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Family Chromides. 



Chromis niloticus Hasselq. var. mossambicus Pets, is described by Fischer p 27 

 niloticus Hasselq. p 164 pi. 18 fig. 1, andreae Gthr. fig. 1, and simnnis Gthr. fig. 2 

 p 165 pi. 17, are redescribed aiid figured by Tristram desfontainii (Lac.) is 

 noted by Vinciguerra p 429 - - tholloni n. Ogooue ; Sauvage ( l ) p 196 pi. 5 fig. 2. 



Melanogenes microcephalus Bleek. is described and figured; id. p 196 woodcut. 



Hemichromis sacra Gthr. is described by Tristram p 168 pi. 18 fig. 2 - - schwebischi 



n.; Sauvage (') p 198 pi. 5 fig. 2. 



Order Anacanthini. 



Gill ( 7 ) questions the propriety of retaining this sub-ordera as a natural group 

 from which he excludes the families Gadopsidae and Chiasmodontidae as being- 

 true Acanthopterygii. 



Family Lycodidae. 



Ll/codes esmartii Coll. p 73, and sarsii Coll. p 78 pi. 1 figs. 3 and 4 are noted and 

 ' the latter figured by Collett (*) . 



Family Gadidae. 



Lotella maxillaris n., lat. 39 55', long. 70 28'; Bean ^ p 241. 



Physiculus fulvus n., lat. 40, long. 69 56': id. p 240. 



Lota lota L. is redescribed by Sundman pt. 4 p 1 pi. 10. 



Hypsirhynchus n. Pinnae dorso 2, Analis una. Caudales separata. Ventrales pluribus 



radiis atque eniinenti basi. Rictus adscendens. Ossa vomeris et palati laevia. 



Membraua branchiostega 7. Squamae exiguae. For hepaticus n. Straits of Messina : 



Facciola (') p 112 pi. 2. 



Family Macruridae. 



Macrurus globiceps (sp. n. Vaill. iued.) noted by Filhol p 185 fig. 2 and 484 fig. 1 



acrolepis n. Port Townsend, Washington; Bean ( 2 ) p 362. 

 Krohnius filamentosm Cocco; Extensive notes by Facciola ( 3 ). 



Family Pleuronectidae. 



Rhombus maximus is noted by Ewart ( 2 ) p 80 pi. 13. 



Platijophrys nebularis n. Key West, Florida; Jordan & Gilbert ( 2 J p 31. 



Paralichthys lithostigma nom. n. (for P. dentatus J. & G. nee Pleuronectes dentatus 



L., fide Bean) ; Jordan & Meek ( l ] p 237. 

 Achirus (Baeostoma] cornifer n. Key West, Florida ; Jordan & Gilbert ( 2 / . 



Order Lyonieri. 

 Families Eurypharyn gidae and Saccopharyngidae. 



Gill & Ryder i 1 ) give extracts from, and comparison of, the descriptions of the 

 Saccopharyugoid Fishes given by the early writers, Mitchell, Harwood, Johnson, 

 etc., and are of opinion that the family Saccopharyngidae should probably be 

 placed in the order Lyomeri (Gill, 1883), along with the Eurypharyngidae. They 

 are inclined to retract the opinion formerly expressed by Gill, and agree with 

 Gimther in considering the anterior dentigerous bones as maxillary and not pala- 



