42 NATURAL HISTORY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 



mens, one of which proves to be Notothema pnrpuricepsj and the other 

 (probably) JSFototheniatesselata, Rich., hitherto reported from the Falkland 

 Islands. Some of the dorsal rays having been injured in transportation, 

 the diagnosis is not positive.* 



The sealers reported that at times they had caught a fish of consider- 

 able size, '• like a torn cod ", at the outer edges of the kelp-beds; but state 

 that fish are never very plentiful. None were found in the fresh-water 

 streams. 



A single specimen each of a species of Gohiesox and CUnus was 

 brought from Table Bay, South Africa, having been captured on the 

 shore. 



MOLLUSKS. 



By W. H. Dall, Smithsonian Institution. 



CEPHALOPODA. 



Octopus ? 



Beaks of a cephalopod, perhaps an Octopus, were discovered by Dr. 

 Kidder in the stomachs of sea-birds. Also an Octopus, dead on the 

 beach, after a storm, in too imperfect a condition for identification. 



GASTEROPODA. 



RISSOIDJE. 

 Genus EATONIELLA, Dall. 



Eatonia, E. A. Smith, Aun. Mag. N. Hist, xvi, ser. iv, July, 1875, 70 ; (not Eatonia, Jas. 

 Hall, 10th Rep. N. Y. State Univ. 90, 1857 ; Pal. N. Y. iii, 432, 1858.) 



The name Eatonia being preoccupied, as above, by Hall for a genus 

 of brachiopods, I have substituted a modified form of it which does not 

 appear to have been used. This genus is practically a thin, smooth 

 Eissoma, as far as the shell goes, apparently bearing much the same 

 relation to Bissoina that Cingula docs to Eissoa. 



EATONIELLA KERGUELENENSIS. 

 Eatonia kerguelenensis, E. A. Smith, 1. c. 70. 

 Mus. No. 11898. 



The specimens, five in number, collected by Dr. Kidder at low-water 



*Gin, Synops. Nototheuioids, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1861, 591.— Richardson, 

 Ichthyology of the Erebua and Terror, 5. — Giinther, Cat. Acanth. Fishes, ii, 2G0. 



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