The following new AMNH Scientific Publications are now available. Click on the title to link to a free download of the publication:

American Museum Novitates
 

• no. 3664: Rediscovery of the Australian pollen wasp Metaparagia doddi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) / by James M. Carpenter and Amy R. Davidson (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3665: Eucricetodon (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the late Oligocene of the Junggar Basin, northern Xinjiang, China / by Olivier Maridet, Wenyu Wu, Jie Ye, Shundong Bi, Xijun Ni, and Jin Meng (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3666: Last larval instar and mature oocytes of the Old World cleptoparasitic bee Stelis murina, including a review of Stelis biology (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Megachilinae, Anthidiini) / by Jerome G. Rozen Jr., and Soliman M. Kamel (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3667: Oocytes, larvae, and cleptoparasitic behavior of Biastes emarginatus (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Nomadinae, Biastini) / by Jerome G. Rozen Jr., Jakub Straka, and Katerina Rezkova (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3668: Paleontology and geochronology of the Deseadan ‪(‬late Oligocene‪)‬ of Moquegua, Perú / by Bruce J. Shockey, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Phillip Gans, Annie Jeong, and John J. Flynn (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3669: The use of molecular phylogenetic and morphological tools to identify cryptic and paraphyletic species : examples from the diminutive long-fingered bats (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae, Miniopterus) on Madagascar / by Steven M. Goodman, Claudette P. Maminirina, Helen M. Bradman, Les Christidis, and Belinda Appleton (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3670: A new species of Gomphos (Glires, Mammalia) from the Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China / by Jin Meng, Brian P. Kraatz, Yuanqing Wang, Xijun Ni, Daniel L. Gebo, and K. Christopher Beard (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3671: The Asteioinea of Fiji (Insecta, Diptera, Periscelididae, Asteiidae, Xenasteiidae) / by David A. Grimaldi (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3672: The goblin spider genus Heteroonops ‪(‬Araneae, Oonopidae‪)‬, with notes on Oonops / by Norman I. Platnick and Nadine Dupérré (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3673: A new genus of microteiid lizard from the Caparaó Mountains, southeastern Brazil, with a discussion of relationships among Gymnophthalminae ‪(‬Squamata‪) / by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, José Cassimiro, Dante Pavan, Felipe Franco Curcio, Vanessa Kruth Verdade, and Kátia Cristina Machado Pellegrino (November 30, 2009).
• no. 3674: Osteology of Andescynodon (Cynodontia, Traversodontidae) from the Middle Triassic of Argentina / by Jun Liu and Jaime Powell (November 30, 2009).

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

• no. 329: Systematic reviews of New Guinea Coccymys and "Melomys" albidens (Muridae, Murinae) with descriptions of new taxa/ by Guy G. Musser, Darrin P. Lunde (December 9, 2009).
• no. 330: Postnatal ontogeny of the skull in the extant North American turtle Sternotherus odoratus (Cryptodira, Kinosternidae)/ by Gabe S. Bever (December 9, 2009).
• no. 331: Systematic mammalogy : contributions in honor of Guy G. Musser/ edited by Robert S. Voss, Michael D. Carleton (December 15, 2009).