AHL, 1787 45 



XXX. AHL, De Murcena et Ophichtho, 1787. 



Jonas Nicholas Ahl. 



Ophichthus Ahl, 5 ; type Mur^na ophis L., as restricted. 

 Unquestioned. 



XXXI. ASCANIUS, Beretning urn Silde-Tusten : Dansk. Selsk. 1788. 



P. ASCANIUS 



Regalecus Ascanius, III, 419; type Ophidium glesne Ascanius. 



Other dates have been quoted, for example "Icones," 1772, a series of plates of 

 objects in nature. This may not be the oldest. 



XXXII. BLOCH, Charactere und Beschreibung des Geschlechts der 

 Papageyfische, Callyodon : Abhandlungen Bohmischer Gesell- 

 schaft, IV, 1788. 



Mark Elieser Bloch. 



Callyodon Bloch, 242; type (presumably) Scarus croicensis Bloch. 



Not seen by us. 



XXXIII. BLOCH, Naturgeschichte der Ausldndischen Fische, III, 1788. 



Gymnetrus Bloch, III, i ; type Gymnetrus hawkeni Bloch. 

 A synonym of Regalecus. 



XXXIV. BROWNE, Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, Second 



Edition, 1789. 

 Patrick Browne, M. D. 



Originally published in 1756, reprinted in 1789, with a table showing 

 the Linnaean equivalents of species named, and perhaps other revisions. 

 No changes have been noted in the systematic part. In the original edi- 

 tion of 1756, as in later editions, the author refers to the works of Artedi 

 and Gronow, with both of whom he was familiar. His recognition of 

 genus as a technical term and not as a mere Latin noun is unmistakable. 

 Browne adopts various genera of Artedi (later accepted by Linnasus), 

 and to these he adds twelve new genera of his own. The species are 



