552 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



Belcher, during the years 1836-1812, containing the Fish, 

 has appeared in 184-2. It is arranged by Sir John 

 Richardson. This Part embraces the family of the 

 Gobioidei, in which one new genus and some new species are 

 described ; besides these a new Batrachus and a new 

 Synanceia are instituted. The ten lithographic plates 

 exhibit Fishes which have as yet not been treated of in the 

 text. 



The Yerhandelingeii over de natuurlike Geschiedenis der 

 Nederlandsche bezittingen ct. door C. J. Temminck, Zoo- 

 loogie. Leiden 1839, 1844, are completed, as has been stated 

 above in the Report on the Reptilia. The Fish occupy 

 twenty-five pages of text and six plates of figures ; they are 

 arranged by Sal. Miiller and Schlegel, and are limited to 

 three Memoirs : On Osteoylossum formosum ; Description 

 of four species oAiitpJtacant]tus ; and a Review of the species 

 of the genera Amphiprion, Premnas, Pomocentrus, Gty/jhi- 

 sodon, Dascylhis, and Htliases, brought from the Suuda 

 Islands and the Moluccas. Figures are given of Osteo- 

 glossinn formosum, Amphacantlius dorsalis, corallinus, viryatus, 

 vermiculatus, Poinacentrus fasciatus, trimaculatus, Uttoralis, 

 chrysopcecilus, Glyphisodon aureus, melas, unimaculatus, 

 modestus, antjerius, biocellatus, Heliases cinerascens, Premnas 

 trifasciatus. 



Of Henric Kroyer's Danmarks Fiske, Kopeuhagen (vid. 

 last Report, p. 08), the second part of the second volume 

 has appeared. The Fish, as before, are figured in woodcut. 

 This Part contains the following species : Platessa saxlcola, 

 limandoides, Hippoglossus /m/.d-niis, Rhombus vulgaris, tnax- 

 inms, Jtlrtus, card'tna, So lea vulgaris, Cyclopterus lumpus, 

 Liparis moittagni, barbatus, Lepadogaster cornubicnsis, Salmo 

 salur, irittta, eriox and/ario. 



Towards the ichthyological Fauna of Norway a contri- 

 bution is given by v. Diiben (Om Norriges Hafs-Fauna in 

 der Ofversigt af Kongl. Yetenskaps-Akademiens Forhand- 

 liiigar 1844, pp. 13, 111). The species here given have 

 been minutely described in the beginning of the year 1845 



