2 RESEARCH NEWS RESEARCH NEWS 6. THREE NEW TREMATODES FROM THE GALAPAGOS Published bimonthly under the auspices of the tice re oe GRADUATE SCHOOL 7. EIGHT NEW SPECIES OF GOBIOID FISHES FROM THE THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN PACIFIC COAST, Isaac Ginspurc. 1938. Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 8. LAND AND BRACKISH, WATER MOLLUSCA OF COCOS aces ISLAND, G. DaLLas HANNA and Leo Georce HERTLEIN. 1938. Editorial Staff J 9. NEMATODE PARASITES OF THE GALAPAGOS LAND Rockwell D. Hunt ee eee eee E ditor IGUANA, Asuton C. CuckLer. (Plates 13-15.) 1938. Welcome A. Tilroe........--------------------eoonoeo Assistant Editor 19 4 NEW SPECIES OF NYCTERIBIIDAE (D1rTerA Advisory Editorial Board PupipaRA) FROM ISLANDS IN THE GULF OF CALI- Emory S. Bogardus Milton Metfessel FORNIA, Hucu Scorr. (Plate 16.) 1939. Harry J. Deuel, Jr. Lawrence M. Riddle 11. A REMARKABLE NEW GENUS OF SEA-URCHIN eee ee ore Shey e eae (SPATANGIDAE), Hupert LYMAN CLARK. (Plate 17.) 1939. 12. MARINE MOLLUSKS FROM PANAMA COLLECTED BY VoL. IV MAY, 1939 No. 3 THE ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION TO THE GALA- ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH The floating marine laboratory, Velero III, recently pre- 1. sented to the University by Captain Allan Hancock as a companion gift to the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scien- tific Research, is now on her eighth major cruise in equa- torial waters of the eastern Pacific, which will take her for the first time into Atlantic waters. With Captain Hancock , as director of the expedition, collections of flora and fauna will be sought along the coasts of Mexico, Central America, South America (particularly Venezuela), and in the waters 4. of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Darien. Participating in this search for rare specimens are Dr. Waldo Schmitt, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum; Dr. William Randolph Taylor, department of botany, University of Michigan; Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth, president of the San Diego Zoological So- ciety; C. B. Perkins, herptologist of the San Diego Zoo; Karl Koch, ornithologist, San Diego Zoo. Research Asso- ciates from The Allan Hancock Foundation of The Uni- 2, versity of Southern California include Granville Ashcraft, Francis Elmore, John Garth, L. Hogan, Alex Hill, Anker Peterson, Charles Wade, and Fred Ziesenhenne. 3. Within the next month the following reports of the scien- tific results of these expeditions will be ready for distri- bution. i VoLUME Two A NEW BRITTLE STAR FROM THE GALAPAGOS IS- LANDS, FRepD ZIESENHENNE. (Plate 1.) 1935. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BLENNIOID FISH OF THE GENUS Acanthemblemaria FROM THE PACIFIC COAST 2. OF PANAMA, Georce S. Meyers and Earu D. Rep. 1936. A NEW GENUS OF DISTOMES (Trematoda) WITH LYMPHATIC VESSELS, H. W. Manrter. (Plate 2.) 1937. PARASITIC COPEPODS TAKEN DURING THE THIRD 1. HANCOCK EXPEDITION TO THE GALAPAGOS IS- LANDS, CuHarLes BRANCH WItson. (Plate 3.) 1937. SOME MONOGENETIC TREMATODES FROM THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS AND THE NEIGHBORING 3, PACIFIC, Frank G. Meserve. (Plates 4-10.) 1938. PAGOS ISLANDS, 1931-1932, A. M. Stronc and Leo GEORGE HERTLEIN. (Plates 18-23.) 1939. VoLUME THREE MOSSES OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, WILLIAM CAMPBELL STEERE. (Plate 1.) 1936. MYXOPHYCEAE OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPE- DITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, FrANcIS Drovet. (Plates 2 and 3.) 1936. LICHENS OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, Carro.i WILLIAM Dopce. 1936. PLANKTON DIATOMS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA OBTAINED BY THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDI- TION OF 1936, W. E. ALLEN. 1937. PLANKTON DIATOMS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA OBTAINED BY ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDI- TION OF 1937, E. E. Cupp and W. E. ALLen. (Plates 4-15.) 1938. VOLUME Four HYDROIDS OF THE 1934 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITION, C. McLean Fraser. (Plates 1-15.) 1938. HYDROIDS OF THE 1936 AND 1937 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS, C. McLean Fraser. (Plates 16-18.) 1938. HYDROIDS OF THE 1932, 1933, 1935, and 1938 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS, C. McLEAn FRASER. (Plates 19-21.) 1938. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HYDROIDS IN THE COLLEC- TIONS OF THE ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITIONS, C. McLEAN FRASER. 1939. VOLUME FIve THREE NEW ANOMURAN CRABS FROM THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA, Steve A. GLASsELL. 1938. NEW BRACHYURAN CRABS FROM THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, JouHn S. GartH. (Plates 1-10.) 1939. VoLUME SIx A REPORT ON SOME ARENACEOUS FORAMINIFERA, JosepH A. CUSHMAN and IRENE McCuttocn. (Plates 1-12.) 1939. VoLUME SEVEN POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS, Part 1. APHRODITIDAE TO PISIONIDAE, OtcA Hartman. (Plates 1-30.) 1939.