実物標本を用い，多様な種を大量に，壁状に広面積に渡って展示し，それら展示資料に関する展示グラフィックは必要最小限にとどめる展示手法である壁状集合展示が，観覧者の昆虫に対する多彩な知覚を刺激し，昆虫に対する興味関心を深めることのできる展示手法となり得るかどうかを評価するため，当該展示を組み入れた展示会において，来館者アンケートを実施した．アンケートの結果から，壁状集合展示は観覧者に対し，珍しい生物に触れることへの関心・感動や，生物の美しさへの関心・感動，生物学的特性への関心・感動を与えることができたと判断された．従って，昆虫の実物標本を用いた壁状集合展示は，生物に対する多彩な知覚を刺激し，生物に対する興味関心を深めることのできる展示手法となり得るものと結論できた．

Phenomenon of stranding marine organism has usually occurred in Japan, mainly caused by seasonal wind in winter or typhoon in summer and fall. Twenty-one species belonging to four families (Moringuidae, Muraenidae, Ophichthidae and Congridae) of Anguilliformes were confirmed as fresh stranded specimens from Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan in January 2016. It is strongly suggested that fishes were in a state of apparent death or died in the extremely low water temperature cooled by a serious cold wave which covered Ryukyu Islands. In the series of the stranded specimens, one specimen of Cirrhimuraena playfairii (Günther, 1870) and four specimens of Yirrkala misolensis (Günther, 1872) were included; they represent the first records of these two species from Japanese waters.

Three species of the Family Plexauridae, genus Echinomuricea, Ec. peterseni Hedlund, 1890 and Ec. sp. aff. spinifera Nutting, 1910, and genus Euplexaura, Eu. abietina Kükenthal, 1908, were collected from Yamaguchi Prefecture at a depth 1–123 m. In the previous studies, Ec. peterseni had been reported from Sagami Bay, Hirado and Hong Kong, Eu. abietina from Sagami Bay and South Korea, but no reports had been known from the waters around Yamaguchi Prefecture. The present study updated the minimum depth record of Ec. peterseni and Eu. abietina. The specimens reported in the study represents the first records of three species from Yamaguchi Prefecture.

A rostrum of a suliform bird from the Lower Oligocene Yamaga Formation of Ashiya Group in Ainoshima Island, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, southwestern Japan is briefly described. The present specimen (KMNH VP 600013) is slender and flat, with a strongly curved rostral tip, a sharply-defined longitudinal groove, and apertura nasi ossea that were likely extremely reduced or absent.

Amphipholis kochii Lütken, 1872 is redescribed based on two discovered specimens from the Sagami Bay, central-eastern Japan. Detailed morphology of internal ossicles as well as external features and sequence of mitochondrial COI gene of A. kochii is provided for the first time.

北九州市立自然史・歴史博物館研究報告A類（自然史）第18号に掲載された下記論文本文中に誤りがありました．

蓑島悠介・真鍋徹・下村通誉・上田恭一郎, 2020. 塗り絵を利用した子供向けアンケート手法の有効性．北九州市立自然史・歴史博物館研究報告A類（自然史），18: 43–48.

（誤）「JP17K15187」（47ページ右段下から1行目）（正）「JP17H02028」