118 Miscellaneous. 



Several cases are mentioned in -which there is great difference of 

 zoarial shape, and also some in which there is great range in the 

 zooecial characters. 



The discovery of Catenicelki in these beds is of considerable 

 importance, which is enhanced by one of the species having both 

 short beads and longer internodes. 



Forina coronata and Lepralia syringopora both have a closure, 

 formed by a plate with a tubule in the centre, a structure supposed 

 to be exclusively characteristic of the Cyclostomata. 



The position of the beds has been established by Suess, Bayan, 

 Hebert, and Munier-Chalmas, of JJartonian age, and may therefore 

 bo called Upper Eocene. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



William Sweetland Dallas. 

 It is with deep regret, which we are sure will be shared by 

 our readers, that the name of one who has for so many years 

 taken a most active part in the conducting of this Magazine 

 disappears from the titlepage. Our dear friend became one 

 of the Editors in 18G8 ; but long before this he had rendered 

 the greatest service in bringing to the knowledge of British 

 Naturalists the most important researches of Foreign investi- 

 gators. 



For some time past his Iiealth had been failing, and on the 

 29th of May he passed away, to the sad grief of his family 

 and a lar^-e circle of friends. William Francis. 



Description of a new Cottoid Fish. 

 By Tarleton H. Bean, Ichthyologist, U. S. Fish Commission. 



On the 27th of September, 1888, the U. S. Fieh Commission 

 steamer ' Albatross' obtained in Barclay Sound, British Columbia, a 

 remarkable httle fish whose affinities arc with the Cotti<l<r, but 

 dificriug from all the other members of the family in characters of 

 such importance as to necessitate the formati'>n of a new subfamily 

 to receive it. The description is given herewith. 



Subfamily S y x c h i r i x .-£. 

 Cotfi'/ip witli ventral fins thoracic, but remote from the gill- 



