144 NOTICE OF A FISH APPARENTLY UNDESCRIBED, 
Incidentally it may be here observed, that the discovery of a 
very particular Sloanea in New Guinea (S. paradisearum, F.y.M., 
Papuan Plants, I., 84) has strengthened the view, expressed by 
the writer of these lines already in 1864, that Echinocarpus 
should be subjugated to Sloanea. This opinion is also shared by 
Dr. von Szyszylowicz, who in a recent study of Tuiliacee 
(Englers’s Botanische Jahrleuecher VI., 454) likewise unites 
Echinocarpus with Sloanea, but, who, on the same occasion, 
felt inclined to refer Aristotelia Braithwaitiu, F.v.M. (Wing’s 
Southern Science Record, Aug., 1881) to Eleocarpus, not having 
seen specimens which would have demonstrated to this 
excellent investigator the intenability of that opinion. 
NOTICE OF A FISH APPARENTLY 
UNDESCRIBED, 
BY 
C.. W.. DE... VIS, Hisos iis 
Hirwerro, the shores of Western and Southern Asia have 
alone yielded those few forms of the Scorpsenida which have 
been distinguished under the general title Apistus. One species 
inhabits the Red Sea, and has been whimsically named 
israelitarum ; the other entering the Pacific is a,frequenter of 
the Indian coasts. Both have the pectoral fins developed as 
organs of flight; they agree also in having the anterior portion 
of the dorsal fin composed of fifteen spines. To these, the fish 
now brought under notice, through the instrumentality of Mr. 
R. A. Buleock—a young observer of the fauna of Moreton Bay 
—is closely allied; and, notwithstanding that it differs in two 
structural features of some importance, namely, in having but 
