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Fishes in Catesby's Natural History of Carolina , Florida , and Bahama Islands ; 

 ( 6 ) a list of 26 species with notes; ( to ) a list of 35 species which should in his 

 opinion be dropped from the lists of species inhabiting the waters of North Ame- 

 rica north of the Tropic of Cancer ; ( 5 ) a description of a new species Gobiosoma 

 histrio from Guaymas , Mexico , and notes on other fish from the same locality ; 

 ( s ) descriptions of 4 new species of Poecilichthys in the United States National 

 Museum. Jordan & Gilbert give (*) a Review of the genus Calamus; ( 2 ) descrip- 

 tions of 10 new species of Fish from Key West, Florida; ( 3 ) notes on Caranx 

 ruber and C. bartholomaei ; ( 4 ) a description of Calamus proridens, from Key West 

 and ( 5 ) of Sciaena sciera from Panama and Mazatlan, both new species. Jordan 

 & Meek (*) give a list of 16 species of Fishes observed in Saint John's River, 

 Jacksonville, Florida, and propose the name Paralichthys lethostlgma for P. dentatus 

 J. & G. (nee Linn.) fide Bean; ( 2 ) describe 4 new species of Cyprinidae in the 

 United States Nat. Mus. ; and ( 3 ) describe Zygonectis zonifer, a new species from 

 Nashville. Jordan & Swain (*) describe 5 new species of Scaroid Fishes from 

 Havana and Key West making remarks on other species from the same locality 

 and ( 2 ) give notes on 41 species collected by Jordan at Cedar Keys, Florida. They 

 also have published reviews of the American species of ( 3 ) Marine Mugilidae, ( 4 ) 

 of Haemulon, ( 5 ) of Epinephelus and related genera, and ( 6 ) of Lutjaninae and 

 Hoplopagrinae. Meek ( l ) has written a note on the Cuban Eel (Anguilla cubana] 

 .and reviewed the American species of the genus Synodus. Meek & GflSS have 

 reviewed the genera ( 2 ) Hemirhamphus and ( J ) Trachynotus, Meek & Newland the 

 American species of (*) Sphyraena and ( 2 ) Scomberomorus ; and Meek & Hoffman 

 the American species of Teuthis. Merriam remarks on the ( n ) most important food 

 fishes of Lake Champlain. Rooseveit ( ! and 2 ) has published 2 volumes on sport 

 in the Northern States and British Provinces. Smiley records the occurrence of 

 the Black Grouper or Jew-Fish (Epinephelus nigritus] off Block Island. Swain 

 & Meek ('j describe a New Pipe-Fish , Siphostoma mckayi , from Key West, 

 Florida, and give notes on other species from the same locality, also ( 2 ) on a 

 collection of Anchovies from Havana and Key West and an account of Stolephorus 

 eurystole a new species from Wood's Holl, Mass. Thominot describes a new genus 

 and species, Rhodeoides vaillanti, from Magdalena River, Bolivia, referred to the 

 family Cypriuodontidae. Van Mater notes the occurrence of Balistes vetula on the 

 New Jersey Coast. 



e. Australia and Polynesia. 



De Vis (') has continued to describe many more genera and species supposed to 

 be new, of these the parts cited above contains no less than 4 genera and 90 

 species. The same author has also contributed ( 2 ) to the fauna of the South Seas 

 but contents himself with describing only 3 genera and 29 species as new in the 

 present contribution. Giinther in the Report on the Collections made by the Alert 

 describes 4 species as new. Hector ( l ) gives notes on the Ichthyology of New 

 Zealand, in which he describes a new species of Scaroid, Cymoleutes sandeyeri] and 

 ( 2 ) writes on the fisheries of this country and gives a list of 47 species of fish 

 commonly met within the Market. Johnston notices some recent additions to the 

 Fish of Tasmania and describes Olistherops bwvnii as new. Maclay & Macleay 

 publish their second contribution to the Plagiostomata of the Pacific, and describe 

 the Japanese Heterodontus as a distinct species under the name H.japonicus. 

 Macleay (*) adds a number of known species to his printed Catalogue; two are 

 described as new ; he also ( 2 ) describes Lepidotrigla mulhalli n. and Raja australis n. 

 as the results of his Trawl Fishing outside Port Jackson and (!) a new genus of 

 Cirrhitidae. Parker (M describes a Torpedo (T.fusca sp. n. ?) from Dunedin ; 



