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yvItA te MUSEUM Novitates Numbers 3157-3188 January—December 1996 EDITED BY BRENDA JONES NEw YORK PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1996 CONTENTS AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES Numbers 3157-3188 JANUARY-—DECEMBER 1996 Schematic Revision of Sub-Saharan African Dormice (Rodentia: Myoxi- dae: Graphiurus) Part 1. An Introduction to the Generic Revision, and a Revision of Graphiurus Surdus. MARY ELLEN HOLDEN. 44 pages. Feb- ruary 14, 1996 A New Species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil, with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships. NANCcY B. SIMMONS. 34 pages. February 14, 1996 Biting Midges from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey Amber (Ceratopogon- idae: Diptera). ART BORKENT. 29 pages. February 14, 1996 $3.40 Taxonomic Redefinition of the Species of Acestrorhynchus of the Micro- lepis Group with the Description of Acestrorhynchus apurensis, a New Species from Venezuela (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae). MONICA TOLEDO-PIZA AND NAERCIO A. MENEZES. 23 pages. February New Records of Acanthoceratid Ammonoids from the Upper Cenomanian of South Dakota. W. J. KENNEDY, W. A. COBBAN AND N. H. LANDMAN. 18 pages. April 10, 1996 A Review of the Zelotine Ground Spider Genus Setaphis (Araneae, Gna- phosidae). NORMAN I. PLATNICK AND JOHN A. Murpuy. 23 pages. April Reappraisal of the Cormohipparion from the Valentine Formation, Ne- braska. MICHAEL O. WOODBURNE. 56 pages. April 10, 1996 Synopsis of Late Jurassic Marine Reptiles from Cuba. MANUEL ITURRALDE- VINENT AND MARK A. NORELL. 17 pages. April 11, 1996 $2.15 New Palaeothentid Marsupials (Caenolestoidea) from the Early Miocene of Patagonian Argentina. TODD C. RAE, THOMAS M. BOWN AND JOHN G. FLEAGLE. 10 pages. April 11, 1996 Two New Genera for Pine-Inhabiting Species of Phylini in North America (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae). GARY M. STONEDAHL AND MICHAEL D. SCHWARTZ. 15 pages. May 23, 1996 Paralogy in Cladistic Biogeography and Analysis of Paralogy-Free Sub- trees. G. NELSON AND P. Y. LADIGES. 58 pages. May 23, 1996... .$6.10 A Leptictid Mammal from the Hsanda Gol Formation (Oligocene), Central Mongolia, with Comments on Some Palaeoryctidae. ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER AND MALCOLM C. MCKENNA. 13 pages. May 23, 1996 $2.10 Two New Species of Trochoideus Buquet from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Endomychidae), with Comments on the Neotropical Species Groups. Luis J. JoLy AND CARLOS Borpbon. 10 pages. May 23, 1996 ....$1.60 Catalog of Recent Type Specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. II. Mollusca Part 1 (Classes Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda [Subclass Opisthobranchia], Bivalvia, and Scaphopoda). CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO AND WALTER E. SAGE III. 50 pages. May 23, 1996 A New Species of Chungchienia (Tillodontia, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Lushi, China. MINCHEN CHOW, JINGWEN WANG, AND JIN MENG. 10 pages. May 23, 1996 q A New Herpetofauna from Cerro Yavi, Venezuela: First Results of the Robert G. Goelet-American Museum Terramar Expedition to the North- western Tepuis. CHARLES W. MYERS AND MAUREEN A. DONNELLY. 56 pages. June 26, 1996 Two Species of Placenticeras (Ammonitina) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Interior of the United States. W. J. KEN- NEDY, W. A. COBBAN, AND N. H. LANDMAN. 13 pages. June 26, Catalog of Recent Type Specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. III. “‘Parasitica’’ (Phyla Platy- helminthes, Rhombozoa, and Pentastomida) and Gastotricha (Supple- ment). CHRISTOPHER B. Boyko. 60 pages. June 26, 1996 Description of the Braincase of Two Early Cretaceous Pterosaurs (Ptero- dactyloidea) from Brazil. ALEXANDER WILHELM ARMIN KELLNER. 34 pages. June 26, 1996 New Fossil Species of Termites of the Subfamily Nasutitermitinae from Dominican and Mexican Amber (Isoptera, Termitidae). KUMAR KRISH- NA. 13 pages. August 23, 1996 P Madagascan Poison Frogs (Mantella) and Their Skin Alkaloids. JOHN W. DALY, NIRINA RABE ANDRIAMAHARAVO, MARTA ANDRIANTSIFERANA, AND CHARLES W. Myers. 34 pages. August 23, 1996 A New Hyracodontid (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea) from the Ergilin Dzo Formation (Oligocene, Quarry 1) in Dzamyn Ude, Eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia. DEMBERELYIN DASHZEVEG. 12 pages. August 23, Some Carnivorous Mammals from the Paleogene of the Eastern Gobi Des- ert, Mongolia, and the Application of Oligocene Carnivores to Strati- graphic Correlation. DEMBERELYIN DASHZEVEG. 14 pages. August 23, Phylogenetic Analysis of the Cleptoparasitic Bees Belonging to the No- madinae Based on Mature Larvae (Apoidea: Apidae). JEROME G. Roz- EN, JR. 39 pages. August 23, 1996 Ontogeny of the Ethmoidal Region and Hyopalatine Arch in Micrognathus pancalus (Percomorpha, Mastacembeloidei) with Critical Remarks on Mastacembeloid Inter- and Intrarelationships. RALF Britz. 18 pages. November 22, 1996 The Hand Skeleton of Notharctus tenebrosus (Primates, Notharctidae) and its Significance for the Origin of the Primate Hand. MARK W. HAMRICK AND JOHN P. ALEXANDER. 20 pages. November 22, 1996 Basicranial Anatomy of Priacodon fruitaensis (Triconodontidae, Mam- malia) from the Late Jurassic of Colorado, and a Reappraisal of Mam- maliaform Interrelationships. GUILLERMO W. ROUGIER, JOHN R. WIBLE, AND JAMES A. Hopson. 38 pages. November 22, 1996 Rhinocerotidae from the Middle Miocene of the Tung-gur Formation, In- ner Mongolia (China). ESPERANZA CERDENO. 43 pages. November 22, On the Type Specimens of Two Colombian Poison Frogs Described by A.A. Berthold (1845), and Their Bearing on the Locality “‘Provinz Po- payan’’. CHARLES W. MYERS AND WOLFGANG BOuME. 20 pages. Novem- ber 22, 1996 The Maastrichtian Ammonites Coahuilites sheltoni Bése, 1928, and Sphenodiscus pleurisepta (Conrad, 1857), from the Uppermost Pierre Shale and Basal Fox Hills Formation of Colorado and Wyoming. W. J. KENNEDY, N. H. LANDMAN, AND W. A. CoBBAN. 14 pages. December 3187 Middle-Ear Ossicles of the Multituberculate Kryptobaatar from the Mon- golian Late Cretaceous: Implications for Mammaliamorph Relationships and the Evolution of the Auditory Apparatus. GUILLERMO W. ROUGIER, JOHN R. WIBLE, AND MICHAEL J. NOVACEK. 43 pages. December 31, 3188 Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). JAMES M. CARPENTER. 39 pages. Decem- ber 31, 1996