393 



Brons, Bernh., Die Lofotenfischerei. in: 78. Jahresber. Naturf. Ges. Emden, 

 p. 79 — 100. 



Collins, J. W., and Hugh M. Smith, A statistical Report on the Fisheries of 

 the Gulf States, in : Bull. U. S. FishComm. Vol. XI. f. 1891. p. 93—184. 



Cope, E. D., On the Fishes obtained by the Naturalist Expedition in Rio 

 Grande do Sul. With 6 pis. in : Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Vol. 33. No. 144. 

 p. 84—108. 

 42 (17 n.) sp. ; n. g. : Asiphonichthys, Chorimycterus, Diapoma. 



Kirsch, Phil. H. , Notes on a Collection of Fishes from the Southern Tribu- 

 taries of the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee, in: Bull. U. 

 S. Fish Comm. Vol. XL f. 1891. p. 257—265. 

 9 nominal lists from different localities. 



Pisces der Adria, v. Faunen, G. Kolombatovic, supra p. 369. 



Smith, Hugh M. , Report on a Collection of Fishes from the Albemarle Re- 

 gion of North Carolina, in: Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. Vol. XI. f. 1891. 

 p. 185—200. 



45 spp. ; 3 local lists besides. 



— — Report on the Fisheries of the South Atlantic States. With 22 pis. 

 ibid. p. 267—356. 



Technical and Statistical. 



Hoffmann, C. K., Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Selachierkopfes. Mit 5 Ab- 

 bildgn. in: Anat. Anz. 9. Bd. No. 21. p. 638 — 653. 



Bei Acanthias betheiligt sich auch der 10. Somit van Wijhe's an der Bil- 

 dung des Kopfes. Die segmentalen Kopfnerven und die dorsalen Spinalnerven 

 sind paarige segmentale Ausstülpungen des Medullarrohrdaches. — Schlußbe- 

 merkungen mit Zurückweisung der Rabl'schen Kritik. 



Mayer, Paul, Über die vermeintliche Schwimmblase der Selachier. Mit 

 l Holzschn. in: Mittheil. Zool. Stat. Neapel, 11. Bd. 3.Hft. p. 475 — 478. 

 Verf. fand die vonMiklucho beschriebene Tasche nur bei Mustelus, nicht 

 aber bei Acanthias und Galeus. Außer der dorsalen Tasche finden sich zwei ven- 

 trale gleichen Baues. 



Lamotte, Frz. Frhr. , Über die Durchforschung des Meeres nach den Aallaich- 

 plätzen. V. supra p. 224. 



Die Angabe, daß der Aufsatz selbständig in Görz 1892 erschienen sei, beruht 

 auf einem Irrthum. 



Worth, S. G-., The Spawning Habits of the Shad [Clupea sapidissima], in: 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. Vol. XL Î. 1891. p. 201—206. 

 The Shad lay their eggs in the highest daily average temperature. 



Hubbard, Jesse W. , The Yolk- nucleus in Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons. 

 With 3 pis. in: Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. VoL 33. No. 144. p. 74—83. 

 H. thinks it is homologous with the meganucleus of Infusoria. It is the vege- 

 tative portion of the egg given off from the nucleus when the egg has become 

 fully differentiated as such. It is the animal part of the egg which is further con- 

 cerned wholly with the reproduction of the species. 



Cyprinodontidae, v. Poeciltidae, Th. Gill. 



Lucioperca, v. Stizostedion, Th. Gill. 



Sanders, Alfr., Researches in the Nervous System of Myxine glutinosa. (With 

 8 pis.) London, Williams & Norgate , 1894, 4». (44 p., text p. 3—22, 

 explan, of plates p. 22 — 24, list of publications p. 24 — 44.) 



Judging from the nervous system Myxine is an offshoot and is not in the main 

 phylum of the Vertebrata. It presents the only instance of the entire absence of 

 the cerebellum. There are no indications of a pineal eye, neither of an epiphysis. 

 The olfactory lobes and the glomeruli are well developed. Cerebrum and corpora 

 bigemina are small. The tubercula intermedia are large in comparison with those 



