preparations it takes a fairly deep blue stain and has a
vesicular appearance (Figs. 11, 15 and 17). The concavity when
present is directed towards the epidermis.
Coming off from the sides of the outer surface of the cell body
are a varying number of permanent branches which run either
vertically toward the inner surface of the epidermis or present a
lateral curvature. The curvature may even be so marked that,
at the proximal part, the branches may be directed first down-
wards and laterally and then gradually curve laterally and up-
wards (Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 15). These branches run through the
spaces among the leucophores and, as they approach the surface,
lateral branches in turn give off further branches. This tree-like
branching continues until beneath the under surface of the epi-
dermis a layer of fine terminal branches exists.
The contents of the melanophores consists of a varying amount
of fine pigment granules imbedded in a mass of faintly brown,
poorly staining cytoplasm. The arrangement and distribution of
the pigment granules depends on the color state of the skin, being
almost absent in the smaller branches in the green state but present
even in the terminal branches in the brown state. Under the oil
immersion lens the poorly staining cytoplasm may be followed
even in the finest branches lying beneath the epidermis. Follow-
ing them is, however, greatly facilitated by the presence of isolated
pigment granules which have failed to migrate with the general
mass of pigment.
The pigment granules are oval in shape and brown under
magnification. Their number varies markedly, irrespective of the
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distribution of the pigment. The number varies not only in
melanophores in the same scale, but also melanophores of one
scale may contain more pigment than those of another. Also the
intensity of the color of the pigment may vary, individual or
groups of melanophores containing a lighter brown pigment than
others. This appears to be irrespective of the number of granules.
These differences in amount and intensity in color are so striking
that there is no doubt as to their occurrence (Figs. rr, 12 and 13).
In the green state of the skin of Anolis (Figs. 10 and rr) the pig-
ment granules are present only in the bodies and proximal parts
of the primary branches of the melanophores. This proximal
migration of the pigment is practically complete and the finer
distal branches are clear and transparent. In some of these finer
branches, however, a few scattered pigment granules may have
failed to follow the mass of pigment and their presence allows one
to detect more readily the finer branches. The bodies of the melan-
ophores during the proximal migration of the pigment are neces-
sarily darker than after distal migration. In proximal migration
of the pigment it is noticed in the primary branches of the melano-
phores that there is an area of gradation between the dense pig-
ment on one side and the clear part on the other side where the
pigment is much less dense. In this portion the pigment granules
apparently arrange themselves in parallel rows (Figs. 11 and 15).
This parallel arrangement has also been observed by Keller in the
chameleon.
In the brown state (Figs. 12 and 13) the finest branches lying
immediately beneath the epidermis are filled with closely packed
pigment. This gives the appearance of a thin, dark-brown layer
lying just beneath the epidermis in vertical section. One might
conclude that, in order that this appearance can be produced, the
terminal branches must anastomose and form a plexus. That this
is not the case, however, may be readily determined in tangentially
cut secticns where the terminal branches appear as separated but
closely packed, dark-brown dots (Fig. 14). Keller makes this
observation for the chameleon and Carlton for Anolis.
It is probable that the green state of Anolis does not represent
the maximum degree of proximal migration of the pigment. In
certain scales, pigment may be absent even in the primary branches
and be confined entirely to the cell body which appears like a dark
brown or black sphere. Furthermore the pigment may be con-
densed to such a degree that a clear broad halo of cytoplasm may
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surround a central compacted mass of pigment (Fig. r5 A and B).
These peculiar melanophores are often bilaterally arranged and
present in a group of from two to three scales on each side of the
body. This bilateral arrangement appears too marked to be acci-
dental. Melanophores in this condition must explain the yellow
colors and white scales often to be observed in the living Anolis.
Besides the distal and proximal migration of the pigment, any
degree of migration may be present, namely, all but the terminal
branches may be filled with pigment, or the terminal branches may
contain scattered pigment, and so on. All of these conditions in-
fluence the color state of the skin and must be associated with
definite color states.
The number of melanophores varies considerably in the various
scales, but the average for those of the lateral aspect of the body
is about fifty in number. This number is greatly reduced in the
scales along the mid-dorsal line which are white and in which ten
to fifteen pale brown melanophores appear to be the usual number.
The latter are slightly smaller and their branches are more delicate
and spread out more than the others. In the mid-dorsal line of
other specimens where no white stripe exists but where color
changes resemble those of the lateral aspect of the body, the me-
lanophores cannot be distinguished from the others and appear in
about the same number.
The melanophores in the scales, on the ventral aspect of the
body are from five to twelve in number. Their bodies are larger
and more rounded and possess fewer primary branches. The
terminal branches are followed with greater difficulty to the
periphery. The pigment is usually thickly packed in the cell
bodies giving the cells a dark-brown color. The nucleus due to
this increased amount of pigment is rarely observed (Fig. 8).
The pigment cells lying in the spaces between the scales vary
markedly in number and position and, aside from their possession
of branches and pigment content, show little resemblance to the
true melanophores (Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 16). They more nearly
resemble ordinary mesenchymal pigment corpuscles. The body
resembles a flattened disc as is readily seen by comparing the verti-
cal diameter as seen in vertical section (Fig. 13) with the horizontal
diameter as seen from above (Fig. 16). The primary branches are
thick and irregular and vary considerably in length. The terminal
branches are short and terminate broadly in club-like ends. The
cells are present just beneath the epidermis between the scales,
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their branches spreading out and lying parallel to it. These cells
may often be found in the deeper tissues of the body and give the
impression of their being able to wander between the tissues
(Fig. 13). That these cells may be converted into melanophores
seems possible.
That the pigment granules migrate in the fixed pseudopodic
processes of the melanophores, instead of an amoeboid extension
of and retraction of the processes themselves, is very probable.
This migration has been clearly illustrated by Keller and Briicke
for the chameleon, Carlton for Anolis, Degner for Praunus flexuosus,
Kahn and Lieben for Rana temporaria and Spaeth for Fundulus
heteroclitus. Parker believes that the pigment migration is true
for Phyrnosoma and, further, states that the migration of pigment
in melanophores is influenced by light and temperature, either
light or low temperature causing a distal migration and absence
of light or high temperature causing a proximal migration.
Although fully agreeing that the melanophores and _ their
processes remain fixed and that their pigment undergoes migration,
I am unable to see how any set of factors influence all melano-
phores similarly. Under precisely similar conditions the melano-
phores of the lateral aspect of the body may contain proximally
migrated pigment, whereas the melanophores of the mid-dorsal
stripe or melanophores of isolated scales may have the pigment
in the terminal branches. In a single animal, in any color state,
many exceptions may be found to the rule laid down by Parker.
Gold chloride preparations repeatedly fail to reveal any nerve
endings terminating on the bodies of the melanophores but that
these exist seems most probable. Pouchet described a smaller
pigment-bearing cell which he termed the erythrophore and which
closely resembled the melanophore except that it contained a
purplish-red pigment. Briicke overlooked these cells of Pouchet,
but according to Keller, the cells only occur on the lateral scales of
the chameleon in any great number and are not present in all indi-
viduals. Keller described gradation forms, cells containing both
brown and red granules in different proportions. Some cells may
contain only a few red granules among brown ones while others may
contain only a few brown ones, the greater proportion being red.
Carlton was unable to find erythrophores in the skin of Anolis
and denied their existence. I believe that Carlton is correct, for
if these cells be present they must be extremely rare. No red pig-
ment granules were observed in any melanophores of my sections.
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It seems likely, however, that the pigment granules vary consid-
erably in the intensity of their color as has already been stated.
This conclusion is reached not only from a study of the pigment
granules in the melanophores but also from their effect on the
color of the skin. There is little doubt that a condensed mass of
pigment will produce a darker brown than more scattered pigment,
but the former will always be brown and can never be black or
brick-red.
If this be true, then the melanophores producing the post-
orbital black patch must contain black pigment granules and
those producing the brick-red stripe must contain reddish-brown
granules. Furthermore, it is possible that an individual scale may
contain melanophores of two or more kinds of pigment content
and that these may act independently of one another. This is
suggested by the microscopic appearance as well as the appearance
of either a brick-red, brown, or black state in the scales of the mid-
dorsal and the post-orbital stripes. Undoubtedly the amount of
pigment present plays an important role, but many of these differ-
ences cannot be satisfactorily explained. Partial distal migration
may be responsible for a lighter brown color than maximal distal
migration, but only up to a certain point. Any distal migration
beyond this is not associated with a still lighter brown state but
with a slaty or greenish-gray color.
The Connective Tissue Layer.—Lying beneath the leucophore
layer, running into the concavity of the scale for a variable distance
but approaching more closely the epidermis at the edges of the
scale, is a fairly dense layer of white, fibrous connective tissue
(Figs. 8, 10, rz, r2 and 13). The fibres appear to run parallel but
on closer inspection many vertical and oblique ones may be noted.
The vertical fibres may be traced as they ascend among the cells
of the leucophore layer where they break up into small fibril
bundles which form a network beneath the epidermis. This layer
takes on a bright pink color with eosin and contains many deeply
staining stellate and spindle shaped nuclei. It is fairly vascular
and nerves may be seen traversing it. Below the concavity of the
scale are present fat corpuscles and large blood vessels (Figs. 11,
12 and 13). Beneath the dense connective tissue separating the
skin from the underlying skeletal muscles, there is present a loose
areolar connective tissue. Fine free pigment granules forming a
fine line between the denser connective tissue and the looser
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areolar tissue, may be seen in many sections. Free granules of red
color aid in giving the red color to the extended throat-fan.
The skin is extremely vascular but more so in some regions than
in others. Larger vessels run beneath the denser connective
tissue layer and run parallel with it, dipping into the scale. From
these vessels branches are given off which run through the denser
connective tissue and also through the leucophore layer to
directly supply the epidermis (Fig. 13). It seems not improbable
that a vaso-dilatation occurring under and in the leucophore
layer, may exert a modifying influence on the color states. The
pink color of the mid-dorsal stripe may be explained by the effect
of a vaso-dilatation on a white stripe, and the red appearance of the
throat-fan is no doubt in part due to blood, as well as to granules
of red pigment in the subcutaneous connective tissue, which shows
through the spaces between the scales.
On THE MECHANISM OF THE COLOR CHANGES
The essential structures present for the production of the
various color states are the epidermis, the yellow oil droplet layer,
the leucophore layer, the melanophores, and, possibly, the zantho-
phores and the cutaneous blood supply.
The skin of the scale is made up of four superimposed, inverted,
hollow, cup-like layers, the outer being the epidermis. Next to
this is the oil droplet layer, then the leucophore layer, and lastly,
the connective tissue layer which, however, supports the integrity
of the whole.
The first and last named layers are continuous with those of the
neighboring scales, but the second and third are limited to the
scale.
The epidermis is a transparent layer which acts largely as a
protecting and supporting structure and, through interference
phenomena, acts slightly, if at all, as a factor in the color states.
The second or yellow oil droplet layer presents a thin trans-
parent yellow medium which is extremely important in the pro-
duction of many of the color states. In and superficial to it lie
the fine terminals of the branches of the melanophores. The large
zanthophores also lie in it and extend inward into the next layer.
The oil droplets give a strong, bright color by transmitted light,
but seem to reflect but little light (Fig. ro Aand B). It seems to
act more as a filter than as a reflector. White light reflected from
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the underlying layer, when passing through this yellow medium,
must be so acted upon as to give the yellow.
The leucophore layer, lying just internal to the oil droplet layer,
acts essentially as a reflecting layer. It reflects a large proportion
of the light which falls upon it, but it also screens the light to a
great extent from the underlying brown melanophores so that
pigment granules, when only in the bodies of the melanophores,
exert but little influence on the color states of the skin. On the
other hand, however, if the primary branches of the melanophores,
which pierce this layer, are filled with pigment, the light which
falls on it is reflected as blue light (Fig. to B). Further, cell
bodies of the melanophores, lying internal to the leucophore layer,
appear blue by reflected light in the scales of the ventral surface
of the body in which the yellow oil droplet layer is very scant and
in places absent (Fig. 7 B). Evidently then, the leucophore layer
in part reflects all the rays of white light and also absorbs all but
the blue rays from the light passing through it and reflected from
the brown pigment within and internal to it. Traversing this
leucophore layer are the large branches of the melanophores, con-
nective tissue, and finer blood vessels. Partly imbedded in the
lower stratum and beneath it are the melanophores. Fig. 17 is an
attempt to show in perspective the various layers and their relation
to one another.
The only layer that remains fixed and present in all scales and
not subject to variations is the leucophore layer. All the other
elements may be either absent, increased, decreased, or subject to
marked variations. All of these other elements function in con-
junction with the leucophore layer and either by allowing it to
be unobscured, partially obscured, or by entirely shutting it off
from the light, produce the color phenomena. The appearance of
white and pale blue, as found on the ventral aspect of the body or
along the mid-dorsal stripe, may be explained as due to the oil
droplet layer being either absent or that it has been forced to the
edges of the scale. A purely white scale must mean that the mel-
anophores are either absent or greatly diminished in number, and
very pale blue scales, that their pigment granules must have
migrated entirely into the bodies of the cells. This allows the
leucophore layer to act alone as a reflecting layer without the in-
fluence of any other element. In addition, the stratum corneum
of the scales of the ventral surface is slightly thicker than in other
regions, and this greater thickness, with the markedly developed
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keel of the scale found here, no doubt results in more light being
reflected from the outer surface of the scale and thus a whiter
appearance. It seems probable that by a vaso-dilatation of the
superficial capillaries a pink color may be imparted to the white
scales. Further, in addition to the blood capillaries, red pigment
is manifestly present in the subcutaneous connective tissue of the
throat-fan.
If, in the white scales, melanophores are present and send out
pigment into the primary and larger branches, the light, which is
now acted upon by the leucophore layer, is returned as blue.
Decidedly blue scales are rare except in isolated scales on the
lateral aspect of the body. Along the mid-dorsal stripe and on
the ventral aspect, melanophores are too few in number to influence
the color beyond a pale blue. I injected brown pigment (potassium
bichromate solution) into the skin of the belly, and a blue color was
readily produced. Higgins’ brown ink furnishes the same result
in the same way.
The yellow or orange appearance may be readily explained by
the presence of the yellow oil droplet layer through which light
from the leucophore layer must be transmitted. The melano-
phores, in the case of the yellow skin, must contain the pigment
in their bodies, and the branches must be free of pigment. The
degree of yellow color depends on the amount of oil droplets, the
straw-yellow color being associated with a lesser amount than
the deep yellow. Pale yellow is often present on the ventral
aspect of some lizards due to the presence of a small amount of
this substance.
The emerald green is brought about by the migration of pig-
ment into the primary and larger branches of the melanophores.
Now the light which is reflected from the leucophore layer, due to
the presence of pigment granules, is blue, and this blue, in pass- —
ing through the yellow oil droplet layer, mixes with yellow rays
given by this layer and appears at the surface as green. By
further distal migration of the pigment granules, light from the
leucophore layer assumes a deeper blue which in turn produces
the bluish-green color of the skin.
By a still more distal migration of the pigment a muddy,
greenish gray appears which, as the migration proceeds, becomes
brownish gray, then light brown and, lastly, a deep mahogany
brown is produced, which indicates that distal migration has pro-
ceeded till the granules have accumulated immediately beneath
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the epidermis sufficiently to block the action of both the yellow
oil droplets and the leucophore layer. The pigment granules now
act entirely alone and produce the brown state (Figs. 12 and 13).
Whether the yellow oil droplet layer can be dispersed under
varying stimuli in those scales where it normally exists, that is,
whether it is possible for a lateral green scale to assume the white
or bluish state in a short space of time, is difficult to say. If, as is
held by Keller for the chameleon, the zanthophores possess the
power of dilating and can take up all the space held previously
by the oil droplet layer and thus displace the latter to the edges of
the scale, it would at least be possible for a fairly rapid change to
occur from green to white. Pouchet, however, believes the zan-
thophores of the chameleon to be of yellow color and if this be so,
Keller’s explanation would not be valid. The zanthophores of
Anolis appear transparent in all the conditions under which I could
observe them. They seem to be absent in the skin of the ventral
surface of the body. However, my observations are by far too
meager for me to draw any definite conclusions. It is true that
the zanthophores seem greatly increased in the white scales of the
mid-dorsal stripe and that they form a transparent fairly thick
layer between the epidermis and the leucophore layer.
The objections to Keller’s views are that if the zanthophores
are able to disperse the oil droplet layer by dilating, they would
probably also disturb the arrangement of the terminal branches
of the melanophores, which we know does not take place. One
would also conclude that these cells must be under the control of
the nervous system. No conclusions can be reached without
observing the living animals for long periods of time and noting
the changes of these white areas. Possibly the white areas are
merely variations and are more or less permanent. Black or brick-
red stripes may be also variations in the distally migrated pigment.
The following table presents in a concise manner the mechanism
involved in the various color states. Keller’s theory in regard to
the behavior of the zanthophores is included as a possibility,
since their attributed function becomes necessary to explain
white and blue changes in certain cutaneous areas, if these occur
with any degree of rapidity.
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TABLE 3
Oil
CoLor STATE Droplet | Zantho- | Leuco- | Melano-
Layer phore phore phore
: absent or ®
Wes oa aicie es dispersed | or absent C4 e
absent or ®
BYE: ons nace ¢ dispersed | or absent ae @ ;
absent or Cs) fi vaso-
Rinks 222 seca dispersed | or absent ® dilatation
partially
Straw yellow...... dispersed oe: i ©
10)
Golden yellow..... cS or absent Ey ®
0)
Emerald green.... a | or absent e) ae
10)
Bluish green...... c= or absent ES) e2
‘ {i fo) Fs
Grayish green..... 1. | or absent il 2
10) CN
Brownish green.... 2. | or absent 2. @ 4
; (9) IO ry
Light brown...... or absent 3: 3:
(0) - brown pig-
Mahogany brown.. or absent — o ment granules
a brick-red
Brick-red......... Ls os] ode ay fe) pigment
or absent granules
Black........ 0... © pepe st
or absent granules
(-_Junobstructed, MMMM partially obscured, BMI obscured, © dilatation
of zanthophore, © contraction of zanthophore, O maximum distal migration
of pigment, ® partial distal migration of pigment, ® maximum proximal migra-
tion of pigment. No. 1-5 indicate comparative degrees of either obscuration
or migration.
For the final solution of this problem of the color changes in
Anolis, three methods of attack must be carried on and one must
not lose sight of any one of them: Carefully controlled physio-
logical experiments, histological studies of the skin, and careful
Vor. X] VON GELDERN—SKIN OF ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS 109
observations over long periods of time of the habits and color
states of these ‘izards in their natural environment. ‘The first
method of attack is always open to criticism so long as the experi-
ments are not carefully controlled; for instance in none of the
experiments performed by either Parker and Starratt or Carlton
were the factors of varying external stimuli taken into con-
sideration.
Lizards kept for long periods in confinement may give one set
of results but one is not justified in drawing any general con-
clusions as to the behavior of all lizards.
I wish to thank Doctor Hardesty and Doctor Garey for their
helpful suggestions.
SUMMARY
1. In its color changes, Anolis carolinensis shows a greater
variety of colors than has been usually described for this animal.
It may at times take on other colors than the emerald green,
mahogany brown, and the variations intermediate between these.
The variations, though apparently less frequent, correspond
fairly closely with the variations described for Chameleon vulgaris.
2. The color changes, in addition to general variations in Anolis
carolinensis, as observed in its natural environment especially,
seem to be induced by variations in external stimuli. Rhythmic
changes of color may be observed with the animal in the same
position with unchanged temperature and light, and emotional
states interpreted as fear, sexual excitement, and anger (prelim-
inary to and during combat) seem to more actively bring
about color changes than temperature and light. Color changes
in sympathy with environment (protective coloration) seem
probable.
3. In structure, the skin of Anolis resembles that described
by other investigators for Chameleon vulgaris, except no ‘‘Negative
Relief Schicht’’ could be distinguished in the stratum corneum of
the epidermis, and no cells corresponding exactly to the eryth-
rophores of Pouchet could be determined. Also the oil droplet
layer described here for Anolis is not the same as the ochrophore
layer described by Keller for Chameleon.
4. The observations of Carlton that the processes of the mel-
anophores in Anolis are fixed or non-amoeboid and that migration
of the pigment granules occurs within them, is hereby confirmed.
In this the melanophores are similar to those described for
110 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H SER.
Chameleon, Fundulus heteroclitus, Rana temporaria, and other
color-changing animals.
5. The color changes in Anolis depend upon the reciprocal
physical action of four layers of the skin: the epidermis, the
yellow oil droplet layer, the leucophore layer and the melano-
phores. The physical characters making possible light inter-
ference and absorption, and the mixing of transmitted and
. reflected rays, modified by the migration of pigment to different
positions in these layers, result in the varieties of color apparent
at the surface of the skin at different times and on different locali-
ties of the body. The red coloration of the throat-fan is due to a
rich capillary plexus and to the presence of a red coloring matter
in the deeper layers. The effect of vaso-dilatation is also apparent
in the pink stripe noted occasionally along the mid-dorsal line.
6. The oil droplet layer and the leucophore layer in general
remain fixed and the various color states depend on the migration
of the pigment granules in the fixed processes of the melanophores.
Maximal proximal migration of the pigment is associated with
yellow, while maximal distal migration produces dark mahogany
brown. In the emerald green state the pigment lies in the primary
and larger branches of the melanophores. Further distal migration
is associated with bluish-green or slaty-gray color states depend-
ing on the degree.
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DESCRIPTION OF PLATES
PLaTE 7, Fics. 1-5
Camera-lucida outlines of scales of various parts of the body.
PLaTE 8, Fic. 6
(A). External surface of the skin of the lateral aspect under low
power by transmitted light, showing yellow scales and indistinct
melanophores (M).
(B). The same as above by reflected light showing the green
scales with areas of brown pigmentation.
(C). Internal surface of the same skin by reflected light showing
the blue scales with distinct dark melanophores (M).
Pate 8, Fic. 7
(A). External surface of the skin of the ventral aspect under
low power by transmitted light showing the pale straw-colored
scales with their indistinct melanophores (M).
(B). the same as above by reflected light showing the white
scales with indistinct blue melanophores (M).
(C). Internal surface of the same by transmitted light showing
the straw-colored scales with their distinct melanophores.
PiatTeE 7, Fic. 8
Vertical section of a portion of the ventral scale (oil immersion)
showing the stratum corneum (st. corn.), stratum germinativum
(st. germ.), the leucophore layer (leuc.), a single melanophore
(melan.), and the connective tissue (conn. tiss.).
PLaTE 7, Fic. 9
Scraping of the stratum corneum under oil immersion showing
a group of squamous cells with their stippled appearance.
PLATE 9, Fic. to (High Dry Power)
(A). Vertical section of a lateral scale in the green state by
transmitted light, freshly hardened with twenty per cent formalin
and unstained. This shows the transparent epidermis, the under-
lying layer of yellow oil droplets (O), the layer of leucophores (L),
the melanophores with their numerous branches (M), and the
underlying layer of connective tissue (C).
(B). The same by reflected light showing the bluish-white
leucophore layer (L) and the black melanophores (M). The
latter appear blue when lying beneath the former. The yellow oil
droplet layer scarcely reflects any light.
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PLaTE 9, Fic. rr (Oil immersion)
Vertical section of a lateral scale in the green state, stained
with haemotoxylin and eosin showing the various layers of the
epidermis and corium. Small amounts of pigment appear in the
terminal branches of the melanophores but the mass appears in
the cell bodies.
PLaTE 9, Fic. 12 (Oil immersion)
Vertical section of a lateral scale in the brown state stained
with haemotoxylin and eosin showing the pigment lying just
beneath the epidermis.
PLaTE 9, Fic. 13 (Oil immersion)
Vertical section of a dorso-lateral scale in the brown state
stained with haemotoxylin and eosin showing the pigment cells (P)
and a blood vessel, lying just beneath the connective tissue layer,
sending a branch through all the layers and which ends just
beneath the epidermis. The leucocytes are evident.
PiateE 9, Fic. 14 (Oil immersion)
Tangential section of a lateral scale in the brown state showing
the pigment in the terminal branches of the melanophores (T),
the pigment just beneath the epidermis (E), the leucophores with
their bizarre outlines (L), the secondary branches of the melano-
phores piercing the openings between the melanophores (S), and
the bodies of the melanophores with their primary branches (M).
PuaTeE 8, Fic. 15 (Oil immersion)
(A). Melanophores occasionally found showing a central migra-
tion of the pigment in the body of the cell, forming a rounded mass
surrounded by a halo of clear cytoplasm.
(B). Melanophores frequently found showing an almost com-
plete proximal migration of the pigment. Practically no pigment
exists even in the primary branches. The nuclei are evident.
PLaTE 9, Fic. 16 (Oil immersion)
Pigment cell seen from above. These cells are found in the
spaces between the scale and throughout the entire body. In
vertical section these cells appear flat.
PLATE 7, Fic. 17
Reconstruction of the skin of Anolis carolinensis showing the
essential elements necessary for the production of the color states,
namely, the epidermis, yellow oil droplet layer, zanthophores,
leucophores, and melanophores.
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XI
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY
FOR THE YEAR 1920
By C. E. GRUNSKY
President of the Academy
In Academy affairs the year 1920 may be classed as rela-
tively uneventful. Nevertheless some progress has been made.
The membership campaign under the leadership of Mr. M.
Hall McAllister has continued successful. The number of
members has increased from 550 to 927. There were 403 new
members admitted while the loss of members was 20 by death,
5 by resignation, and 1 dropped for arrearages.
The present membership is made up of:
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Hlonoranys Membersircctsiareccite cute steer svers a cist alata (eeltiatal alehata liberate 30
Mrfel Membersiiiateci wos cisiow sisvteccrshelens ree oleuslsrers lee.oee reseleiersianeuere 82
Re LTO WeSlatetra esterase le eete Loves eee rol alaiste siete liaretene lysisle ecarcterocohace tere 20
INSTA EDS N pers toteie vate teratataee ea abate tececenistatera eters eiovateraterekeverscarouensselateeen is 783
The Academy carries on its list of patrons the following
names :
Living
Mr. William B. Bourn Mr. John W. Mailliard
Mr. William H. Crocker Mr. Joseph Mailliard
Mr. Peter F. Dunne Mr. M. Hall McAllister
Mr. Herbert Fleishhacker Mr. Ogden Mills
Mr. Joseph D. Grant Mr. Alexander F. Morrison
Mr. A. Kingsley Macomber Mr. William C. Van Antwerp
Deceased
Mr. William Alvord Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer
Mr. Charles Crocker Mr. James Lick
Mr. John W. Hendrie Mr. Ignatz Steinhart
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Those who were called by death are as follows:
Mrs. Mary K. Brandegee............ Drie hnacteeeeas ceereese April 3, 1920
Dr, John.A. Brashear: 22.2% ose cons. Honorary 242.2 sses0s0 April 9, 1920
Dr. Frank S: Daggetts...02% scccn. 1 Miemb er sxczeaarsceretocraie/-ner= April 5, 1920
Merlin Elellmanierc ccictere cieterciclecrercts Member .,6:-60:60 <ts.c1eos.ce April 9, 1920
Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer............. Patron cecceeses es November 30, 1920
Mr: G. Earle: Kellyssns secs cic.cterc s.cicuwis Member .......... December 15, 1920
Mr. ‘Curtis 2. laindleyi. ccc <acietn. os Member ......... November 20, 1920
Mrs Bruce: Martins ac.os acces cores. Member <5. eccnc o0s 1920
Mir. WW. Montague: ic). <2 cs. Tighe ers ears nelorieee September 28, 1920
MercPercy De dMorganircatee ejscneleis terse Miemberun.ccemecesses April 16, 1920
Mr. Gharles (Ps Punchard:... 4.22.05 Member ............ November, 1920
Dr. Pier Andrea Saccardo.......... Honorary <....0-.. February 12, 1920
Mirscleon Sloss? sictrecste derciaste sees « Member vncau.ceceretiersinver 3 May 5, 1920
Mrs ves Smmthie scares cae sane Like caer aaiooce oe October 12, 1920
Prof. Dr. H. zu Solms-Laubach..... EIONOLary. <---> 1920
Dr. Franz Steindachner............. Honorary 2.0650: December 10, 1919
Mr. Sam: BicStoye isinecccaa since es Member si ec25055..5% August 18, 1920
Mr. Clement. Pobinucsss.scsgececeee Members sac. s.6<0024540 April 3, 1920
Dr: Ramsay H.. Traquair: . 3.662.230 Flonorary 25s asesr November 22, 1912
Mr. Carlos Troyer ........ bs Dae areats Lif@unintegs ones anaes July 26, 1920
Mr. Raphael Weill ..............00- Lit easiocans womens December 9, 1920
The Academy has published during 1920 the following
papers in continuation of the Fourth Series of the Pro-
ceedings:
Vol. II, Part II, No. XVII, pp. 311-345
DERMAPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA,
by Morgan Hebard.
Vol. IX, No. XIII, pp. 331-356
New Hemipterous INSECTS OF THE GENERA ARADUS, PHYTOCORIS AND
CAMPTOBROCHYS,
by Edward P. Van Duzee.
Vol. IX, No. XIV, pp. 357-365
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY FOR THE YEAR 1919,
by C. E. Grunsky.
Vol. IX, No. XV, pp. 367-396
REPORT OF THE DrIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR 1919,
by Barton Warren Evermann.
Vol. X, No. I, pp. 1-27
A FurtTHeR Stupy oF VARIATION IN THE GOPHER-SNAKES OF WESTERN
NortH AMERICA,
by John Van Denburgh.
Vol. X, No. II, pp. 29-30
DEscrIPTION OF A New SPECIES OF RATTLESNAKE (Crotalus lucasensis)
FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA,
by John Van Denburgh,
Vol. X, No. III, pp. 31-32
DeEscripTION OF A NEw Supspecies oF Boa (Charina botte utahensis)
FROM UTAH,
by John Van Denburgh.
Vol. X. No. IV, pp. 33-34
DescripTION OF A New Lizarp (Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis)
FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA,
by John Van Denburgh.
Vor. XJ GRUNSKY—PRESIDENT'’S REPORT FOR 1920 121
Vol. X, No. V, pp. 35-46
UNDESCRIBED TIPULID® (DIPTERA) FROM WESTERN NorTH AMERICA,
by Charles P. Alexander.
Vol. X, No. VI, pp. 47-49
Turee New Species or DoLicHopopip”® (DIPTERA) FROM CALIFORNIA
AND NeEvapa,
by M. C. Van Duzee.
Vol. X, No. VII, pp. 51-52
Two New Species oF SYRPHIDH (DIPTERA),
by A. L. Lovett.
Vol. X, No. VIII, pp. 53-70
Notes oN SoME UNDESCRIBED CALIFORNIAN HELICES,
by S. Stillman Berry.
Vol. X, No. IX, pp. 71-75
A New GENUS AND SPECIES OF GRASSHOPPER FROM CALIFORNIA,
by Morgan Hebard.
During the year 1920, 11 free lectures have been delivered
at the stated meetings of the Academy, as follows:
JANuary 7. “The Vegetation of New Zealand.”
Mr. A. H. Cockayne, Government Biologist of New
Zealand.
Marcu 3. “American Aquariums.”
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Mu-
seum, California Academy of Sciences.
ApRIL 7. “A Commodity Unit to Supplement Money as a Standard
of Value.”
Dr. C. E. Grunsky, President, California Academy of
Sciences.
May 5. “Some Bird Observations on the University Campus.”
Mr. Tracy I. Storer, Field Naturalist, Museum of Ver-
tebrate Zoology, University of California.
June 2. “The Work of the Audubon Society.”
Mr. C. B. Lastreto, Organizer and Ex-President of the
Audubon Association of the Pacific.
Jury 7. “The Birds and Mammals of the Stikine Region, British
Columbia.”
Mr. H. S. Swarth, Curator of Birds, Museum of Ver-
tebrate Zoology, University of California.
Avcust 4. “The Botanical Features of Mount Tamalpais.”
Miss Alice Eastwood, Curator of Botany, California
Academy of Sciences.
SEPTEMBER 1. “Injurious Insects.”
Mr. E. O. Essig, Assistant Professor of Entomology,
University of California.
OcTOoBER 6. “Hunting Grizzlies with Bow and Arrow.”
Dr. Saxton Pope, Assistant Clinical Professor of Sur-
gery, University of California,
NovVEMBER 3. ane Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress and the Hawaiian
slands.”
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Mu-
seum, California Academy of Sciences.
DeceMBER 1. “Birds, Fur Seals, Foxes and Other Animals of the Pribi-
lof Islands, Alaska.”
Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, Curator of Invertebrate Paleon-
tology, California Academy of Sciences.
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The Sunday afternoon lectures delivered in the Museum
building during 1920 have included the following:
January 4.
January 11.
January 18.
January 25.
Fesruary 1.
Fesruary 8.
Fesruary 15.
Fesruary 22.
Fesruary 29.
Marcu 7.
Marc# 14.
MarcH 21.
Marcu 28.
APRIL 4.
Apri 11.
Apri 18.
Aprit 25.
May 2.
California’s Fur-Bearers.
Dr. H. C. Bryant, in charge Education and Publicity,
California Fish and Game Commission.
Life History of the Little Smelt or Grunion.
Mr. W. F. Thompson, in charge State Fisheries Lab-
oratory, California Fish and Game Commission.
The Game Warden and His Work.
Mr. J. S. Hunter, Assistant Executive Officer, Califor-
nia Fish and Game Commission.
The Commercial Fisheries of California.
Mr. N. B. Scofield, in charge Commercial Fisheries
Department, California Fish and Game Commission.
The Ocean as an Abode of Life.
Dr. W. K. Fisher, Director, Hopkins Marine Station
of Stanford University.
The Steinhart Aquarium.
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Mu-
seum, California Academy of Sciences.
The ea Meadows, or the Microscopic Life of the Open
ea.
Dr. C. A. Kofoid, Professor of Zoology, University of
California.
Fishes of the California Coast.
Prof. E. C. Starks, Assistant Professor of Zoology,
Stanford University.
Marine Mammals.
Dr. Harold Heath, Professor of Zoology, Stanford
University.
Alaska and the Fur Seals.
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Mu-
seum, California Academy of Sciences.
Life of the Deep Sea.
Prof. J. O. Snyder, Associate Professor of Zoology,
Stanford University.
Oceans of the Past.
Dr. J. P. Smith, Professor of Paleontology, Stanford
University.
Systematic and Economic Phases of California Marine
Alge.
Dr. N. L. Gardner, Assistant Professor of Botany,
University of California.
Life Between Tides.
Dr. W. K, Fisher, Director, Hopkins Marine Station
of Stanford University.
Plant Migrations.
Dr. Douglas H. Campbell, Professor of Botany, Stan-
ford University.
The California Big Trees and History.
Dr. L. L. Burlingame, Associate Professor of Botany,
Stanford University.
Some Plant Diseases.
Prof. J. I. W. McMurphy, Assistant Professor of
Botany, Stanford University.
The Trees of California.
Dr. Leroy Abrams, Associate Professor of Botany,
Stanford Universitv.
Vor. X] GRUNSKY—PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOR 1920 123
May 9. Plants and a Hungry World.
Dr. George J. Peirce, Professor of Botany and Plant
Physiology, Stanford University.
SEPTEMBER 12. The Origin of the Polynesian People.
Dr. W. E. Safford, Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
SEPTEMBER 19. A Recent Visit to the Hawaiian Islands.
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director of the Mu-
seum, California Academy of Sciences.
SEPTEMBER 26. The Solar System.
Dr. W. W. Campbell, Director, Lick Observatory,
Mount Hamilton, California.
OcToBER 3. Comets.
Dr. A. O. Leuschner, Dean of the Graduate Division,
University of California,
OctToBER 10. The Binary Stars.
Dr. R. G. Aitken, Astronomer, Lick Observatory,
Mount Hamilton, California.
Ocroper 17. The Nebule.
Dr. J. H. Moore, Astronomer, Lick Observatory,
Mount Hamilton, California.
OctToBER 24. What We Owe to Animal Experimentation.
Dr. S. J. Holmes, Professor of Zoology, University of
California.
OctToBER 31. Early Ideas of the Earth.
Prof. Earle G. Linsley, Professor of Geology and As-
tronomy, Mills College.
NoveMBER 7. The Spectroscope—A Key to Celestial and Atomic Mys-
teries.
Dr. E. P. Lewis, Professor of Physics, University of
California.
NoveMBER 14. Some Phases of Our Modern Conquest of the Air.
Dr. W. F. Durand, Professor of Mechanical Engineer-
ing, Stanford University.
NoveMBER 21. The Future of the Tropics as a Factor in World Develop-
ment.
Dr. R. S. Holway, Professor of Geography, University
of California.
NoveMBeR 28. Cipher Messages from the Stars.
Dr. J. H. Moore, Astronomer, Lick Observatory, Mount
Hamilton, California.
DECEMBER 5. Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast of North America.—I.
Dr. S. D. Townley, Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Stanford University.
DeEcEMBER 12. Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast of North America.—II.
Dr. S. D. Townley, Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Stanford University.
DECEMBER 19. The United States in Haiti and Santo Domingo.
Mr. M. E. Beall, Berkeley, California.
Ground has not yet been broken for the Steinhart
Aquarium. This is not due to any lack of desire on the part
of the Council and the Trustees to further its early con-
struction. The trust which the Academy has accepted will
be faithfully discharged. More than a year ago the bequest
became available and the sum of $250,000 was paid to the
124 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
Academy. This sum was at once invested and interest has
been accumulating. Dr. Evermann, accompanied by Civil
Engineer T. Ronneberg, has made an inspection trip to all the
notable aquariums in the United States in order that the
Academy may have the advantage of the latest and best ideas
on general arrangement, lighting and operation. The archi-
tect, Mr. Lewis P. Hobart, thereupon made a number of pre-
liminary studies from which it presently became apparent that
the funds at our disposal were not adequate to provide a
building of the size, dignity and architectural finish which
would be required if the aquarium is given the place of
honor in the Academy’s building scheme. It was found im-
practicable, in other words, to put the aquarium to the East
of the unit in which our present exhibits and activities are
housed, where it could be made, if funds permitted, an im-
posing central feature at the rear of an aquatic court. When
this fact became apparent the architect did the next best thing.
He so arranged a design that only a small portion of the ex-
terior of the building would require finishing in stone. But
even with this arrangement under which only a narrow front
of the building would be architecturally ornamental, there has
been difficulty in finding a site at once appropriate and ac-
ceptable to the Board of Park Commissioners. The matter
of selecting a site and of suggesting a building suited to the
site is now in the hands of a joint committee of the Park
Commission and of the Academy.
It is regrettable that the funds placed by bequest at the
disposal of the Academy are limited to an amount which will
not give to San Francisco all that is desired in connection
with a first class, fully equipped aquarium in which the ma-
rine life of the Pacific Ocean and the aquatic life of the
streams which flow into the Pacific Ocean should be ade-
quately represented. Even with extreme restriction of the
exterior ornamentation of the aquarium building it will not
be possible to provide more than about 50 tanks of moderate
size. There will be no space provided in accomplishing this
result for fishery and display exhibits, for research work, or
for offices. The bare housing of the fish tanks, and of the
machinery and appliances required to store, filter, aerate and
cool or heat the water, is all that can be accomplished with
the means at command.
Vor. XJ GRUNSKY—PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOR 1920 125
Some thought has been given to combining with the
aquarium an auditorium or otherwise bringing under the
same roof space that may be used for other purposes, with-
out in any sense detracting from the distinctiveness of the
Steinhart Aquarium. Nothing along this line seems possible
of accomplishment. The aquarium once established will al-
ways be the “Steinhart Aquarium.” Enlargement or exten-
sion by other bequests or endowments is not likely so long
as the features added by such bequests or endowments are
not sufficiently distinctive to perpetuate the names of those
whose generosity prompts their making. Nor does it seem
likely that the City, which is the beneficiary, could be pre-
vailed on in the near future to increase the initial fund.
Nevertheless, before it is too late, this thought is thrown out.
It would indeed be a gracious thing if the City which has
authorized the Academy to accept the bequest and to take
charge of the erection and operation of an aquarium in
Golden Gate Park, would add a like amount. It would
thereby make possible the erection of a dignified structure
adequate for immediate needs and arranged for expansion to
meet any future requirements.
The financial standing of the Academy will appear from
the Treasurer’s report. The endeavor of the Council and of
the Trustees has been to do the utmost that could be done
within our resources as well in the matter of adding to
the material in the Academy’s collections as in research work
and the publication of results. What has been done along
these lines will appear more fully from the report of Dr.
Evermann, the Director of the Museum, and the reports of
the curators of the various departments.
As you were advised a year ago our floating debt which
had been incurred during the erection of the Museum build-
ing, had been wiped out in 1919. This year we note with
satisfaction that our indebtedness on the Academy’s Market
Street property has been reduced by $10,000, from $300,000
to $290,000.
For a grizzly bear habitat group, as was noted in the
President’s last annual report, funds have been provided by
Mr. Ogden Mills and the necessary specimens for the group
have now been secured from the Yellowstone Park without
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expense to the Academy, by Dr. Saxton Pope, assisted by
Arthur Young and G. D. Pope. Permission was granted
by the Park authorities to get four grizzly bear for this pur-
pose. It is expected that before the close of this calendar
year the group will be installed. It will fill the last available
alcove and, thereafter, the need for more exhibit space will be
felt more than ever.
The Academy is a growing institution, as yet but inade-
quately equipped to carry on the activities which should be its
special concern. It should have more housing facilities for
scientific and educational natural history material. It should
be engaged in carrying natural history lessons into the school
rooms of the city and it should have better facilities for popu-
lar lectures on scientific subjects. Despite the present inade-
quate facilities the weekly lectures (Sunday afternoons) have
proved very successful. Their scope appears from the list
submitted. They are attended to the limit of our small audi-
torium’s seating capacity. I am sure that I voice the senti-
ments of all members and friends of the Academy who have
attended any of these lectures, when I say that the kindness
of those who have given the lectures, frequently at no little
personal inconvenience, has been sincerely appreciated.
In the President’s last annual report note was made of the
fact that on appeal to the Supreme Court, the will of Mr. S.
F. Thorn under which the Academy was bequeathed some
land near Santa Cruz and other property, had been sustained.
It was subsequently learned that this decision was not rend-
ered by the Court in banc. Upon further hearing, the Court
in banc reversed the earlier decision, finding that the will was
not holographic because the single word “Cragthorn” had
been inserted with a rubber stamp. The will was declared
illegal and it now appears that the announcement of last year
was at fault and that the Academy takes nothing under the
will.
Among the notable acquisitions of the Academy during the
year is the W. Otto Emerson collection of bird skins, some
5300 in number. Most of the birds represented in this col-
lection, which has great scientific value, are from Alameda
County. It has come to us through the generosity of W. H.
Crocker and John W. Mailliard.
Vor. X] GRUNSKY—PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOR 1920 127
Private subscriptions by a number of friends of the
Academy have made possible the purchase of the Albert
Prager Herbarium, which contains many valuable plant speci-
mens from various parts of the globe. Negotiations for the
transfer of this herbarium from Leipzig, Germany, the home
of Mr. Prager, to the Museum of the Academy, have been
completed.
Your officers again commend the zeal and ability with
which the curators of the Academy’s departments have con-
ducted their work, which goes so far in maintaining the
standing of the Academy as a scientific institution of real
worth. Your officers are appreciative too of the interest
taken by the membership in the activities of the Academy,
and are gratified to note how popular the museum has be-
come as evidenced by the large number of visitors reported
by the Director of the Museum.
The Academy stands ready to enlarge its usefulness. It
can do so materially, however, only through outside help.
As opportunity offers this fact should be made known to
those who are so circumstanced that they can serve mankind
by establishing endowments for useful purposes. They should
know that the Academy is ready to serve.
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XII
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM FOR
THE YEAR 1920
BY
BARTON WARREN EVERMANN
Director of the Museum
The annual report of the Director for the year 1919 was
presented to the Academy at the annual meeting February
18, 1920. At that time all except one of the spaces for large
habitat groups in the mammal and bird halls had been filled.
The one remaining space has been reserved for a Grizzly
Bear Group. The grizzly bear is now extinct in California.
None of us will ever see a living example of that magnificent
animal which figured so prominently in the early history of
the State; it is said there is no really good specimen of the
species in any museum in the world. It has therefore been
decided to put in a habitat group of a closely related species
(Ursus imperator) which occurs in the Yellowstone Park.
Dr. Saxton Pope (a member of the Academy) of San Fran-
cisco, offered to secure the necessary animals, without ex-
pense to the Academy, if the necessary permit were secured.
Application was made to the National Park Service for a
permit for Dr. Pope to kill the necessary animals, the permit
was obtained, and Dr. Pope secured the animals. The taxi-
dermists have begun the preparation of the group which, it is
believed, will be completed by September, 1921.
When Mr. Ogden Mills visited the Museum recently he
was so pleased with what the Academy has already accom-
plished in habitat group installation that he generously gave
his check to the Academy for $5000 to cover the cost of the
proposed Grizzly Bear Group. It is very gratifying to know
that this Museum is so appreciated and the Academy feels
grateful to Mr. Mills for this expression of his appreciation.
Small Habitat Groups.—With the completion of the Grizzly
Bear Group all the available spaces for large groups will have
been utilized. There will remain only spaces for 24 small panel
Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 129
groups—five in the bird hall and 19 in the mammal hall. It
is hoped that all these may be completed within the next few
years.
PERSON NEL
Only a few changes have taken place in the personnel of
the Museum within the year. Mr. William Heim, who was
employed as taxidermist, took indefinite leave August 16,
1920, on account of ill health. It is hoped he may be able
to return at an early date. Mr. Francis G. Gilchrist, who
was employed May 10, 1920, as assistant in the department
of Ornithology and Mammalogy, resigned July 30 to re-enter
the University of California. Harvey R. Scott was employed
as assistant taxidermist from July 28 to August 20. Chase
Littlejohn has been employed as assistant curator, department
of Ornithology and Mammalogy, since September 13.
The employes of the Academy at this date are as follows:
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director and Executive
Curator of the Museum, and Editor; W. W. Sargeant, Secre-
tary to the Board of Trustees; Miss Susie Peers, Secretary
to the Director; Joseph W. Hobson, Recording Secretary ;
Miss Alice Eastwood, curator, Department of Botany; Ed-
ward P. Van Duzee, curator, Department of Entomology,
and assistant librarian; Dr. John Van Denburgh, curator,
Department of Herpetology; Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, honorary
curator, Department of Invertebrate Paleontology; Dr. G.
Dallas Hanna, curator, Department of Invertebrate Paleon-
tology; Dr. Walter K. Fisher, curator, Department of Inverte-
brate Zoology; Joseph Mailliard, curator, Department of
Ornithology and Mammalogy; Joseph R. Slevin, assistant
curator, Department of Herpetology; Chase Littlejohn, as-
sistant curator, Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy ;
Mrs. Marian L. Campbell and Mrs. Kate E. Phelps, assist-
ants, Department of Botany; Mrs. Helen Van Duzee, as-
sistant, Department of Entomology and in the Library; Miss
Mary E. McLellan, Library assistant; William Heim, as-
sistant, Department of Exhibits (on leave) ; John I. Carlson,
general assistant; Raymond Smith, general assistant; Georges
Vorbe, Merle Israelsky, and William Barbat, temporary as-
sistants, Department of Invertebrate Paleontology; William
130 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H Ser.
C. Lewis, janitor; Fred Maag, carpenter and assistant jani-
tor; George W. Edwards, assistant janitor; Frank W. Yale,
night watchman; Mrs. Johanna E. Wilkens, janitress; Patrick
J. O’Brien, day watch; Archie McCarte, night watch.
ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
Accessions to the Museum and the Library have been un-
usually numerous and valuable, as is shown by the detailed
list in the appendix to this report (pp. 149-158).
VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM
In accordance with established policy, the Museum was
open to the public every day in the year. The attendance by
months for each of the years since the Museum was first
opened to the public is shown in the following table:
Month— 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
Wantiany te ccanesciisenencecee nee 23170 25260 17241 27013
Bebruany" soctaestteee eee ae 22058 23698 19586 23450
Marchi fo :o.camca ena sae eee 31606 26810 27397 25419
VADEMMNS 2 b.5¢ me Mest cartesian Soe 32175 23274 25994 32208
Mayids fora caiice Sok C metic ae ee 26154 26391 28369 37107
UNE wa Sraaereces esteint od aseesckeoe st motor 32123 29843 32248 36207
NUly: sc ohaceosecn ce emcee eee 37193 31420 48028 $2492
AUR USES yeu emirns ences 1 See 24619 31137 43730 53470
September 4.0 jcccic0- sess ace 16448* 27866 29847 34007 42413
October Wowes08 ecncesceseee 36933 20629 14743? = 30463 33500
November 5. os tactics sactoncne 27718 21810 8531? 25246 19347
December 5..050..c00 seadannees 15002 21693 19588 21246 21340
otale tna sees eee 96101 321096 290542 351497 403566
A comparison of the number of visitors to the Museum of
the California Academy of Sciences with those who visited
the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum at
Washington in the year ending June 30, 1920, will prove
very interesting. The visitors by months are given in the
following table, which shows that the number visiting the
Smithsonian Institution was only 21 per cent of those visiting
the Academy Museum; the number visiting the Natural His-
tory Building of the National Museum was only 4.7 per cent.
greater than that at the Academy, while that at the Arts and
Industries Building of the National Museum was only 62
per cent of that at the Academy. These figures should be
very gratifying to us.
1 Attendance from September 22 to 30.
2 Museum closed 29 days on account of the ‘‘flu.”’
Vor. XJ EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 131
NuMBER oF VisiTorS BY MONTHS FOR THE YEAR ENDING
June 30, 1920
AT THE
MUSEUM OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
AND
NationaL Museum 1n Wasuincrton, D. C,
United States National Museum
Year California
and Academy Smithsonian Arts and Natural
Month of Sciences Institution Industries History
Building Building
1919
tal yeeeions,2cacstorsie-cte:s 52,492 7,812 24,755 33,631
PAI SUSE yeep syerate esos 53,470 9,594 29,501 45,392
September......... 42,013 9,690 29,697 44,974
October’ .cciecehs : 33,500 7,245 21,401 36,906
November......... 19,347 5,875 18,971 38,420
December................ 21,340 4,992 13,149 23,751
1920
JANUARY 6, sare econ’ = 27,013 4,264 11,491 22,914
February. vce ces: 23,450 3,439 10,168 21,740
Marche oysncricce 25,419 6,371 15,815 32,204
(Apprill? siyertes crease 32,208 8,121 23,207 38,954
Mayes iiss cesses sey 37,107 9,978 27,556 46,089
MUNG scopes ssetat ones 36,207 8,632 25,271 38,009
otal See c.ctate 403,566 86,013 250,982 422,984
COOPERATION WITH SCHOOLS
The Museum continues to cooperate with the public and
private schools. Teachers and school officials are coming
to realize more and more clearly that the Museum can be of
real service to the schools. The number of schools visiting
the Museum increases each year. During the year 1920 there
were schools from San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Ala-
meda, Piedmont and Richmond, and classes from San Jose,
San Rafael, San Anselmo, San Mateo, and Stockton. When-
ever possible, the Director or some one of the Museum staff
accompanies the school through the Museum and explains
briefly the general features of the installations, calling at-
132 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H SER.
tention to the educational value of the various exhibits, and
then, when time permits, the class is taken into the lecture
hall and shown moving pictures or stereopticon slides il-
lustrative of some of the exhibits.
The visits by schools in the year have been as follows:
Schools of San Francisco
Number sot (classesivs <s.e.sqvafe,cvaisrs aratecers ayes crave se7e oateed teach 280
Number of teachers with the classes.................05- 270
Numberiot pupils. sc acc oc.cotsreis eiciere eetetegaie oeielelece iterate tere 19920
Schools outside of San Francisco
Numbersof classes) jatsctosswiniesaiconieentes sien = sere ase 26
Number of teachers with the classes................0005 18
Number:of pupils) ..cAsc sac nc eaves os cieetecciels cee sie caren 444
Totalenumber OF classesisicec sss cnet ese eee eis erent 306
Total mumber of teachers. 15.006 e005, -c1e ce epese cies erat ctoraserc siayerare'e 288
Total miumber Of Pupils. sjejc, cre ersyeperels o1eceverats letatexeya'e oiaheteteretelasoreretere 10364
THE PAN-PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS
Under the auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union, the First
Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress met at Honolulu August 2
to 21. The Director of the Museum attended the Congress,
as a member of the Pacific Explorations Committee of the
National Research Council and representing also the Califor-
nia Academy of Sciences and the Pacific Division of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
sailed from San Francisco July 28 and returned September
8. August 3 to September 1 were spent attending the ses-
sions of the Congress and visiting places of interest on the
islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
The number of delegates and others in attendance upon
the sessions of the Congress was more than 100. There were
present delegates from New Zealand, Australia, the Philip-
pines, China, Japan, Canada, England, and the United States,
many of those from the United States representing various
scientific bureaus of the Government.
The papers and discussions at the sessions of the Congress
covered many phases of the geology, meteorology, and natural
history of the Pacific and its contained islands, and it was
clearly shown that much of importance remains to be learned
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regarding the hydrography, geology, and natural history of
the Pacific.
At the close of the Congress the unanimous verdict was
that the meeting had been a decided success, and that other
meetings should be held every two or three years.
FIELD WORK OF THE MUSEUM STAFF
Within the year the Museum carried on a number of field
investigations, as fully set forth in the reports of the curators.
MEETING OF THE PACIFIC DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
AND ITS AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
The 1920 meeting of the Pacific Division was held at Se-
attle, June 17 to 19. All the sessions of the Association and
of its affiliated societies were held in various halls of the
University of Washington. The Academy membership was
well represented, at least 25 of its members being present.
The Director of the Museum was in attendance as vice-presi-
dent and chairman of the executive committee of the Pacific
Division, and Secretary W. W. Sargeant as secretary of the
Pacific Division. The Academy was represented on the pro-
grams by the following members:
Mr. W. F. Thompson Dr. E. L. Packard
Dr. Barton Warren Evermann Dr. Chester Stock
Prof. John N. Cobb Dr. Wm. E. Ritter
Mr. W. E. Allen Prof. Tracy I. Storer
Mr. Willis H. Rich Dr. E. P. Meinecke
Dr. John C. Merriam Dr. W. F. Durand
Dr. E. P. Lewis Dr. J. R. Slonaker
Dr. J. W. Moore Miss Alice Eastwood
Dr. R. G. Aitken Dr. D. T. MacDougal
Dr. Bruce L. Clark
Several others were in attendance.
USE OF THE ACADEMY’S COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY
BY INVESTIGATORS AND STUDENTS
Students and investigators continue to avail themselves of
the facilities offered by the Academy for study and research.
The Library, with its more than 50,000 books and pamphlets
134 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H Ser.
in the various departments of science, is in almost daily use
by students. This has been especially true of geologists and
paleontologists, who are interested in oil investigations and
prospecting. The large research collections in the different
departments have been consulted by a number of investigators.
Mr. L. M. Loomis continues to avail himself of the Acad-
emy’s collections and Library in his study of sea birds.
Messrs. Joseph Grinnell, Harry S. Swarth, Tracy I. Storer, and
J. Eugene Law, of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, have
had occasion to consult our collections of birds, mammals
and reptiles. Numerous entomologists of the west coast make
frequent use of the rapidly growing collections in that de-
partment, and the botanists of the coast find it to their in-
terest to consult the herbarium.
The Boy Scouts, under Scout Master Harold E. Hanson,
have continued the Friday night meetings at the Museum
throughout the year. The Academy is glad to cooperate in
this way.
PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF
The curators and other members of the Museum staff have
continued active in research work and in their contributions to
the scientific literature of their respective fields of investiga-
tion, as evidenced by the following list of titles of papers
published by them in 1919-1920:
Evermann, Barton Warren
1. Nesting of the Wilson Snipe in California. <The Condor, Vol.
XXI, No. 3, May-June (June 6), 1919, p. 121.
2. Large Set of Eggs of the Canada Goose. <The Condor, Vol. XXI,
No. 3, May-June (June 6), 1919, p. 126.
3. California Trout. <California Fish and Game, Vol. V, No. 3,
July, 1919, pp. 105-135, 4 colored plates, text-figures 36-46. (With
Harold C. Bryant.)
4. The Northern Fur-Seal Problem as a Type of Many Problems of
Marine Zoology. <The Scientific Monthly, Vol. IX, No. 3, Sep-
tember, 1919, pp. 263-282, 4 plates, 6 text-figures.
5. A Colony of Tricolor Blackbirds. <The Gull, Vol. I, No. 9, pp.
2-3, September, 1919.
6. The Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco. <Aquatic Life, August,
1919, pp. 159-160, 1 plate.
7. Note on the Basking Shark. <Copeia, No. 74, October 15, 1919,
pp. 77-78.
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8. A Water-Fowl Habitat Group. <Museum Work, Vol. II, No. 2,
November, 1919, p. 35, 1 plate.
9. Museum Exhibits of Real Value. <Outers’ Recreation, Vol. LXI,
No. 6, December, 1919, p. 435, 1 text-figure.
10. The Northern Fur-Seal Problem as a Type of Many Problems of
Marine Zoology. <Bulletin No. 9 of the Scripps Institution for
Biological Research of the University of California, pp. 13-26, De-
cember 15, 1919. (Differs somewhat from No. 4.)
11. Scientific and Economic Problems of the Mammals and Birds of
the North Pacific. <Bulletin No. 9 of the Scripps Institution for
Biological Research of the University of California, pp. 27-34,
December 15, 1919.
12. Plans for the Steinhart Aquarium. <Pacific Fisherman, Vol.
XVII, No. 12, December, 1919, p. 63, 1 text-figure.
13. A Mountain Sheep Habitat Group. <Forest and Stream, Vol. XC,
No. 1, January, 1920, p. 32, 1 text-figure.
. Birds’ Nests in the Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park. <The
Gull, Vol. II, No. 1, January, 1920, p. 3-4.
15. The Steinhart Aquarium, California. <The American Angler,
Vol. V, No. 1, May, 1920, pp. 19-20, 1 text-figure.
16. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey. The De-
partment of Conservation, State of Indiana, Publication No. 7,
Volume I, pp. 1-660, 9 halftone plates, 38 colored plates, 24 text-
figures, 1 map; Volume II, pp. 1-512, 1920 (September) (with
Howard Walton Clark).
Hanna, G. Dallas
1. The Introduction of Acanthinula harpa and Circinaria vancouver-
ensis on St. Paul Island, Alaska. <The Nautilus, Vol. XX XIII,
No. 4, p. 143, April, 1919.
2. Fossil Mollusks from the John Day Basin in Oregon. <Univer-
sity of Oregon Publications, Vol. I, No. 6, pp. 1-8, pl. I, August,
1920.
3. Report of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology for 1919.
<Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, Ser. 4, Vol.
IX, Nos. 14-15, pp. 387-389, August, 1920.
4. New and Interesting Records of Pribilof Island Birds. <The
Condor, Vol. XXII, No. 5, pp. 173-175, Sept.-Oct. (September 24),
1920.
5. Birds of the Alaska Fur Seal Islands. <The Gull, Vol. II, No, 12,
December, 1920.
6. Census of Alaska Fur Seals in 1919. <Rept. U. S. Commissioner
of Fisheries for 1919(1920). Bureau of Fisheries Document
No. 891.
Mailliard, Joseph
1. Notes from the Feather River Country and Sierra Valley, Califor-
nia. <The Condor, Vol. XXI, p. 74, March 25, 1919.
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12.
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 4TH Ser.
Fly-catching Birds. <The Condor, Vol. XXI, p. 212, September 30,
1919.
Notes on the Avifauna of the Inner Coast Range of California.
<Proc. Calif. Acad, Sci. Fourth Ser., Vol. IX, No. 10, pp. 273-296,
November 25, 1919.
Birds returning to their Old Haunts. <The Condor, Vol. XXII,
p. 38, January 26, 1920.
Effects of a Storm on the Bird Life of the Sea. <The Condor,
Vol. XXII, p. 40, January 26, 1920.
Lincoln Sparrow in San Francisco, California. <The Condor,
Vol. XXII, p. 43, January 26, 1920.
Bryant Marsh Sparrow upon the Hills. <The Condor, Vol. XXII,
p. 63, March 22, 1920 (with John W. Mailliard).
Calaveras Warbler in San Benito County, California. <The Con-
dor, Vol. XXII, p. 155, August 10, 1920.
A Correction concerning the Tawny Creeper. <The Condor, Vol.
XXII, p. 158, August 10, 1920.
Notes on Nutcrackers in Monterey County, California. <The
Condor, Vol. XXII, p. 160, August 10, 1920.
. The Census of Birds’ Nests in the Music Concourse in Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco, California. <The Gull, Vol. III, No. 2,
February 1, 1921.
Notes on some Specimens in the Ornithological Collection of the
California Academy of Sciences. <The Condor, Vol. XXIII, p. 28,
February 5, 1921.
Van Denburgh, John
a
The Garter-Snakes of Western North America. <Proc. Calif.
Acad. Sci., Fourth Ser., Vol. VIII, No. 6, pp. 181-270, pls. 7-17,
October 18, 1918 (with Joseph R. Slevin).
The Gopher-Snakes of Western North America. <Proc. Calif.
Acad. Sci., Fourth Ser., Vol. IX, No. 6, pp. 197-220, pls. 11-13, Au-
gust 21, 1919 (with Joseph R. Slevin).
A Further Study of Variation in the Gopher-Snakes of Western
North America. <Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Fourth Ser., Vol. X,
No. 1, pp. 1-27, pls. 1-2, August 6, 1920.
Description of a New Species of Rattlesnake (Crotalus lucasensis)
from Lower California. <Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. Fourth Ser.,
Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 29-30, pl. 3, August 6, 1920.
Description of a New Subspecies of Boa (Charina botte utahensis)
from Utah. <Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Fourth Ser., Vol. X, No. 3,
pp. 31-32, August 6, 1920.
Description of a New Lizard (Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis)
from Lower California. <Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. Fourth Ser.,
Vol. X, No. 4, pp. 33-34, August 6, 1920.
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Van Duzee, Edward P.
1. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, Vol. III, Insects, F,
Hemiptera, Ottawa, 1919, 5 pages.
2. New Hemipterous Insects of the Genera Aradus, Phytocoris, and
Camtobrochys. <Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Fourth Ser., Vol. IX,
No. 13, pp. 331-356, February 5, 1920.
DEPARTMENT REPORTS
The curators and their assistants have been unusually ac-
tive and efficient during the year in building up and caring for
the collections in their respective departments, as is fully set
forth in their respective reports.
DEPARTMENT OF BoTANY
The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences now numbers
67,789 mounted specimens representing 18,825 species, an increase during
the year of 8,200 specimens and almost 2,000 species. The chief accessions
are as follows:
By purchase.—160 specimens from Rev. John Davis, collected in South
Carolina, and 400 specimens from A. A. Heller, collected in northern
California and southern Oregon.
Through exchange.—290 specimens from Ira W. Clokey, Denver, Colo-
rado, collected in Colorado, and 220 specimens of California mosses
collected by Dr. M, A. Howe; also 300 duplicates from the Cosmo-
politan Mitten Moss Herbarium, from the New York Botanical
Garden.
Sixty-eight different correspondents sent in specimens chiefly for identi-
fication. The following are the most notable:
Mr. Ellsworth Bethel, Denver, Colorado, 281 from Denver and 21 from
California and Nevada; Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens, 150 from Yo-
semite National Park and 401 from Plumas and Amador counties,
California, and southern Oregon; J. August Kusche, 178 from
Hawaiian Islands; Mrs. G. Earle Kelly, 65 from various parts of
California; Mr. Vincent Jones, 72 from various parts of California;
Mrs. Marian L. Campbell, 74 from various parts of California; Mrs.
E. C. Sutliffe, 88 from various parts of California; Howard E.
Phelps, 50 from Pullman, Washington; and Ira C. Otis, 74 from
Cascade Mountains, Washington.
The California State Floral Society gave a collection, chiefly of exotic
ferns, made by the late Mrs. L. A. Hodgkins. It consists of 76 large
mounted sheets and 171 smaller specimens, besides a small collection of
flowering plants collected by the late George W. Dunn.
Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, besides his own collection of 76 specimens from
Unalaska, induced Miss Danforth and Miss Miller, two Unalaska teachers,
to collect for the Academy, and they added 18 specimens. Mr. E. C.
138 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 41H Ser.
Johnston also collected 130 specimens and many duplicates on St. George
Island at Dr. Hanna’s suggestion. Mr. Eric Walther, who has been inde-
fatigable in seeking for the different species cultivated in Golden Gate
Park so as to label them under my supervision, has added about 450 speci-
mens, chiefly exotics, many of them new to the collection.
The curator spent a short time in April along the southern boundary
of the state and collected 285 species and duplicates. During the visit in
June to attend the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science at Seattle, a small collection of
about ninety species was made around Seattle, and on a short trip to
Victoria and Nanaimo, British Columbia, 247 species and duplicates were
collected. Exceptional opportunities for collecting were given by the mem-
bers of the British Columbia Biological Station, who offered both hospi-
tality and guidance. Several small collections were made in Solano,
Marin and San Francisco counties, chiefly in type localities.
Much time has been spent in naming the trees and shrubs in Golden Gate
Park so as to correctly label them. In order to facilitate this work, books
not in the Academy library are greatly needed as the plants in the park
come from all parts of the world. About 600 species have been named
and labels attached to 2000 plants. Some of the genera, such as Acacia,
Eucalyptus, Veronica, Escallonia, and the bamboos have been very diffi-
cult. Duplicate specimens are being collected and prepared to send to the
best authorities for verification of the identifications.
The care of the growing herbarium takes much time, and a great deal
of the detail work falls on the curator. This prevents the accomplishment
of original work which should be done.
The flower show in the vestibule fills a great want in the community.
During the year hundreds of species of exotic and native plants are ex-
hibited labelled with scientific and common name and native home. With-
out the care and attention of Mrs. Johanna E. Wilkens it would be im-
possible to keep this clean and attractive.
The California Botanical Club has about 60 members and holds meetings
once a week either at the Academy or on an excursion to some place near
the city. Its members help the herbarium in many ways, particularly
Mrs. Marian L. Campbell and Mrs. E. C. Sutliffe, who bring in specimens
continually for the herbarium and the flower show. Mrs. Enid Reeves
Michaels, one of the members now residing in the Yosemite Valley, has
been keeping up a flower show in the valley throughout the season, at
her own expense and by her own efforts. Recently, the Club has pur-
chased for the Museum 360 pictures of California wild flowers photo-
graphed and colored with great skill and accuracy by Antone J. Soares.
These will be installed soon so as to be on exhibition in the Museum.
Duplicates distributed —230 to the Agricultural College, Buenos Aires,
in exchange; 360 to the Royal Herbarium, Kew, for exchange; 205 to the
Herbarium of the British Museum, for exchange; 300 to the Arnold
Arboretum, for exchange.
All our Senecios have been sent to Dr. J. M. Greenman at the Missouri
Botanical Garden, who is monographing the genus, and our undetermined
Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 139
Carex have been sent to Kenneth M. Mackenzie, the authority at the New
York Botanical Garden.
Continually throughout the year, the Curator has given informal talks
on botanical subjects to various clubs in San Francisco and other places in
order to educate the public in the love of nature, the knowledge of our
flora and the necessity of protecting our native vegetation from wanton
destruction.
The weekly class of the gardeners of the park is held in the evening at
the herbarium. One of the members, Mr. Lewis Allen, has donated some
fine photographs showing particular species of trees and shrubs in the
park and all the members are most enthusiastic in bringing to the Academy
all the new plants that are coming into flower or fruit. The collection of
exotics raised in California out of doors that is gradually being accumu-
lated in the herbarium of the Academy is one of its most important fea-
tures and destined to make this herbarium the chief place of reference for
the determination of exotics throughout the state.
A.ice Eastwoop, Curator.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
As during the preceding three years the significant work done in the
department of entomology in 1920 was the accumulation and classification
of the insects of the western United States. Some interesting exotic
material has been secured, of special note being a collection of 3570 moths
from the Hawaiian Islands and 1500 beetles from the Amazon Valley. In
our local fauna most advance has been made in the Lepidoptera, Diptera
and Hemiptera. In the Lepidoptera large additions have been made to the
collection of night-flying moths, and, with the exception of the smaller
forms or micro-lepidoptera, most of our species have been determined
and several of the families rearranged. The Geometride, especially, make
an excellent showing with nearly 300 species, mostly from the west coast
states. Determinations in this family have been made for us by Mr. W. S.
Wright of San Diego and Mr. E. H. Blackmore of Victoria, B. C., both
excellent authorities on these delicate and often beautiful “angle-wing”
moths. Mr. E. A. Dodge of Santa Cruz and Mr. S. E. Cassino, of Salem,
Mass., have given us many interesting forms of the genus Catocala, a
group of showy moths with red or yellow underwings, of which the
Academy now has 76 species. In the Diptera, or two-winged flies, much
advance has been made. Mr. F. R. Cole, now at Stanford University, has
been appointed associate curator in this order of insects and has done
much to improve our collection by the determination and arrangement
of our material. In this order the Academy collection now numbers 12,167
specimens, representing 876 named species. At least nine-tenths of this
material has been added during the past four years. During the year the
curator has devoted considerable time to systematic work on the order
Hemiptera, or true bugs, and our collection in this order is now in very
good condition. Of these insects we now have 15,472 specimens, repre-
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senting 744 named species, with portions of two families yet to be worked
up. As one result of his systematic work on the Hemiptera the curator
has prepared descriptions of 50 new species and one new genus which are
awaiting more favorable conditions for publication. Academy material in
the order Orthoptera, which includes the grasshoppers, crickets and their
relatives, has been determined by Mr. Morgan Hebard of Philadelphia,
who also has added many eastern forms to our collection. Unfortunately,
the lack of cabinet boxes precludes the possibility of arranging these
interesting insects this year. Large additions have been made to the col-
lection of Coleoptera, or bettles, but the complete rearrangement of these
insects has awaited the publication of the new Leng Catalogue of Coleop-
tera.
Accessions to the Academy’s collection of insects during the year 1920
number 24,861 specimens to which must be added 3,146 specimens in the
Stretch collection, transferred as a permanent loan or deposit from the
University of California, making a total of 28,007 additions for the year.
Of this number, 9,525 were received as gifts from friends of the Academy,
5,062 were obtained by purchase, 3,146 as a permanent loan and 10,274
were added through field work by the curator. The mounting and labelling
of this mass of material has consumed much of the time of the curator,
although he was fortunate in having the help of Miss Helen Sanford for
four months and of Mr. J. O. Martin for one month. Some of the prin-
cipal gifts to this department received during the year were: from Mr.
W. M. Giffard of Honolulu, 485 aculeate Hymenoptera from the Sierras;
from Mr. Morgan Hebard of Philadelphia, 378 Orthoptera; from Mr. L.
R. Reynolds, 138 Hemiptera from Mexico; from Maj. Chapman Grant of
Oklahoma City, 150 insects; from Mr. E. A. Dodge, 423 moths; from Mr.
C. L. Fox, 991 insects, largely from Siskiyou County, California; from
Dr. E. C. Van Dyke 1717, mostly from the state of Washington; from
Mr. J. E. Law, 450 from Arizona; and from Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, 2441
specimens from the Pribilof Islands, taken by him last summer, and per-
haps the largest collection of insects ever taken on these islands at one
time. Other valuable material has been received from Dr. F. E. Blaisdell,
Mr. J. R. Leach, Dr. J. A. Comstock, Mr. J. O. Martin, Mr. S. E. Cassino,
Mrs. E. P. Van Duzee, Mrs. H. E. Ricksecker, Mr. L. S. Slevin, Mr. J. R.
Slevin, Mr. F. X. Williams, Mr. C. Howard Curran, Dr. R. Ottolengui and
Mr. B. G. Thompson.
The field work of the curator during 1920 consisted of a trip to Half
Moon Bay, April 12 to 13; a trip by automobile to San Diego, April 19 to
28, as guest of Mr. W. M. Giffard; one to Bryson, Monterey County, May
16 to 23; one to Sacramento, June 2 to 3, as guest of Mr. Giffard; a trip
to Seattle and Forks, Washington and Vancouver Island, B. C., June 14
to July 14, and one to Santa Cruz, November 3 to 4, as guest of Mr. E, A.
Dodge. In addition several short Sunday trips to nearby points have been
taken and many evenings have been spent collecting moths at light about
store windows in the city; and, thanks to the kindness of Miss Alice East-
wood, the curator was able to make use of her cottage on the slopes of Mt.
Tamalpais for night collecting of moths during the whole month of March.
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This department has received assistance in the determination of material
from a number of specialists besides those already mentioned and has
rendered assistance to others, principally by the determination of Hemip-
tera. The curator, during the past year, as a part of the work of his
department, has been in more or less regular correspondence with over
125 individuals, mostly workers in the science of entomology.
But one paper by the curator has been published during 1920. This
was issued as Vol. 9, No. 13, of the Proceedings of the Academy and
contains descriptions of 28 new species of North American Hemiptera.
Several later papers await opportunity for publication.
It is expected that the energies and resources of this department for the
coming year largely will be absorbed by the proposed Academy expedition
to Lower California and in the preparation and study of the material taken.
E. P. Van Duzer, Curator.
DEPARTMENT OF HERPETOLOGY
The Department of Herpetology during the year 1920 progressed satis-
factorily, and the work accomplished compares favorably with that of
previous years.
At the beginning of the year 1920 the Academy’s collection of reptiles
and amphibians numbered 40,038 specimens. There have been added dur-
ing the year 1,466 specimens, so that the collection has grown to more
than 41,000 specimens.
The number of specimens added during each of the past six years has
been about as follows:
GUS ieaeapseetceare aval sae vay petal Sear tenet ohare teil everauapane MOaerenA 5 800 specimens
NOG era crcr sttiaere ce toela slotarsterensTapshereiausitalansysiesaneyioratonators ts 1500
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Gifts of specimens during the year have been received as follows:
Bromebatrickw ric Gees asi) sacrerercianelelstetovsiensisiow s 3 specimens
set eG mend ewlarasM Otte orc arevs aie ssislecctelercisse wo acsTotsje70 1 specimen
See NETS JEW ANS over syapars.c arsestabeletetarslersters is 2 specimens
Se Dr, Barton. Wiebvermanms cr wit cie sieretestecctes = 1 specimen
Soe SEAS mE LitolA tani tayasspeyarayevavstersdenateehateleysreteroratonoretatere)s 1 ue
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ED Pe Ga PAU OS sere ere cet cjeietsie/ereresio's)elelescusvayeneres 1 Ss
sol Rapa p lie BONG Ollizielorots eieieylefa wie cuesareveistelolesereforels 1 m
Se Ore Pa Gy Van Dy Kes irercic tocielartelheorteiosiers 13 specimens
GOs Lt bosccodaucoodoandaposcongooCodud 7 :
See Bred Maag iv jccisnr toc croreisisicieiloicic stetoisto cieiars ee 1 specimen
oe Mp Rays lonakerprcyereet cic creileserleieciverrere 2 specimens
<CmeeVohinl Ole Sry. deny .yorsislstatectsise aevoteyerarsteretese\s* 209 s
Le ie CAs len tgonedenosdacneoonedbomcdge 30
268 specimens
142 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 4TH Ser.
Two collecting trips were undertaken to:
1. Carmel, Monterey County, and Campo, San Diego County, California.
2. Arizona.
Specimens have been secured from 12 counties of California, as follows:
Contra’ Costa 228 cies a-nccisas cian se carotene ince 1 specimen
ING wares eae aiatsia ce oem nas rirenie meee ee ae 1 ss
MoseAripelesvanc carve on cocten ee otk ee 1 S
Mad erat src snars/asayars dl ane slow ietereera ice eee eine 2 specimens
DaneBenito censor ce cninctaoee cacalete cement 1 specimen
DAN D1eRO> Walones sos eee ee pores ee eee ee 7 specimens
Sau HTANCISCO! eres crated alee een cle ere teiaere aes 1 specimen
San YW Oaguin Pe cdeercsetancasecemiee pate eee 1 :
Sant Lis Obispo rdsu cae tee ance se cee acetone nee 1 pe
Sani Mateo; 228 st sk.ciec pay sscset tee ose rere oe 5 specimens
Sanita, Clakacmaseneme ences ake eee ei eae 1 specimen
SOnOMa 22k etaneishetocmaaiteeese eae cca steer 1 Hi
PAT IZONG versa ttn ioc. caciedan date tele eee eee 890 specimens
ConnecttGut is caes cecnsnwenact Seek onc ne serene 2 .
MAANG:S fy. cv.c.ois veiareva sets 2s arcuacrehae oitoleteatte seer ae 18 e
Utah) ie cioins tetsa celsis sisson ase tna menseiie ceen ete 217 ¢
Wiash moton 4s ccevste,ciasrariey enc .ars cotaorereic ate eee eee te 9 3
SWASCONSIN. © aivicas o screeners: cca setae capscineemie na ees 2 “
Australia).\s00sit aa vieannanecag@ee estas cae eene 28 .
Celebes; DOR Tk, Faas. scone nae ee eee 1 specimen
Hawatian dslandsic. i ccncuweosceaseceteeensaceeee 205 specimens
Eaysany island. aeccesscasiccacccer: coe nee 5 ws
Lower Californias ...ccuccna sic rear esiiecie es ose cee 1 specimen
New Zealand's sitacs ccacaros osu aurvecine oeraicmete 18 specimens
Philippine wslands..c..15c. vse ceetenesessaaecmeine 1 specimen
Vancouver Island, British Columbia ............. 6 specimens
The classification and arrangement of the collection was continued dur-
ing part of the year.
Considerable research work has been accomplished during the year and
a further study of the gopher-snakes west of the Rocky Mountains has been
published.
The snakes of the genus Lampropeltis were borrowed for study by Dr.
Blanchard, and the lizards of the genus Gerrhonotus were studied by Mr.
Ivan Johnston. Other students also made use of the collection.
During the year the Assistant Curator, Mr. J. R. Slevin, carried on ex-
plorations in California and Arizona, where he spent the months of May,
June, July, August, and part of September, and secured large collections.
JoHn Van DENBuURGH, Curator.
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DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
The regular work of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology is
considerably varied in character because of the assembling therein of all
the collections of fossil animals and plants, as well as those of the shells
of living mollusks, and corals and the minerals, which belong to the Acad-
emy. While each group must necessarily receive a certain amount of care
in order to make the collections readily accessible for study, the greatest
attention of the personnel of the Department has been given to the living
and fossil mollusks, particularly the latter. The vast Tertiary deposits of.
these organisms in California have attracted the attention of members
of the Academy’s staff since the organization of the institution. Although
the valuable collections obtained prior to 1906 were destroyed in the fire,
the activities of my predecessors and friends of the Academy have resulted
in the building up of one of the largest West Coast series in existence.
In the careful selection of the specimens and their orderly arrangement
the collection is second to none.
The study of the fossil shells necessitates having related living forms
for comparison, and generous friends have presented material from time
to time, so that a very large and valuable working series of recent shells
has been obtained. So far as West Coast material is concerned, the
Academy’s collection probably ranks third in importance at the present
time.
Some specimens of fossil vertebrate animals are also contained in the
collections, but throughout its history the Academy has preferred to leave
this branch of the work to other institutions. This likewise has been true
with regards to the fossil plants and the minerals.
Such varied and extensive collections require attention along the follow-
ing lines: (1) The collection of additional material in the most important
groups (field work) ; (2) The proper accessioning, cataloging, and classify-
ing of the specimens; (3) The preparation and publishing of reports upon
the collections for the use of the members of the Academy and others
interested in this branch of science.
Three important field trips were made by the curator during the period
covered by this report. Ten days in April were spent in San Benito
County, California, in company with Mr. Joseph Mailliard, Curator of the
Department of Ornithology. The collections of land and freshwater mol-
lusks secured filled important gaps in our series. Search for fossils in
the region proved unsuccessful.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries requested the services of the
curator during the summer of 1920 to take the census of Alaska fur seals
on the Pribilof Islands, a task to which he had been detailed annually since
1913, After careful consideration of the benefits which the Academy would
derive from such a trip, it was decided best to accede to the wishes of the
Bureau. The curator, therefore, took his departure on May 27, and,
after an absence of about four months, returned on October 1. About
one month of this time was occupied with actual fur-seal work, and the
remaining available time was devoted to making collections in the branches
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in which the Academy personnel is most interested. Besides the work
done on the Pribilof Islands, specimens were obtained at Seattle, Un-
alaska, and Woody Island, near Kodiak, Alaska. Land and freshwater
shells were secured at these places, and dredging was done whenever
weather conditions would permit. The Department of Invertebrate
Paleontology thus secured 3,000 specimens. In addition to these collections
the attempted boring of an artesian well on St. Paul Island by the Navy
Department furnished an opportunity to secure a continuous series of
cuttings down to 100 feet below sea level. A very large collection of fossil
diatoms thus resulted, the full importance and extent of which can not
be estimated at this time.
The collections of birds, birds’ eggs, insects and plants secured on this
trip have been dealt with by the curators of the respective departments.
During the latter part of 1920 the Bureau of Fisheries made a further
request for the presence of the curator at a conference on fur-seal matters,
called for January 10, 1921, in Washington, D. C. That this request might
be complied with, two weeks annual leave was granted. Entire approval
was expressed with regard to the methods of census computation developed
by the writer.
On the return from Washington a brief stop was made at Austin, Texas,
where a large collection of recent land and freshwater shells, and marine
Cretaceous fossils was secured. At the close of the year these specimens
had not been assorted or classified.
The trip to Washington and return on Government transportation
furnished an opportunity, which could not be overlooked, to visit an im-
portant, but little-known, Tertiary horizon in southern California at little
expense to the Academy. This is in the general region of Carriso Creek,
Imperial and San Diego counties. Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, the former
curator, had borrowed the material from this locality which had been
collected by the U. S. Geological Survey and the University of California,
but had been unable to complete the study he contemplated. Upon looking
into the matter with a view to returning the borrowed collections to their
owners, their importance from a geological standpoint was very evident.
Professor Bruce L. Clark, of the University of California, urged that the
relations of the fossil fauna be determined, if possible. The best preserved
specimens of the various species were accordingly taken to Washington,
where direct comparisons could be made with closely related species from
the West Indies and other places.
It then appeared more evident than ever that this deposit of shells and
other fossils promised to reveal many unknown facts regarding the former
connection of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, A larger collection and
better material were imperative; and at the time this report is being writ-
ten, field work is in progress, and it is hoped that before it goes to press
it will be possible to state briefly the success of the undertaking.
Besides the collections made by the curator, some others should be
mentioned. Dr. Roy E. Dickerson brought to the Academy in 1920 an
extensive series of marine shells from the Philippine Islands. Altogether
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there are 1,470 specimens. Mr. Joseph R. Slevin brought some rare land
shells from Arizona, where exploration was conducted in the interests
of the Department of Herpetology. Dr. Barton Warren Evermann col-
lected some beautiful specimens of lavas while he was in the Hawaiian
Islands attending the meeting of the Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference.
Several other minor collections were donated to the Academy, all of
which are mentioned in the list of accessions following.
The proper cataloging and classification of a collection is almost as valu-
able work as the assembling of it, hence a great deal of attention has been
devoted to this work. The card system is being used to list the various
species, numbers of specimens, localities, etc., and an important beginning
has been made upon a real inventory of the scientific material in the
Department. Once this is completed there will be little difficulty in keeping
it up to date; and, then in a short time, it will be possible to state how many
species and specimens we have. At the present time this can not be
done, although it would be very desirable.
The absence of the curator in Alaska for so long, prevented the writ-
ing of many papers on the collections. However, the work upon the
Miocene freshwater shells from the ancient Petaluma Lake was com-
pleted. Also two reports upon fossil land shells of an Oregon deposit
were written. Altogether the curator published six articles during the
year.
Considerable progress was made in the indexing of references to west
American land and freshwater mollusks. From the vast intricacies of
the literature which thus become orderly assembled, it is hoped that a
valid list of species may be extricated. One of the things already dis-
closed is the remarkable fact that no less than 125 specific and subspecific
names have been applied in the common California land-snail genus, known
as Epiphragmophora.
Our collection has continued to be actively used by other institutions,
and it is hoped that in the future it will continue to prove equally at-
tractive. Specimens which have been studied by specialists are believed
to be of far greater value to a museum than those which repose in-
definitely unidentified and untouched in their cases.
Under the able leadership of Professor Clark, the students of his
classes in paleontology have found material collected by the Academy per-
sonnel many years ago, of great value in their work upon particular hori-
zons. This is especially true of Mr. Howe, who is engaged upon faunas
from Oregon and Washington. It is understood, informally, that the
monograph of the western species of the genus Turritella by Miss Richard-
son has been completed, and that the material borrowed from the Academy
will be returned as soon as the necessary photographs have been taken.
Miss Mary J. Rathbun, Associate in Zoology of the U. S. National
Museum, has borrowed the Academy’s collection of fossil crabs. She is
the foremost authority on these crustaceans, and it is fortunate that our
material may be identified by such an able and well-known student.
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the U. S. Geological Survey, visited the
Academy in the summer of 1920, and requested the loan of some of our
146 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 47H Ser.
Tertiary fossils to be used in connection with his studies of coastal plains
geology. Others who have borrowed certain specified groups in past
years, but who have not completed their studies at this date, are: Dr.
Earl L. Packard, University of Oregon, Cretaceous fossils; Dr. S. S.
Berry, Redlands, California, Chitons; and Dr. W. S. W. Kew, fossil sea
urchins.
Faithful and very valuable assistance has been rendered in the Depart-
ment by Messrs. Merle Israelsky and Georges Vorbe, students of the
University of California, and by Mr. William Barbat of St. Mary’s College.
G. Dattas Hanna, Curator.
DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
The collections haye been increased by specimens collected by the
Curator and Mr. W. S. Wallace of Monterey Bay. Mr. Wallace has
specialized on hydroids and is naming the material as rapidly as acquired.
A trip to Vancouver Island which the Curator had intended to make in
October had to be postponed until April on account of unfavorable tides
and the closing of the Nanaimo Biological Station, which was to be used
as a base of operations. The primary object of the trip was to study in
life the shore and shallow-water sea stars, of which a considerable num-
ber of nominal forms have been described from that general region.
Dr. G. Dallas Hanna made a collection of sea stars, with extensive color
notes, at St. Paul Island, Bering Sea, and at Unalaska, during the summer.
Dr. Gertrude Van Wagenen, who is studying at the Hopkins Marine
Station, the corals and actinians of Monterey Bay, will contribute a set of
named specimens. W. K. FisHEr, Curator.
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT
The growth of the library during the year 1920 was greater than during
the preceding year, accessions having increased by purchase, by exchange
and by gift. The low rate of foreign exchange made it seem advisable to
place larger orders with European dealers and by this means many valu-
able sets were received at a very reasonable figure. Recovery from the
European War has made possible the resumption of exchanges with many
foreign societies, and lastly, more than the usual number of gifts have
been received from friends of the Academy. Accessions to the library
for the year number 1370 bound volumes, of which 526 were received by
gift, 544 by purchase and 300 through exchange with other institutions.
In addition to the bound volumes a large number of pamphlets and parts
of volumes were received. By far the larger part of the books and pam-
phlets presented to the Academy library were from the Adolph Sutro
library, received through the generosity of Doctors Geo. W. and Emma
Sutro Merritt. This material from the Sutro library includes 402 bound
volumes and 4248 miscellaneous numbers of government bulletins and
reports and similar unbound material, besides a large number of separate
papers, many of which will be useful later in completing sets. During
the year 2200 volumes were accessioned, making the total number of
volumes accessioned on December 31, 1920, 14,080.
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Two new metal book stacks were erected in the basement library room,
furnishing shelving space for 2400 volumes. This additional shelving
has made it possible to relieve and rearrange some overcrowded subjects,
thus adding materially to the orderly arrangement of the books stored in
the basement room.
Work in the library department has, as in the two previous years, been
in the hands of Miss McClellan and Mrs. Van Duzee, and to the faithful
and efficient performance of the duties devolving upon these two is due
the progress made in this department of the Academy’s activities.
The collating, classification and cataloging has been completed in the
series of publications of scientific societies and institutions issued in for-
eign languages, and in the subjects of engineering, chemistry, geography,
mathematics, medicine, mining, ethnology and archeology and work on
several other subjects is nearing completion. All current accessions also
have been cataloged and placed on the shelves promptly as received. Use
of the library by the Academy membership has shown a gratifying in-
crease and it is hoped that with the improvement of the catalogue and
the more systematic arrangement of the books on the shelves will come
an increasing and more effective use of the books we have, both by the
museum staff and the Academy membership in general.
E. P. Van Duzet, Assisiant Librarian.
DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY
As heretofore, this department has been coordinated with that of Or-
nithology, and what field work was accomplished was done incidentally
with that in the latter department.
A succession of dry seasons in northern California made the collecting
of small rodents a difficult matter on account of their scarcity, but a con-
siderable number was obtained.
The Academy’s collection of mammals had never been completely
checked up, labelled, or entered upon the accession register, but this work
is now nearly finished. Many of the large skins were only salted or dried,
but the necessity for the better preservation of these very valuable speci-
mens became so evident that Mr. H. W. Vogelsang was employed to tan
them. The larger proportion of these have been so treated with most
satisfactory results.
These skins have heretofore been stored in the ordinary metal cases in
use for the smaller mammals, and therefore not readily accessible. It
was decided to build a hide room in which to hang them when tanned.
For this purpose a space has been enclosed in the vacant store room at
the northwest corner of the Mammal Hall, in which all hides will be
easily accessible for examination.
Gifts to the department have been made by Messrs. F. S. Townsley,
J. R. Slevin, Chas. Budd, Geo. A. Bailey, W. C. Hackmeier, Dr. Saxton
Pope, the Golden Gate Park authorities, and others, as shown in the List
of Accessions.
JosepH Mattirarp, Curator.
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DEPARTMENT OF ORNITHOLOGY
Active work in this department has been carried on throughout the
year. While most of this work has consisted in the classification, regis-
tration, and arrangement of specimens, several field trips were undertaken
and some valuable contributions made to the knowledge of the distribu-
tion and migration of our birds. Two weeks in the early spring were
spent in Monterey County, California, for the purpose of observing the
unusual influx of Clarke’s Nutcrackers reported from there, and for
studying the juncos of that part of the state, and some valuable records
were obtained. Another field trip was made in company with Dr. G.
Dallas Hanna, of the Department of Paleontology, to whose valuable
assistance this department is greatly indebted, into the region near “The
Pinnacles,” San Benito County, California, and to Pacheco and Panoche
passes in order to note migrations. Interesting data were secured on this
trip in connection with the spring migration of certain species and many
specimens of birds and eggs were brought back.
The principal field trip of the year was to Siskiyou County, California,
made in company with Mr. F. G. Gilchrist and Mr. Frank C. Holman, as
assistants. Five weeks were passed in the field, the greater portion in
camp at various spots. Although the very dry season had an unfortunate
influence upon the bird life of the localities visited, the expedition gath-
ered a number of specimens from a but little investigated part of the
state, better defined the known habitats of several species of birds, and
obtained some good records. The regions visited were localities west
and north of the base of Mt. Shasta; Forest House Mountain, west of
Yreka; and the Salmon Mountains, west of Greenview. Thanks are
especially due to Mr. F. C. Holman, in the capacity of volunteer assistant,
for his efforts to make the expedition a success.
Another field trip was made, in company with Mr. Chase Littlejohn,
present assistant in this department, to the Mt. St. Helena range in Lake
County, California, further to study the fall migration of fox sparrows.
Fifteen days were spent in this work, and some very interesting observa-
tions were made, and numerous specimens secured.
The Curatorial work of the department has been principally that of
cataloging and arranging specimens and bringing the card index up to
date. The large increase in the number of specimens has necessitated the
addition of fifteen metal cases for their installation, but, unless the near
future brings unexpected fortune in the way of large donations, there
should now be case room for the coming year, especially as a few cases
will be freed from the mammalogical room.
The illness of Mr. Wm. Heim, who was mounting birds for the sea-
sonal groups of the birds of Golden Gate Park, has delayed that work
so that it is not yet systematically arranged, but a number of the birds
of the park are in the cases, properly labelled, so that the public may
profit thereby. Mr. Littlejohn has more specimens under way, and it is
hoped to have these groups in fairly good shape within the next few
weeks.
The principal donation to the department during the past year has been
that of the W. Otto Emerson collection of study skins, consisting of some
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5300 specimens, the life work of Mr. Emerson. This collection was pur-
chased and donated to the Academy by Messrs. W. H. Crocker and John
W. Mailliard. In this collection are many rare records for California,
and, with the Mailliard collection, the Academy’s representation of
the land birds of this state is now placed on a good working basis for
the use of all who may be interested in the study of ornithology.
Accessions to the Department of Ornithology proper are as follows:
Gifts :
W. H. Crocker and J. W. Mailliard (Emerson col-
LECLIOND); Sziereietile.tetalayalae Salta vsiaeye/sreelerecsiersveraiSile 5300 specimens
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While this department was somewhat short-handed during the year, a
great deal of work has been accomplished in the matter of rearranging
the collection of birds for the reception of the large additions; and the
installment of the odlogical collection is proceeding with reasonable speed.
JosepH MAILLIARD, Curator.
APPENDIX TO DIRECTOR’S REPORT
ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND Lrprary, 1920
Geological Survey of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia: Nine maps.
Gift.
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Allen, Mr. Lewis, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: Twenty-three photo-
graphs of trees and shrubs and eight plants from Fresno. Gift.
Ashbly, Mrs. A. H., Stockton: One botanical specimen from Morada. Gift.
Augsbury, Mrs. John C., San Francisco: Seven botanical specimens from
Bartlett Springs. Gift.
Bailey, Mr. George A., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: One black
gopher. Gift.
Barbat, Mr. William F., San Francisco: Fossil shell conglomerate from
Chase Camp, Mill Creek, Tehama County, probably Monterey Mio-
cene in age. Gift.
Bassinger, Mr. A. J., Agricultural College, Davis: Nine plants from Cali-
fornia. Gift.
Beck, Mr. Donovan Wayne, Burlington, Indiana: A collection of 15 bird
eggs from Burlington, Indiana. Gift.
Becker, Mr. J. O., Keeper, Afto Nuevo Light, California: Two whale
bones from Afio Nuevo Island and three Indian spearheads from shore
opposite Afio Nuevo Island, San Mateo County. Gift.
Bergman, Mr. Charles, San Francisco: Two botanical specimens from
Ingleside for identification and one aquarium plant. Gift.
Berry, Dr. S. Stillman, Redlands: Three paratypes of three new sub-
species of land mollusks described recently in the Proceedings of the
California Academy of Sciences, five land shells from southern Cali-
fornia, and three land mollusks from Canada. Gift.
Bethel, Mr. Ellsworth, Denver, Colorado: Fifteen specimens of Ribes
from southern California, four botanical specimens from Nevada,
19 from California and 281 from Colorado. Gift.
Blaisdell, Dr. F. E., San Francisco: Seventy beetles from various localities
and three books (The International Scientist’s Directory, Check List
of North American Birds—E. Coues, and Pacific Railroad Report,
Vol. IX). Gift.
Blazic, Mr. Antone, Los Angeles: Twelve botanical specimens from Chico
and Santa Barbara. Gift.
Borden, Mr. Ralph, Alameda: Seven Australian parrots in flesh. Gift.
Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Massachusetts: Memoirs,
three volumes; Occasional Papers, six volumes; Proceedings, 19 vol-
umes. Gift.
Brimley, Mr. C. S., Raleigh, North Carolina: Fifty-one salamanders, 10
frogs, eight snakes, and two lizards. Purchase.
Brooks, Mr. Ben., Chicago, Illinois: Nine botanical specimens from Gary,
Indiana. Gift.
Bud, Mr. Charles, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: One porcupine. Gift.
Button, Mr. Fred L., Oakland: Four publications. Gift.
Cain, Mr. B. C., Salt Lake City, Utah: Twenty-one snakes, 157 lizards,
23 frogs, and 16 toads from Utah; two frogs, one toad, five salaman-
ders and ten snakes from Idaho. Purchase.
California Botanical Club, San Francisco: One book. Gift.
California State Floral Society, San Francisco: Sixty-two large sheets of
mounted ferns, chiefly exotics and named, also 14 unnamed, 171
smaller specimens unmounted of both exotics and native ferns, and
me
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also 30 specimens of flowering plants collected by the late George W.
Dunn. Gift.
Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: One
book (Florula Bostoniensis—Joseph Bigelow). Gift.
Campbell, Mrs. Marian L., Mill Valley: Eight botanical specimens from
Mill Valley and Los Altos, 40 from Lake Tahoe region and Sacra-
mento, 18 from Solano County, and eight from Monte Rio. Gift.
Cappleman, Mrs. O. C, Mill Valley: One botanical specimen from
Washington. Gift.
Cassino, Mr. S. E., Salem, Massachusetts: The Lepidopterist, Vols. II and
III, Nos. 1-5. Gift.
Chilton, Dr. Charles, Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand:
Thirty-three specimens of land and freshwater shells from the Ha-
waiian Islands. Gift.
Clemens, Mrs. Joseph, Pacific Grove: One hundred and fifty specimens of
plants from Yosemite National Park, 21 from Plumas, Shasta and
Tehama counties, and 27 from other Pacific Coast localities. Gift.
Clokey, Mr. Ira W., Denver, Colorado: Two hundred and ninety speci-
mens of Colorado plants. Exchange.
Cole, Miss Marjorie, Los Angeles: One botanical specimen. Gift.
Coleman, Mr. R. A., San Francisco: Thirty specimens of marine mollusks
from California, including a beautiful series of Brachydontes de-
missus, a mussel introduced from the East coast of the United States
with the Oyster and now well established on the eastern side of San
Francisco Bay. Gift.
Crocker, Mr. Wm. H., and Mailliard, Mr. John W., San Francisco: The
W. Otto Emerson collection of 5300 bird skins. Gift.
Crocker, Mrs. William H., Burlingame: One bulla from Umma (Toklia)
in South Babylonia. Gift.
Crook, Dr. A. R., State Museum of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois: One
book (Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum.—
Crook). Gift.
Crowell, Mr. A. Russell, Mexico: Nineteen recent shells from Mazatlan
Bay. Gift.
Curran, Mr. C. Howard, Vineland Station, Ontario: Twenty specimens
of Syrphide, including the types of 17 of his recently described spe-
cies. Gift.
Danford and Miller, Misses, Unalaska: Eighteen botanical specimens from
Unalaska. Gift.
Danmar, Mr. William, 5 McAuley Ave., Jamaica, New York: One book
(Modern Nervanaism.—William Danmar). Gift.
David, Mr. Evan J.: One book (Leonard Wood on National Issues—Evan
J. David). Gift.
Davis, Rev. John, Hannibal, Missouri: One hundred and sixty botanical
specimens from South Carolina. Purchase.
Day, Mr. Charles E., Parker, Arizona: Two specimens of copper ore and
two of cactus from Parker, Arizona. Gift.
Dean, Mr. W. E., San Francisco: Sundry Academy publications. Gift.
152 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 4TH Ser.
de la Motte, Mr. G. W., San Francisco: One Gila monster from near
Roosevelt Dam, Arizona. Gift.
Dickerson, Dr. Roy E., Manila, P. I.: Fifty-eight specimens of fossils and
16 freshwater shells from the Philippine Islands. Gift.
Dodge, Mr. E. A., Santa Cruz: One hundred specimens of lepidopterous
insects, all mounted and determined. Gift.
Donohoe, Mrs. J. A., Menlo Park: Three botanical specimens from Menlo
Park. Gift:
Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York: One book (The
Life of Leonard Wood—John G. Holme). Gift.
Eastwood, Miss Alice, California Academy of Sciences: One hundred and
thirty-one botanical specimens from state of Washington; 280 speci-
mens from British Columbia; 67 from northern California; 239 from
southern California; and 56 miscellaneous specimens. Exploration.
Edwards, Mr. George W., San Francisco: Eight volumes (Battles and
Leaders of the Civil War, Vols. 1-8). Gift.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon: Six fossil land shells from Ore-
gon. Gift.
Evermann, Dr. Barton Warren, California Academy of Sciences: One
specimen Chert from Afio Nuevo Island; a series of lavas from
Kilauea Volcano; 39 land shells from lava rocks not far from
Kukuku, Hawaii; 101 marine shells and coral from Honaunau, Ha-
waii; 18 specimens marine mollusks from Afio Nuevo Island; and a
collection of 15 eggs and nests of California birds. Exploration.
Seven trays of buttons showing the various processes in the manu-
facture of these articles from freshwater mussels; 14 shells of fresh-
water mussels from which buttons are made; 1 tray of waste from
button factory after being ground for poultry food; eight natural
pearls from freshwater mussels; Koninklijk Magnetisch en Meteoro-
logisch Observatorium te Batavia, Verhandelingen, No. 5; 67 publica-
tions of the Academy; one botanical specimen from San Francisco,
one from Hawaii, and one from Alaska collected in July, 1892. Gift.
Faix, Mr. C. A., San Francisco: Two botanical specimens from San
Francisco. Gift.
Falkenau, Prof. Louis, Alameda: Sundry Academy publications. Gift.
Flett, Prof. J. B.: One snake and one salamander from Washington State.
Gift.
Fox, Miss Anna P.: Seventeen botanical specimens from Inyo County.
Gift.
Fox, Mr. C. L., San Francisco: One hundred and four insects taken at
Mount Rainier in July, 1919, and 887 insects from Siskiyou County.
Gift.
Friends of Irish Freedom, Washington, D. C.: One book. Gift.
Gauthier-Villars et Cie. 55 Quai des Grands-Augustins, Paris, France:
Eight books and pamphlets. Gift.
Giffard, Mr. W. M., Honolulu, T. H.: Four hundred and eighty-five Acu-
leate Hymenoptera from the Sierras. Gift.
Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 153
Ghirardelli, Mrs. Domingo, San Francisco: Seed pods of various trees
from Panama and two botanical specimens form Portland, Oregon.
Gift.
Gilbert, Mr. Arch M., Mill Valley: One botanical specimen from Sebasto-
pol. Gift.
Goodman, Dr. E., San Francisco: Three botanical specimens from San
Francisco; 10 from Redwood Cafion and Piedmont and two from
Mount St. Helena; two pieces of wood from the Petrified Forest and
nine postal cards showing views of the Petrified Forest; and two
other botanical specimens. Gift.
Grant, Miss Adele L., Missouri Botanical Garden: Ten botanical speci-
mens from Fresno. Gift.
Grant, Major Chapman, Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, T. H.: One hun-
dred and fifty insects from Oklahoma City. Gift.
Grundel, Mr. J. G., Oakdale: One albino western robin in the flesh. Gift.
Hackmeier, Mr. W. C., San Francisco: Two wild cats from Lassen County.
Gift.
Hahn, Mrs., San Francisco: One botanical specimen from Kings County.
Gift.
Hall, Dr. H. M., Berkeley: Twenty-seven unmounted and six mounted
botanical specimens. Gift.
Hallawell Seed Co., San Francisco: One botanical specimen from Dixon.
Gift.
Hanna, Dr. G. Dallas, California Academy of Sciences: Thirty-one marine
mollusks from Moss Beach, California; 60 freshwater clams from
Alaska; 15 freshwater clams from Washington; 3035 marine mollusks
from Alaska and Bering Sea; 59 land and freshwater shells from
the Bay Region of California and 2558 land and freshwater mol-
lusks from San Benito County; 65 specimens of mollusks from
Laguna Salada; 2441 insects from Pribilof Islands; 30 botanical
specimens from Unalaska and 46 specimens from St. Paul Island;
130 plants collected by E. C. Johnston, from St. George Island,
Alaska; one snake and one salamander from Contra Costa County;
one snake from San Benito County; 10 skulls of Blue Foxes,
three skulls of Steller’s Sea Lion, 27 skulls of Fur Seals, two
skulls and one skin of Hair Seal, and one skull of Reindeer, from
St. Paul Island; two skulls of Polar Bears and one humerus of Polar
Bear, from St. Matthew Island, Alaska; one skull of Kodiak Bear
from Kodiak, and a few bones of Hair Seals from Alaska; 110 bird
skins, 16 specimens of birds in formalin and 374 eggs from Alaska.
Exploration. Sundry books and pamphlets. Gift.
Hawver, Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons, Bolinas: Eight botanical specimens from
Mount Hood region. Gift.
Heath, Dr. Harold, Stanford University: One set (6 perfect eggs) of the
Alaska Wren from St. George Island, Alaska. Gift.
Heller, Mr. A. A., Chico: Four hundred botanical specimens from north-
ern California and southern Oregon. Purchase.
Herrin, Mr. William F., San Francisco: Seventeen botanical specimens
from Shasta County and three specimens from Napa County. Gift.
154 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
Hicken, Dr. Cristobal M., Buenos Aires, Argentina: Twenty miscellaneous
separates by C. M. Hicken and one copy Apuntes Historia Natural,
Vol. Il. Gift.
Hickman, Mr. J. B., Aromas: Two botanical specimens. Gift.
Hildebrand, Mr. Samuel F., Key West, Florida: Nine snakes, four lizards,
five frogs, one toad, and two turtles. Gift.
Holladay, Mrs. E. B., San Francisco: Sundry papers and documents re-
lating to the early history of the Academy; 13 books and pamphlets;
a number of the early publications of the Academy. Gift.
Holman, Mr. F. C.,, San Francisco: Eight bird skins. Gift.
Howell, Mr. A. B., Pasadena: Eighteen mollusks from northwestern Cali-
fornia. Gift.
Hubbard, Mr. J. D., Chico: One Red-tailed Hawk in flesh. Gift.
Israelsky, Mr. Merle C, San Francisco: Six oligocene fossils from San
Lorenzo and 18 miocene fossils from vicinity of Walnut Creek. Gift.
Jackson, Mrs. Bell R., San Rafael: Ten botanical specimens from Marin
County. Gift.
Jones, Mr. Vincent, San Francisco: Forty botanical specimens from Cedar
Glen, Sierra County, and 32 from Vallejo, Suisun and Orwood. Gift.
Jordan, Dr. David Starr, Stanford University: Thirty specimens of fossil
fishes from the Diatomaceous deposits at Lompoc, and one from the
Derby Dam, Truckee River, Nevada. Gift.
Kelly, Mrs. G. Earle, Alameda: Forty-seven botanical specimens from
Butte County; 17 from Plumas County, three from Monterey, and one
from Alvarado. Gift.
Kusche, Mr. J. August, San Francisco: One hundred and seventy-eight
specimens of Hawaiian plants; 150 insects from Hawaiian Islands,
mostly moths, and 67 moths taken at Burlingame. Gift.
Law, Mr. J. Eugene, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley: Four
hundred and fifty insects from southern California and Arizona. Gift.
Leavy, Mr. Aiken, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: Five botanical speci-
mens from Niles Nursery. Gift.
Lehrkind, Mr. O. F., San Francisco: Indian relics from Salt Lake District.
Gift.
Le Masters, Mr. C., Bisbee, Arizona: One specimen bog-iron covered by
malachite stains, and mineralogical specimens 75 per cent. copper from
Sacramento Hill, Bisbee, Arizona. Gift.
Lewis, Mr. William C., Sausalito: One Great Blue Heron. Gift.
Maag, Mr. Fred, San Francisco: One lizard from Kern County. Gift.
Mailliard, Mr. John W. and Crocker, Mr. William H., San Francisco:
The W. Otto Emerson collection of 5300 bird skins. Gift.
Mailliard, Mr. John W., San Francisco: Twenty-two miscellaneous pam-
phlets. Gift.
Mailliard, Mr. Joseph; Gilchrist, Mr. Francis; and Holman, Mr. F. C,
California Academy of Sciences; Eighty-seven skins of small mam-
mals, and 598 study skins of birds from California. Exploration:
Mailliard, Mr. Joseph, California Academy of Sciences: Six hundred and
ninety-nine freshwater shells from Sonoma and Siskiyou counties.
Exploration.
Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 155
Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings, Vol. XXXII, pp. 207-
234, 239-270, two pamphlets. Gift.
Martin, Mr. J. O., Berkeley: Five hundred and eleven beetles. Gift.
Masters, Mrs. Cornelia S., Pasadena: One botanical specimen from Yel-
lowstone Park. Gift.
McAllister, Mr. M. Hall, San Francisco: Framed photograph of charter
members of the Cordelia Shooting Club, organized July, 1880. Gift.
McLaren, Mr. John, Park Lodge, San Francisco: Five botanical speci-
mens from Humboldt County; one deer and one bear in flesh. Gift.
McLellan, Miss Mary E., Berkeley: Three hundred and seventeen marine
mollusks from Monterey Bay, and 13 miscellaneous volumes. Gift.
Meiere, Mrs. Ernest, Los Altos: Three botanical specimens from Los
Altos, and four Japanese prints of flowers. Gift.
Meierdierks, Miss Marie, Alameda: Forty specimens of Swiss Alpine
plants. Gift.
Department of Mines, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Two maps. Gift.
Menzies, Mr. Robert, San Rafael: Four botanical specimens from San
Rafael. Gift.
Michaels, Mrs. Charles E., Yosemite: Five botanical specimens from Yo-
semite, and one from Mount St. Helena. Gift.
Miller, Mrs. C. E., Berkeley: Four botanical specimens from Santa Cruz
and Catalina islands. Gift.
Miller, Mr. Irving, San Francisco: Nineteen botanical specimens from
Pilot Knob, Inyo County. Gift.
Mouzin, Mr. Nicholas, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: Four botanical
specimens from Tuolumne Meadows and Golden Gate Park. Gift.
Moxley, Mr. George L., Los Angeles: One botanical specimen from the
Sierra Nevada. Gift.
Newell, Mrs. Gwendolyn, San Francisco: Sundry Academy publications.
Giit.
New Church Press, New York: Three books. Gift.
New York Botanical Garden, New York: Three hundred and ninety-five
specimens of mosses, duplicates of the Mitten collection from various
places; and 220 specimens of California mosses, collected by Dr. M.
A. Howe. Exchange.
Nylander, Mr. Olof O., Caribou, Maine: Four pamphlets. Gift.
O’Keefe, Mr. T. C., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A set of three
eggs of the Nuttall Sparrow, from deserted nest in Golden Gate
Park. Gift.
Osterhout, Mr. George E., New Windsor, Colorado: Five botanical speci-
mens from Colorado. Gift.
Otis, Mr. J. C, Seattle, Washington: Seventy-four botanical specimens
from Chelan and King counties, Washington. Gift.
Paige, Mrs. George, San Francisco: Forty-one volumes. Gift.
Pechart, Miss Ruth, Boulder Creek: One botanical specimen from Boul-
der Creek. Gift.
Peers, Miss Susie, San Francisco: Sundry volumes. Gift.
Perkins, Miss Janet, San Francisco: Thirteen botanical specimens from
California. Gift.
156 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 41H Ser.
Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, Australia: Fourteen
maps. Gift.
Phelps, Mr. Howard E., Pullman, Washington: Fifty botanical specimens
from Pullman. Gift.
Phelps, Mrs. Kate E., San Francisco: Twenty plants from Leavenworth,
Washington. Gift.
Pope, Dr. Saxton, Butler Building, San Francisco: Four grizzly bear
skins and skeletons from the Yellowstone Park. Gift.
Porter, Dr. Charles B., San Francisco: One Japanese sword. Gift.
Probert, Mrs., San Francisco: Five books and one pamphlet. Gift.
Putnam’s, G. P. Sons, New York: Six books. Gift.
Putnam, Mrs. Osgood, San Francisco: Sundry Academy publications.
Gift.
Raspail, Mr. Xavier, Gouvieux, France: One book (Trente ans de critiques
medicales et scientifiques——Raspail et Pasteur). Gift.
Reed, Mrs. C. A., Santa Cruz: Fourteen botanical specimens from Santa
Cruz. Gift.
Reynolds, Mr. L. R., Watertown, Massachusetts: One hundred and thirty-
eight Hemiptera from Orizaba, Mexico. Gift.
Rhodes, Mrs. M. B., Monterey: Three Western Evening Grosbeaks in flesh.
Gift.
Rixford, Mr. G. P., San Francisco: Four botanical specimens. Gift.
Ruble, Mr. Russell, Geddes, South Dakota: A collection of nine bird eggs
from Geddes, South Dakota. Gift.
Ruddock, Mr. George T., Bakersfield: One botanical specimen from
Bakersfield. Gift.
Sayler, Mr. F. L., Berkeley: One hummingbird’s nest: Gift.
Schieffelin, Miss Rose G., Medford, Oregon: One botanical specimen from
Medford. Gift.
Seale, Mr. Alvin, Santa Cruz: Seven specimens of the Philippine window-
shell, Placuna plicenta, from Manila Bay, P. I. Gift.
Sessions, Miss Kate O., San Diego: Three botanical specimens from San
Diego. Gift.
Slevin, Mr. Joseph R., California Academy of Sciences: Thirty-one sala-
manders, one snake and two lizards; five salamanders from San Ma-
teo County; 14 bats from Santiago, Lower California; 125 specimens
of land mollusks from Arizona; one land shell from Lower Cali-
fornia; a collection of eight bird eggs from Arizona. Exploration.
Six photographs of desert plants. Gift.
Small, Mr. E. C, Berkeley: One specimen of Vanadium ore from Ari-
zona. Gift.
Smith, Miss Emily, San Francisco: Two botanical specimens from Col-
linsville. Gift.
Smith, Mr. L. E., Sisson: One botanical specimen from Siskiyou County;
Flora of California, Parts 1-2 by W. I. Jepson. Gift.
Stanford University, through Dr. David Starr Jordan: Five slabs of fossil
fishes from Lompoc. Gift.
Stanley, Mrs., Colusa: Two skins of Terns; and 20 botanical specimens
from Korea. Gift.
Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920 157
Stoney, Miss Kate D., San Francisco: Two botanical specimens from
San Luis Obispo and one from the Grand Cafon. Gift.
Sutliffe, Mrs. E. C, San Francisco: One hundred and eighty-four speci-
mens of cultivated and native plants of California. Gift.
Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia: Two maps.
Gift.
Tableman, Mr. Fred, Newark, New Jersey: Two mounted radulz of mol-
lusks. Exchange.
Thompson, Mr. David G., United States Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C.: Seven botanical specimens from California. Gift.
Townsley, Mr. F. S. Yosemite: One flying squirrel and two cardinals.
Gift.
Turner, Miss Laura A. L., Pasadena: One botanical specimen from Pasa-
dena. Gift.
Van Denburgh, Dr. John, California Academy of Sciences: One lizard
from Pekin, China. Gift.
Van Duzee, Mr. E. P., California Academy of Sciences: Seven hundred
moths from Mount Tamalpais; 1298 insects from San Diego; 370
insects from Sacramento; 2672 insects from Monterey County; 411
insects from Marin County; 3823 insects taken in western Washing-
ton and on Vancouver Island during June and July. Exploration.
One book. Gift.
Van Duzee, Mr. E. P. and Mrs. Helen, California Academy of Sciences:
Three hundred and eighteen insects from Half Moon Bay, San Mateo
County. Exploration.
Van Duzee, Mrs. Helen, California Academy of Sciences: Three hundred
and eighty-three insects from western Washington and Vancouver
Island. Gift.
Van Dyke, Dr. E. C, University of California, Berkeley: Fifteen hundred
and seventy-three insects from Vancouver Island and Washington,
largely from Mount Rainier; 117 land shells from various parts of
the United States and Canada; four salamanders and three frogs
from Washington; six salamanders from Vancouver Island; and one
land shell from Seattle. Gift.
Walther, Mr. Eric, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: Eight hundred and
twenty-four cultivated and native plants of California. Gift.
Walter, Mr. Frank, Los Angeles: Two botanical specimens from San
Diego, one from Mount Wilson, 10 from Santa Barbara, and two
from Los Angeles. Gift.
Walter, Miss Henrietta, San Diego: One botanical specimen from San
Diego. Gift.
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.: Publications Nos.
272, 282, 297, and 298. Gift.
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: Two vol-
umes of Academy’s proceedings. Gift.
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C.: Twenty-
five maps. Gift.
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D, C.: Four maps.
Gift.
158 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Proc. 47TH Ser.
Weeks, Dr. Alanson, San Francisco (through Mr. John C. Augsbury, San
Francisco): Forty-four specimens of Eskimo workmanship, collected
in Bering Sea about 1898-1900. Gift.
West, Mr. Harry P., San Francisco: Seven botanical specimens from
Plumas County. Gift.
Westdahl, Mrs. F., San Francisco: Thirty-five specimens of ornamental
shells. Gift.
Wible, Mr. Curtis, Bakersfield: One botanical specimen from Bakersfield.
Gift.
Wilkens, Mrs. Johanna E., San Francisco: One botanical specimen from
Golden Gate Park. Gift.
Williams, Mr. F. X., Honolulu, T. H.: Ten adults and 2 pupe of Cellerio
callida from Hawaiian Islands, mounted and determined; 20 speci-
mens of butterflies and moths from Arizona; 17 frogs, and 11 lizards
from North Queensland, Australia; one lizard from Hawaiian
Islands; and one snake from Philippine Islands. Gift.
Wilson, Mrs. Arnott, Atlas: Three botanical specimens. Gift.
Wilson, Mr. Charles J., London, England: Eighty-one study skins of birds
from Malay States. Gift.
Winterberg, Dr. Wolrad, San Francisco: One male Lewis Woodpecker.
Gift.
Wollenburg, Mr., San Francisco: One albino gopher in flesh. Gift.
Wright, Miss Alice B., San Francisco: One specimen of Pinus mono-
phylla from Nevada. Gift.
Wright, Mrs. E., Calistoga: Two botanical specimens. Gift.
Vor. X) EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1921
April 1, 1920, Balance due Crocker National Bank
Receipts
OXY ay Bee cree rena ric ORAS SEO aoc ene Rts $ 3,550.00
Charles Crocker Scientific Fund Endowment In-
COME? ss neice es CARERS RO TBA ESIC eS 1,318.84
James Lick Endowment Income.................. 53,076.83
Generalilincome joc ccenien ater csrotaiaisis pareisnnaye tec 16,172.03
John W. Hendrie Income Account................ 900.00
Ignatz: Steinhart Drust Interests. 2)... <0. ./00ses 18,233.77
Yosemite Game Paddocks Donations.............. 505.00
William C. Van Antwerp Donation................ 120.00
Walliam MM: Fitzhugh’ Donations. '... 0.01. ./jee10.6)e 5: 200.00
eel Grant sD) onatio mis rays sye:eiater tests ore cahatarefoyarsyevelerereve 100,00
Albert:-Meyer! Donation). c2)ciere erccaciaisie.sia(oleiwieievayeueye's 250.00
Mz Hall McAllister Donation.’ Je)... 62's oye « oles ciew see 1,000.00
WAS sel reasurylGentincatesaacsacesisien tcinseciee es 24,000.00
U. S. Treasury Certificates, Ignatz Steinhart Trust 9,000.00
WisGa Wiig hit: wind i ccccireerarersaicrs sesteteserereretereveinvecere 66.50
Tri teres toy crccisnss ateis ss oi lsielassiecerdovals or aeccrava siotavaTs i shayereotere 944.14
Moolsmand! Equipments cewiss asses os.01 oi cies laisicteloie's 25.00
Barblicationyy cei tee stetstsre\s:aveis a)elsraieis ole. apavsinzeverele/epeteleisters 209.85
Sundry AGVan COS Matar: sisjarsfo) civil sieyevanccehet s\esepe'siecorssslatsi eto 79.42
INACUS ea Trat eyes ces chive hintsveraieiacsi sverefertuc seiare ain tveeterensloreeeGrexs 108.40
DEAD reariyee ce ee devas ev seevoveted ss cay eievede a aise tae ane eave, apebele ays! sores 7.97
Posts Garde Salesii.cdccsscivos netvasiatere cies syste ecicletn) sity 1,995.99
159
$2,111.47
131,863.74
$129,752.27
160 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H Ser.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER—Continued
Receipts
Brought, forward! siavctsrictecte ete ie stale otelsiatsicters
Expenditures
PEXPENSE. S4-c.2 averse eteceled sisse.s 210 a/aiaisielsiajaiasacsrsssiorerasejsigivcers $ 2,730.07
General) Salary Expense: 220.0002 -cecaccnce ss cieeee 17,237.42
Mega lige xpensesy tise «ss stele sieusreeleiele mere aieeaetelaees 149.90
Bills) Payable rere crccersiec ots-<-niclessisys vie steeiiowsinieee sare ee 10,000.00
ris WirraTi COW acsstis x cee race sscare eerste sharers ate ateveraseiel avn teterer 1,821.63
Mniterest 2 eke arao crave retarc cual tC ne trevncoreie e ereiens oisteewels 15,886.11
Museum, Department Appropriations............. 8,637.83
Museum, Department Appropriations, Salaries.... 11,367.52
Deg Bear ye 5c sta coos ois tz aan: are (a lonerevenctars) s sysie'e Sioeie esis avers 2,026.37
Publication: visievc ov c-e-acewiiele e evesistere-oeayetein diare eiaretsvarers 4,067.94
Office EP taenitne® cescts areas ol elerererareidarepetereiseatele steiner 9.36
Tools and Equipmentac scm. ences cite esaeeeiae ce. 57.25
Ignatz Steinhart Trust Interests......<ic00000<e 25 ec 119.96
Steinhart Aquarium Preliminary Expense......... 2,190.85
U. S. Treasury Certificates, Ignatz Steinhart Trust 19,000.00
WL eSi Treasury (Gertaficatesiy., cra ccicis sielerstare ile reeterets 27,000.00
Post) (Garde Salesian cceciersrieots siapstmaieis aimee crease 424.60
Roosevelt Elk Groups. 2 sies ecscais aires aicisiereieis(re 910 /e1e% 10.75
Grizzly Bears Group o.csons). emesis ce oerejae saat siete 24.92
Sundry Greditors) <1 asieresrcte anes sisters om cuctaarare sn 2,088.37
Sundry Advances (Museum)............--0eee0- 5,529.73
Wosemite Game Paddocksiiii. <.:. sccseeeces cease 1,840.50
Contingent: Bund. Wee caccveenselcisicie® stots ster ereisterete> 287.81
March 31, 1921, Balance due Crocker National Bank
RupotpeH J. Taussic,
$129,752.27
$132,508.89
$ 2,756.62
By C. E. Grunsxy, Treasurer
Examined and found correct.
McLaren, Goove & Co., Certified Public Accountants.
San Francisco, Cal., April 18, 1921.
——
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Vor. X] EVERMANN—DIRECTOR’S REPORT FOR 1920
INCOME AND OPERATING EXPENSES
For the Period April 1, 1920, to March 31, 1921
Income:
Charles Crocker Scientific Fund Endowment
TIN COME?? is fo eters foteta sio.0:2:c loaders so baiers Sis di ereresis
James Lick Endowment Income..............
Generali Income saci ccsste cus decries sie eis! ecoveveteisit:s
DUES seria crattiavajasarats save, aero Nai S Moves ns Sovleis eo Caceays
Expenditures:
General (Expense. casiesiecios «veins rare ee viet sees $ 2,869.05
CEIETS CCHS SBOE RCIA aI aT RC RRS Sane 28,797.53
Regal Expenses? (c2:i/eiesaisin(sieie sish wists wes sles ae 149.90
ATNTERES Chala tsinrarsislolsrese siete aystaralecortuslnvecois eiaiare sitieaseaie 14,869.90
MTS UANCE mas ah gare aioe sinners ici ce enieiay shore. viaje foros = 1,821.63
Balance to: Surplus! Accounts .2.2 sce scccrete sare aoe tier 25,714.69
$74,222.70
SUMMARY OF SURPLUS ACCOUNT
March 31, 1921
BalancesMarchy ois 1920) e retetccaterat siete oie ieiarsreosacsseseleverote
Add Excess of Income over Operating Expenses. $25,714.69
‘ Library Account, Purchases from W. G.
Wiright Fund! inv1920-21) 5. ee cee ecules 66.50
John W. Hendrie Endowment Income....... 988.58
Rost Gard pales iis). ects ccpevei orotecs every oseuoteje Gots 1,229.28
Albert, Meyer Donation... .< sec .ccs0cccsccises 150.00
Besse Depreciation), singed saree vosraaige s sacreaciew aes
IGNATZ STEINHART TRUST
March 31, 1921
Bequest from the Ignatz Steinhart Estate.........
Interest on temporary investments................
Balance Investments over Receipts............
Investments :
Steinhart Aquarium Preliminary Expense..... $ 2,993.56
Temporary Investments :
Bills Receivables .t:: seve. etictsspetveey oo co esses 250.000.00
Us oebreasury Certificates. .carec cee rs 19,000.00
$271,993.56
161
$ 1,318.84
53,076.83
16,172.03
3,655.00
$74,222.70
$335,115.60
28,149.05
$363,264.65
14,885.88
$348,378.77
$250,000.00
21,962.44
31.12
$271,993.56
162 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
BALANCE SHEET
March 31, 1921
Assets
Real Estate:
Market Street Lots.cc5 joc sceccalncemesieianss $600,000.00
JesstesStreet Lotenc..ce sae cele soseisee ss os 8,083.65
Commercial! Building .i:6c <iccc/cc leis cs visio oe 516,818.66
Stocks:
60 Shares Savings Union Branch of the Mer-
Cantile TrustiGo.. sic cc csicseejoeterasuieieieeres
Ignatz Steinhart Trust:
Bills Receivable ~iz.c dcisincess ie cers c's \scrers Serereie 250,000.00
U.. So Treasury Certificates: i:..¢0. 20200 ce 19,000.00
Steinhart Aquarium Preliminary Investment. 993.56
Steinhart Aquarium Building Appropriation. 2,000.00
WS) Dreasuny Gertificatese. ssc cccieic celeste:
Museum Construction osc. scsi: scicictereresisieierensl's
Museum:
General) (Collections) caus cise sions sieieiete es ove 102,268.49
Toolscand ‘Equipments. cc... cicielciviee smieiciess 24,134.15
Library :
Books and Equipment................-00005 20,848.16
PubCatiOMm.< 6). e<ielsaveseeroe is sas sisicis aaieieiesiaiace 25,712.44
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Boreign Texchange) scerraiccieciaeatsuis ietarsiets ore eomtararel >
Sundry Advances:
Gulf of California Expedition.............. 4,988.07
Prager’ Herbarium feaces asic ccircisccciwleecie 156.03
Yosemite Game Paddocks............0+-08 335.50
Past, Gards ini Stocks capasecctars etesesnuaie sister eaysiwleveiels ele
[Proc. 47H Ser.
$1,124,902.31
13,600.00
271,993.56
14,000.00
191,690.92
126,402.64
46,560.60
3,338.69
128.23
5,479.60
3,266.96
$1,801,363.51
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Liabilities
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eS $838,502.31
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—— 2,702.05
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$1,801,363.51
W. W. SARGEANT,
Secretary, Board of Trustees.
We have examined the foregoing Balance Sheet, together with the books
and accounts of the CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, and in our opinion
it is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the
Academy’s affairs, as shown by the books.
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Certified Public Accountants.
San Francisco, Cal.,
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INDEX TO VOLUME X, FOURTH SERIES
New names in heavy-faced type
Abrams, Leroy, 122
Acridine, 72, 73
Adelphomyia, 39
affinis, Pituophis sayi, 26
African Chameleon, 77
Aitken, R. G., 123, 133
Alexander, Charles P., Undescribed
Tipulide (Diptera) from Western
North America, 35-46, 121
Allen, Lewis, 150
Allen, W. E., 133
allyniana, Epiphragmophora tudiculata,
54
Alvord, William, 119
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, Pacific Division, 133
anachoreta, Helix, 57
analis, Xylota, 52
annectens, Pituophis catenifer, 2-5,
10-13, 17
Anolis carolinensis, 77-117
arcuata, Ormosia, 36
Arizona Gopher-Snake, 24
Ashly, Mrs. A. H., 150
atrox, Caudisona, 29, 30
sonoraensis, Caudisona, 29
Augsbury, Mrs. John C., 150
auricaudata, Myiolepta, 52
aurinota, Myiolepta, 52
avus, Epiphragmophora cuyamacensis,
64
Bailey, George A., 150
Barbat, William, 129, 146, 150
Bartsch, Paul, 56, 62
Bassinger, A. J., 150
Beall, M. E., 123
beatula, Tipula, 44
Beck, Donovan Wayne, 150
Becker, J. O., 159
Bergman, Charles, 150
Berry, S. Stillman, Notes on Some Un-
described Californian Helices, 53-70;
121, 146, 150
Bethel, Ellsworth, 150
Bibliography, Color-Changing Animals,
111-115
Recent Papers by Barton Warren
Evermann, 134-135
Recent Papers by G. Dallas
Hanna, 135
Recent Papers by Joseph Mail-
liard, 135
Recent Papers by John Van Den-
burgh, 136
Recent Papers by Edward P.
Van Duzee, 137
West Coast Land Shells, 64
Binney, W. G., 57
bituberculata, Tipula, 44
bivittata, Xylota, 52
Blackmore, E. H., 139
Blaisdell, F. E., 150
Blanchard, F. L., 142
Blazic, Antone, 150
Borden, Ralph, 150
Boston Society of Natural History, 150
bottz botte, Charina, 31, 32
Charina bottx, 31, 32
utahensis, Charina, 31
Bourn, William B., 119
Brandegee, Mrs. Mary K., 120
Brashear, Dr. John A., 120
Brimley, C. S., 150
Brooks, Ben., 150
Briicke, E., 77, 81, 91, 92, 97, 102
Bryant, H. C., 122
Bud, Charles, 150
Burlingame, L. L., 122
Button, Fred. L., 150
cahuilla, Tipula, 43
Cain, B. €C., 150
California Botanical Club, 138, 150
California State Floral Society, 150
californicus, Gymnopternus, 48
Campbell, Douglas H., 122
Campbell, Mrs. Marian L., 129, 138,
151
Campbell, W. W., 123
Cappleman, Mrs. O. C., 151
carbicolor, Myiolepta, 51
Carlson, John J., 129
Carlton, F., 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 87,
93-97, 98, 100, 102, 109
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
DiGeels7:
carolinensis, Anolis, 77-117
166 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
carpenteri, Helix, 56
Cassino, S. E., 151
catenifer annectens, Pituophis, 2-5,
10-13, 17
catenifer, Pituophis, 2-5, 11-13, 18
deserticola, Pituophis, 5, 10-13,
19, 24, 26
heermanni, Pituophis, 4, 5, 10-13,
16
Pituophis catenifer, 2-5, 11-13, 18
rutilus, Pituophis, 11, 12, 24
sayi, Pituophis, 26
stejnegeri, Pituophis, 11, 12, 21
Caudisona atrox, 29, 30
sonoraensis, 29
exsul, 29, 30
Chameleon vulgaris, 81, 84, 91, 109
Chameleon, African, 77
Florida, 77
Charina, 31
Charina bottx bottw, 31, 32
utahensis, 31
Chilton, Charles, 151
chrysoderma, Epiphragmophora
traskil, 55, 57
Clark, Bruce L., 133, 144, 145
Clemens, Joseph C., 21
Clemens, Mrs. Joseph C., 151
Clokey, Ira W., 151
Coast Gopher-Snake, 13
Cobb, John N., 133
Cockayne, A. H., 121
Cole, F. R., 45, 139
Cole, Marjorie, 151
Coleman, R. A., 151
convergens, Gymnopternus, 49
Cope, E. D., 29
Cordillacris, 72
cornutum, Phrynosoma, 83
coronadoensis, Epiphragmophora
traskii, 56, 57
Crested Lizard, 33
Crocker, Charles, 119
Crocker, William H., 119, 126, 149,
151
Crocker, Mrs. William H., 151
Crook, A. R., 151
Crotalus lucasensis, 29
[Proc. 4TH Ser.
Crowell, A. Russell, 151
Curran, C. Howard, 151
cuyamacensis avus, Epiphragmophora,
64
Daggett, Dr. Frank S., 120
Danford, Miss, 151
Danmar, William, 151
David, Evan J., 151
Davis, John, 151
Day, Charles E., 151
Dean, W. E., 151
Degner, D., 102
De la Motte, G. W., 152
Department Reports, 137
Desert Gopher-Snake, 19
deserticola, Pituophis catenifer, 5,
10-13, 19, 24, 26
Dickerson, Roy E., 129, 152
Dipsosaurus dorsalis, 33
dorsalis, 33, 34
lucasensis, 33, 34
Ditmars, R. L., 77-79, 85, 86
Dodge, E. A., 140, 152
Donohoe, Mrs. J. A., 152
dorsalis, Dipsosaurus, 33
dorsalis, 33, 34
dorsalis, Dipsosaurus, 33, 34
lucasensis, Dipsosaurus, 33, 34
Doubleday, Page & Co., 152
Dunn, George W., 137
Dunne, Peter F., 119
Durand, W. F., 123, 133
Eastwood, Alice, Report of the Depart-
ment of Botany, 1920, 137-139; 121,
129, 133, 140, 152
Edwards, George W., 130, 152
Emerson collection, 126
Epiphragmophora, 145
cuyamacensis avus, 64
nickliniana, 57
petricola, 59, 61, 62
orotes, 60, 62
sangabrielis, 62
stearnsiana, 56
traskii, 59
chrysoderma, 55, 57
coronadoensis, 56, 57
traskii, 62
willetti, 58
Vou. X.)
tudiculata, 55
allyniana, 54
umbilicata, 55
zeche#, 62, 64
Eriopterini, 35
Esselenia, 71, 72
vanduzeei, 72, 73
Essig, E. O., 121
Eulimnophila, 39
quadrata, 39
recondita, 39
tenuipes, 39
Evermann, Barton Warren, Report of
the Director of the Museum for the
Year 1920, 128-158; 120, 121, 122,
123, 124, 125, 129, 133, 152
evidens, Tipula, 44, 45
exsul, Caudisona, 29, 30
Baix, (Cy A’,)152
Falkenau, Louis, 152
fasciger, Rhabdomastix (Sacandaga), 36
Financial Statements, 159-163
Fisher, W. K., Report of the Depart-
ment of Invertebrate Zoology, 146;
122, 129
Fleishhacker, Herbert, 119
Flett, J. B., 152
flexuosus, Praunus, 102
Florida Chameleon, 77
Fox, Anna P., 152
Hox. Gab. pLo2
Friends of Irish Freedom, 152
Fuchs, R. F., 77
Fundulus heteroclitus, 102, 110
Gadow, H., 78
Gardner, N. L., 122
Garey, Dr., 109
Gauthier-Villars et Cie., 152
Geckos, 77
Ghirardelli, Mrs. Domingo, 153
Giffard, W. M., 140, 152
Gilbert, Arch M., 153
Gilchrist, F. G., 148, 154
Gonomyia leta, 36
schistacea, 36
Goodman, E., 153
INDEX
167
Gopher-Snake, Arizona, 24
Coast, 13
Desert, 19
San Diegan, 17
San Lucan, 27
Utah, 21
Valley, 16
Grant, Adele L., 153
Grant, Chapman, 153
Grant, Joseph D., 119
Graves, Caswell, 83
Gray Herbarium, 151
Greenman, J. M., 138
Grinnell, Joseph, 134
Grundel, J. G., 153
Grunsky, C. E., Report of the Presi-
dent of the Academy for the Year
1920, 119-127; 120, 121
Gymnopternus californicus, 48
convergens, 49
Hackmeier, W. C., 153
Hahn, Mrs., 153
Hall, H. M., 153
Hallawell Seed Co., 153
Hanna, G. Dallas, Report of the De-
partment of Invertebrate Paleontol-
ogy, 143-146; 121, 129, 153
Hannibal, Harold, 60
Hanson, Harold E., 134
Hardesty, Irving, 95, 109
Hawver, Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons, 153
Heath, Harold, 122, 153
Hebard, Morgan, A New Genus and
Species of Grasshopper from Cali-
fornia, 71-75; 120, 121, 140
heermanni, Pituophis catenifer, 4, 5,
10-13, 16
Heim, William, 129, 148
Helix anachoreta, 57
carpenteri, 56
Hellman, I. W., 120
Hendrie, John W., 119
heteroclitus, Fundulus, 102, 110
Hicken, Dr. Cristobal M., 154
Hickman, J. B., 154
Hildebrand, Samuel F., 154
Heller, A. A., 153
Herrin, William F., 153
168 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser.
Hobart, Lewis P., 124
Hobson, Joseph W., 129
Hodgkins, Mrs. L. A., 137
Holladay, Mrs. E. B., 154
Holman, Frank C., 148, 154
Holmes, S. J., 123
Holway, R. S., 123
Hosmer, Mrs. Charlotte, 119, 120
Howe, Henry, 145
Howell, A. B., 154
Hubbard, J. D., 154
Hunter, J. S., 122
Iguanidz, 77
imperator, Ursus, 128
Israelsky, Merle, 129, 146, 154
Jackson, Mrs. Bell R., 154
Johnston, E. C., 138
Johnston, Ivan, 142
Jones, Vincent, 154
Jordan, David Starr, 154
Kahn and Lieben, 102
Keller, R., 77, 91-102, 107, 109
Kelly, G. Earle, 120
Kelly, Mrs. G. Earle, 154
Kew, W. S. W., 146
Kofoid, C. A., 122
Kihne, 97
Kusche, J. Aug., 154
leta, Gonomyia, 36
Lastreto, C. B., 121
Law, J. Eugene, 134, 154
Leavy, Aiken, 154
Lehrkind, O. F., 154
Le Masters, C., 154
Leuschner, A. O., 123
Lewis, E. P., 123, 133
Lewis, William C., 129, 154
Lick, James, 119
Limnobiine, 35
Limnophila, 37
subaptera, 38
ultima, 38
Limnophilini, 37
Lindley, Curtis H., 120
Linsley, Earle G., 123
Littlejohn, Chase, 129, 148
Lizard, Crested, 33
Lockwood, S., 79
Loomis, L. M., 134
Lovett, A. L., Two New Species of
Syrphide (Diptera), 51-52; 121
Lowe, H. N., 60
lucasensis, Crotalus, 29
Dipsosaurus dorsalis, 33, 34
Maag, Fred., 130, 154
MacDougal, D. T., 133
Mackenzie, Kenneth M., 139
Macomber, A. Kingsley, 119
Mailliard, John W., 119, 126, 149, 151
154
Mailliard, Joseph, Report of the De-
partment of Mammalogy, 147
'
Report of the Department of
Ornithology, 148-149; 119, 129,
154
Martin, Bruce, 120
Martin, J. O., 140, 155
Masters, Mrs. Cornelia S., 155
McAllister, M. Hall, 119, 155
McCarte, Archie, 130
McLaren, John, 155
McLellan, Mary E., 129, 155
MeMurphy, J. I. W., 122
megalabiata, Tipula, 45
megatergata, Tipula, 45, 46
Meierdierks, Marie, 155
Meiere, Mrs. Ernest, 155
Meinecke, E. P., 133
Menzies, Robert, 155
Merriam, John C., 133
Merritt, Dr. Emma Sutro, 146
Merritt, Dr. George W., 146
Mesochloa, 71, 72
Michaels, Mrs. Enid Reeves, 138, 155
Miller, Mrs. C. E., 155
Miller, Irving, 155
Miller, Miss, 151
Mills, Ogden, 119, 125, 128
montanus, Porphyrops, 47
Montague, W. W., 120
Moore, J. H., 123
Moore, J. W., 133
Morgan, Percy T., 120
Morrison, Alexander F., 119
VoL. X.]
Mouzin, Nicholas, 155
Moxley, George L., 155
mundus, Porphyrops, 48
Museum Statistics, 130
Myiolepta auricaudata, 52
aurinota, 52
carbicolor, 51
Neolimnophila, 37
New Church Press, 155
Newell, Mrs. Gwendolyn, 155
New South Wales, Geological Survey
of, 157
New York Botanical Garden, 155
nickliniana, Epiphragmophora, 57
nigronitida, Ulomorpha, 39, 40
Nylander, Olof O., 155
O’Brien, Patrick J., 130
O'Keefe, T. C., 155
Ommexechine, 71
Ormosia, 35
arcuata, 36
paradisea, 35, 36
orotes, Epiphragmophora petricola, 60,
62
Osterhout, George E., 155
Otis sje C055
Pacific Division American Association
for the Advancement of Science, 133
Packard, E. L., 133, 146
Paige, Mrs. George, 155
Paine, John Howard, 53
Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, 132
paradisea, Ormosia, 35, 36
Parker, G. H., 82, 83, 86, 102, 109
Pechart, Ruth, 155
Peers, Susie, 129, 155
Peirce, George J., 123
Perkins, Janet, 155
petricola, Epiphragmophora, 59, 61, 62
orotes, Epiphragmophora, 60, 62
sangabrielis, Epiphragmophora, 62
Phelps, Howard E., 156
Phelps, Mrs. Kate E., 129, 156
Phlibostroma, 71, 72
Phrynosoma, 84
cornutum, 83
tegale, 83
INDEX
169
pilosella, Ulomorpha, 39-41
Pituophis, 1, 26
catenifer annectens, 2-5, 10-13, 17
catenifer, 2-5, 11-13, 18
deserticola, 5, 10-13, 19,
24, 26
heermanni, 4, 5, 10-13, 16
rutilus, 11, 12, 24
sayi, 26
stejnegeri, 11, 12, 21
sayi affinis, 26
vertebralis, 3, 5, 10-12, 27
Pope, G. D., 126
Pope, Dr. Saxton, 121, 126, 128, 156
Porphyrops montanus, 47
mundus, 48
Porter, Charles B., 156
Pouchet, G., 77, 93, 95, 97, 98, 102,
107
Prager Herbarium, 127
Praunus flexuosus, 102
Probert, Mrs., 156
Psoloessa, 72
Punchard, Charles P., 120
Putnam, Mrs. Osgood, 156
Putnam’s Sons, G. P., 156
quadrata, Eulimnophila, 39
quinque-cellula, Ulomorpha, 39, 40
Rana temporaria, 102, 110
Raspail, Mr. Xavier, 156
Rathbun, Mary J., 145
recondita, Eulimnophila, 39
Redfield, A. C., 83, 84
Reed, Mrs. C. A., 156
regale, Phrynosoma, 83
Reynolds, L. R., 156
Rhabdomastix, 36, 37
(Sacandaga) fasciger, 36
Rhodes, Mrs. M. B., 156
Rich, Willis H., 133
Richardson, Miss, 145
Ritter, Wm. E., 133
Rixford, G. P., 156
Ronneberg, Trygve, 124
Ruble, Russell, 156
Ruddock, George T., 156
Ruthven, A. G., 26, 27
170 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
rutilus, Pituophis catenifer, 11, 12, 24
Sacandaga, 36
(Sacandaga) fasciger, Rhabdomastix, 36
Saccardo, Dr. Pier Andrea, 120
Safford, W. E., 123
San Diegan Gopher-Snake, 17
Sanford, Helen, 140
sangabrielis, Epiphragmophora petri-
cola, 62
San Lucan Gopher-Snake, 27
Sargeant, W. W., Financial State-
ments, 159-163; 129, 133
sayi affinis, Pituophis, 26
Pituophis catenifer, 26
Sayler, F. L., 156
Schieffelin, Rose G., 156
schistacea, Gonomyia, 36
Schools, Cooperation with, 130
Scofield, N. B., 122
Seale, Alvin, 156
Sessions, Kate O., 156
Sidney, Geological Survey of New
South Wales, 157
sierricola, Ulomorpha, 39, 40
Slevin, Joseph R., 1, 24, 30, 31, 34,
129, 156
Slonaker, J. R., 133
Sloss, Leon, 120
Small, E. C., 156
Smith, Allyn G., 54
Smith, Emily, 156
Smith, L. E., 120, 156
Smith, J. P., 122
Smith, Raymond, 129
Smithsonian Institution, 130
Snyder, J. O., 122
Soares, Antone J., 138
Solms-Laubach, Prof. Dr. H. zu, 120
Sonerella, 59
sonoraensis, Caudisona atrox, 29
South Australia, Geological Survey, 149
Spaeth, R. A., 102
Stanford University, 156
Stanley, Mrs. Mary, 156
Starks E.G. 022
Starratt, S. A., 82-84, 86, 109
stearnsiana, Epiphragmophora, 56
Steindachner, Dr. Franz, 120
[Proc. 47H Sup.
Steinhart Aquarium, 123
Steinhart, Ignatz, 119
stejnegeri, Pituophis catenifer, 11, 12,
21
Stellio, 83
sternata, Tipula, 46
Stirapleura, 71, 72, 73
Stock, Chester, 133
Stoney, Kate D., 157
Storer, Tracy I., 121, 133, 134
Stoy, Sam. B., 120
subaptera, Limnophila, 38
subfasciata, Xylota, 52
Sutliffe, Mrs. E. C., 138, 157
Sutro Library, Adolph, 146
Swarth, H. S., 121, 134
Tableman, Fred, 157
temporaria, Rana, 102, 110
tenuipes, Eulimnophila, 39
tergata, Tipula, 46
Thamnophis, 1
Thompson, David G., 157
Thompson, W. F., 122
Thorn, S. F., 126
Tipula beatula, 44
bituberculata, 44
cahuilla, 43
evidens, 44, 45
megalabiata, 45
megatergata, 45, 46
sternata, 46
tergata, 46
trichophora, 41
Tobin, Clement, 120
Townley, S. D., 123
Townsley, F. S., 157
Traquair, Dr. Ramsay H., 120
traskii, 59
chrysoderma, Epiphragmophora,
555157
coronadoensis, Epiphragmophora,
56, 57
Epiphragmophora traskii, 62
traskii, Epiphragmophora, 62
willetti, Epiphragmophora, 58
trichophora, Tipula, 41
Troyer, Carlos, 120
Vou. X.]
tudiculata allyniana, Epiphragmophora,
54
Epiphragmophora, 55
umbilicata, Epiphragmophora, 55
Turner, Laura A. L., 157
Ulomorpha, 38
nigronitida, 39, 40
pilosella, 39-41
quinque-cellula, 39, 40
sierricola, 39, 40
vanduzeei, 39, 40, 41
ultima, Limnophila, 38
umbilicata, Epiphragmophora tudicu-
lata, 55
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 157
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 157
U. S. National Museum, 130
University of Oregon, 152
Uromastix, 83
Ursus imperator, 128
Use of the Collections, 133
utahensis, Charina botta, 31
Utah Gopher-Snake, 21
Valley Gopher-Snake, 16
Van Antwerp, William C., 119
Van Denburgh, John, Description of a
New Lizard (Dipsosaurus dorsalis
lucasensis) from Lower California,
33-34
Description of a New Species of
Rattle-Snake (Crotalus lucasen-
sis) from Lower California,
29-30
Description of a New Subspecies
of Boa (Charina bottae ta-
hensis) from Utah, 31-32
Further Study of Variation in
the Gopher-Snakes of Western
North America, 1-27
Report of the Department of
Herpetology, 1920, 141-142;
120, 129, 157
Van Duzee, Edward P., Librarian’s
Report, 146-147
Report of the Department of
Entomology, 139-141; 35, 71,
75,0120), 12958 157)
Van Duzee, Mrs. Helen, 129, 157
INDEX 171
Van Duzee, Millard C., Three New
Species of Dolichopodide (Diptera)
from California and Nevada, 47-49;
121
vanduzeci, Esselenia, 72, 73
Ulomorpha, 39, 40, 41
Van Dyke, E. C., 157
Van Wagenen, Gertrude, 146
Vaughan, T. Wayland, 145
Veranus, 83
vertebralis, Pituophis, 3, 5, 10-12, 27
Vertigo, 57
Victoria, Australia, Department of
Mines, 159
Vogelsang, H. W., 147
Von Geldern, Charles E., Color
Changes and Structure of the Skin
of Anolis carolinensis, 77-117
Vorbe, Georges, 129, 146
vulgaris, Chameleon, 81, 84, 91, 109
Wallace, W. S., 146
Walter, Henrietta, 157
Walther, Eric, 138, 157
Weeks, Alanson, 158
Weill, Raphael, 120
West, Harry P., 158
Western Australia, Geological Survey
of, 156
Westdahl, Mrs. F., 158
Wible, Curtis, 158
Wilkens, Mrs. Johanna E., 130, 138,
158
Willett, George, 56, 59
willetti, Epiphragmophora traskii, 58
Williams, F. X., 158
Wilson, Mrs. Arnott, 158
Wilson, Charles J., 158
Winterberg, Wolrad, 158
Wollenburg, Mr., 158
Wright, Alice B., 158
Wright, Mrs. E., 158
Wright, W. S., 139
Xantus, John, 29
Xylota analis, 52
bivittata, 52
subfasciata, 52
Yale, Frank W., 130
Young, Arthur, 126
zeche, Epiphragmophora, 62, 64
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