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name used by him, and the vernacular name or names given by him. 

 (4) The similar name or names from A. G. (Ancient Greek) authors, 

 chiefly Aristotle, references to the places in their works where these 

 names are found, and a gathering up of the chief things said about 

 the fish in question, especially anything which might in any way 

 help to fix the identity of the species. 



Explanatory remarks and comments are thrown in wherever in 

 each case it seems most suitable. 



2. Modern Greek names marked with an asterisk (*) were heard 

 by me in the market at Athens, sometimes elsewhere in Greece, but 

 do not occur in Apostolides' list. 



3. Names marked with a dagger (j) occur in Apostolides, but 

 were not heard by me in Greece. 



4. Names not marked by any sign were both heard by me and 

 found in Apostolides. They are not marked if the variations in 

 form are slight and insignificant, even if the forms are not identical. 



5. When the names are derived from other sources the source is 

 given in connection with the name. 



6. The references to Aristotle are taken from the Index Aris- 

 totelicus of Hermann Bonitz, and, as there, refer to the ])age, col- 

 umn and line of the quarto edition of Aristotle's works issued by 

 the Royal Academy of Prussia through Georg Reimer, Berlin. 



The references to Athenaeus, mostly from the Vllth book, are 

 given by book and section, Editio C. Tauchnitii, Otto Holtze, 

 Leipzig, 1887. 



7. Species obtained by me in Greece are marked H. The list 

 which follows is that of Apostolides, the species arranged in 

 accordance with the views of American authors and the accepted 

 rules of nomenclature applied to their names. 



Family BEANCHIOSTOMATIDJE. 



1. Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas). 



Apost. 35 (Branchiostoma laneeola or Amphioxus lanceolatus) 



Family PETROMYZONTID^. 



2. Petromyzon marinus (L). 



Apost. 34 (^Petromyzon marinus), f lap-fiv^a, Lat. lanx'peira, rock- 

 sucker, Eng. lamprey ; 'AaiJ-jivMi. is evidently of Latin and Italian 

 origin. 



