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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



EVERMANN, Barton W., and KEN- 

 DALL, William (!. Description of a 

 new species of I'ipcHsh {Sij^hostoma 

 scoreUi) from Corpus Christi, Texas. 



T'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., win, No. 1043, Apr. 



15, 1896, pp. 113-115. 



Ill this paper a full description of a pipefish 



allied to S. affine of Giinther is given, with 



notes on specimens obtained in Florida waters. 



FOX, William J. Synopsis of the Bem- 

 bicini of Boreal America. 



Prue. Acad. Xat. .Sci. P)iila.,1895, pp. 351- 

 374. 

 The author recognizes live genera in this 

 tribe, and gives synoptical tables for distin- 

 guishing the genera and species belonging to 

 each found in our fauna. Two new species, 

 Monediila teimicornis and M. u.iitata, were dis- 

 covered in the Museum material sent to liim. 



Synopsis of the North American spe- 

 cies of Gorytes, Latr. 



Proc.Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,1895, pp. 517- 

 539. 

 This is a brief synopsis, in tabular form, of 

 our species of Oorytes, with description.s of 

 some new species. Mr. Fox discovered three 

 new species in the Museum material transmit- 

 ted to him. 



GILL, Theodore. Notes on Orectoloius 

 or Crossorhinns, a genns of Sharlcs. 



Proc. JJ. 8. Nat. Mus., xviii. No. 1057, Apr. 

 15, 1896, pp. 211, 212. 



Notes on the fishes of the genus Cha- 



racinus. • 



Proc. 77. iS'. Nat. Mus., xvni, No. 1058, Apr. 

 15, 1896, pp. 213-215. 



On the pro})er name of the Gunnels 



or Butter-fishes. 



Proc. JJ. /S'. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. 1048, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 147-151. 



The differential characters of the 



Syngnathid and Hippocampid fishes. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvin, No. 1049, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 153-159. 



Notes on the synonymy of thti Tor- 



pedinidfe or Narcobatidw. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. 1050, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 161-165. 



The families of the Synentognathous 



iishes and their nomenclature. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., XVlll, No. 1051, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 167-178. 



On the application of the name 



Teiithis to a genus of fishes. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvili, No. 1052, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 179-189. 



GILL, I'll KOI >ORK — Continued. 



Notes on the nomenclature of Scy)n- 

 nus or Scymnorhinns, ageuus of Sharks. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xvili, No. 1053, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 191-193. 



Notes on the genus Cephaleiitheriis of 



Rafinesque, and other rays with aber- 

 rant pectoral fins {Propter yyia and 

 Hieroptera). 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvin,No. 1054, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 195-198. 



Notes on Characinoid fishes with 



ctenoid scales, with a description of a 

 new Pnecb'ogaster. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus , xvin, No. 1055, Apr. 

 23, J896, pp. 199-203. 



The differential characters of Char- 

 acinoid and Erythrinoid fishes. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus.. xviii, No. 1056, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 205-209. 



The nomenclature of Ixachicentron or 



Elacaie, a genus of Acanthopterygian 

 fishes. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. 1059, Apr. 

 23, 1896. pp. 217-219. 



Note on the nomenclature of the 



Pcecilioid fishes. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. lOGO, 

 Apr. 23, 1896, pp. 221-224. 



The nomenclature of the fishes of 



the Characinoid genus Tetragonopterus. 

 Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus.. XVlIl, No. 1061, Apr. 



23, 1896, pp. 225-227. 



Note on Plectroplltes and Hypoplec- 



trodes, genera of Serranoid fishes. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvin. No. 1082, June 



24, 1896, pp. 567, 568. 



GOES, Axel. Reports on the dredging 

 operations off" the west coast of Cen- 

 tral America to the Galapagos, to the 

 west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf 

 (if California, in charge of Alexander 

 Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer Albatross, during 

 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, 

 U. S. N., commanding. XX. — The 

 Foraminifera. 



Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., xxix. No. 1, Mar., 

 1896, pp. 1-103, pis. i-ix and chart. 

 To facilitate comparison of the Foraminifera 

 from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama, Dr. 

 Goes has included the results of an examina- 

 tion of a .series of soundings collected by the 

 V. S. Coast Survey steamer Blake and the U. S. 



