554 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



thopterygii, 36 Malacopterygii abdominales, 23 Malacop- 

 terygii jugulares, 6 Malacopterygii apodes, 3 Lophobranchii, 

 19 Plectognathi: 2 Sturgeons, 17 Plagiostomi, and 5 Cyclo- 

 stomi. 



Under the title of " Zur Kenntiiiss des Wirbelthier- 

 Skelettes" (towards theknowleclge of the Vertebrate Skeleton), 

 by Bemhard Carl Br^lil, the first half of the first division, 

 with the special title of Die Methode des Osteologischen 

 Details, dargestellt am Karpfen-skelette, Wien, 1845, 4, has 

 appeared. This Part contains twenty-nine sheets of letter- 

 press, thirteen tables, and 3 lithographic plates. The three 

 remaining Parts will not relate especially to Ichthyology. 



DIPNOI. 



Peters has sent from Quellimana the description and a 

 specimen of a fish allied to Lepidosiren annectens. 



The pectoral and abdominal fins consist, besides an articulated ray, of 

 cartilaginous rays, which are attached to the principal ray, and constitute a 

 vane upon it. Nasal openings as in Lepidosiren pamdoxa, as is also the 

 labial cartilage. Three external branchial cirri. Should this fish be con- 

 sidered geuerically distinct from Lepidosiren annectens, the author gives it 

 the name of Rhinocryptis (rinphibiit ; in case of its being identical with L. 

 annectem and geuerically distinct from L. paradoxus, Owen's name, Protop- 

 Av/'.v, must be again adopted. (Reports of the Berlin Academy, 1844, 

 p. 411.) 



TELEOSTEI. 



ACANTHOPTEUI. Serranus canimts, Valenc. Cauar., differs from S. giyas 

 in the truncated caudal fin. D. 11, 15 ; A. 3, 8. Brown. 



S. eiiHii-giiuttus (id. ib.), with an incision above the angle of the praoper- 

 culum ; setiform teeth only in the centre of the upper jaw. D. 11, 15 ; A. 

 3, 11. Large brown clouded spot on the back. Scales on the upper jaw. 



TJranoscopus info, Val. Canar. The head is shorter than in U. sealer ; it 

 is contained 4| times in the whole length; 70 scales occur in a longitudinal 

 row. D. 4, 15 ; A. 14. 



/>'/ -ryx borealis, Diiben (1. c.), (formerly regarded by the author as a new 



