Vertebrata. 



( 2 ) records the occurrence of the Spinous Shark [EcJiinorhinus spinosus] in New 

 Zealand waters; and ( 3 ) describes Regalecus argenteus a new species of Great 

 Kibbon-Fish stranded at Mocraki, Otago. 



III. Systematic, 

 Sub-class Palaeichthyes. 

 Order Chondropterygii. 



1. Plagiostomata. 



A. Selachoidei. 



Hilgendorf ( 2 ) has identified Leptocarcharias with Triads. 



Baird records the occurrence of Pseudotrtacis microdon at Aniagansett, N. Y. 



Jouan p 313 notes Carcharias glaucus Cuv. as observed for the first time off the 

 coast of Cherbourg. 



Stevenson notes and figures Carcharodon carcharias. 



Has we 1 1 has a note on the claspers of Heptanchus indicus. 



Day ( 3 ) read a note on a female specimen of Acanthias vulgaris devoured by 

 Isopoda. 



Parker i 2 ) records the occurrence of Echinorhinus spinosus in New Zealand 

 Waters. 



Chlamydoselachus n. Type of a new family Chlamydoselachidae for C. anguineus n. 

 Japanese Seas ; Garman p 3-1 1 pi. Cope is of opinion that this genus is identical 

 with the extinct Didymodus of the Coal-measures, and that the species should 

 therefore stand as D. anguineus; id. p 412. 



Heptranchias pectorosus n. Patagonia; Garman p 13. 



Heterodontus japonicus n. Japan ; Maclay & Macleay p 428. 



Lamna guentheri n. Kurrachee ; Murray p 349. 



B. Batoidei. 



Doderlein redescribes Rhinobatus halavi Riipp. from the Sea of Sicily. 

 Ewart ( 2 ) describes and figures Torpedo nobiliana Bonap. fusca ? n. Du- 

 nedin; Parker (*) p 283. 



Pristis woermanni n. W. - Africa ; FJSCher p 39. 



Narcine umbrosa n. Key West, Florida; Jordan ( 3 ) p 105. 



Raja australis n. Port Jackson; Macleay ( 2 j p 461 pastinaca L. is recorded by 



Jouan as new to the Sea fauna of Cherbourg. 

 Uorolophus bucculentus n. Port Jackson ; Macleay ( 4 j p 172. 



Order Gauoidei. 

 See *Pelzam on Sturgeons. 



Sub-class Teleostei. 



Order Acanthopterygii. 



Family Percidae. 



Jordan & Swain ( 5 ) give a review of the (33) species of Epinephelus and allied 

 genera known from American Waters with full descriptions of most of the species 

 examined. The authors divide E. into 6 distinct genera (or subgenera) Myctero- 

 perca, Alphestes, Promicrops, Dermatolepis, Epinephelus and Enneacentrus, and add 



