On Doliiclitliys stellatus, Sanvage. 393 



(2G a.) Catacbjsta melalornalis, sp. n. 



? . Head and tliorax pale brown ; legs whitisli tinged 

 with l)rown ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown and with 

 sli^lit dark scguicutal lines. Fore wing pale yellow-brown 

 slightly inorated with blaek ; an oblique black striga near 

 base ot' inner margin, a point in diseal fold near end of cell 

 and a small discoidal spot above angle of eell ; ti'aces of a 

 ])nnetiform postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 5, 

 then snbterminal ; a small wedge-shaped white mark from 

 costa before apex, followed by a slight whitish line defined 

 on each side by fuscous aiul slightly excurved at diseal fold ; 

 termcn with slight punctiCorni black line. ]Iind wing 

 whitish snli'used with pale brown and irrorated with fuscous; 

 some black scales at base of inner margin ; two indistinct 

 diffused antemedial lines, blacker towards inner margin ; an 

 indistinct diffused postmedial line excurved in submedian 

 interspace, ending in a black patch at tornus ; two indistinct 

 fuscous subterminal lines before middle of termen ; a narrow 

 terminal fuscous baud ; cilia fuscous with fine white line at 

 base. 



Hal). S. Br.4zil, Organ Mts., Tijuca [Wuyner), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 22 mm. 



[To be contiuued.] 



LYI. — Note on Doliichthys stellatus, Sauvage, 

 By L. S. Berg (St. Petersburg). 



In the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie/ (3) t. ii. 1874, p. 336, 

 Sauvage has described a new genus of Gobioid fish from the 

 Don at Voronesh (S. Russia), wdiich he names Doliichthys 

 stellatus. It is clearly seen from the description that we 

 have here to do with a fish described in 1787 by Pallas (Nov. 

 Acta Acad. Petr. i. p. 52, pi. vii. figs. 4:-6) from the Caspian 

 Sea under the name of Gohius macrocephalus, and regarded 

 by Eichwald (Bull. Soc. Nat. Moseou, 1838, no. 2, p. 139) as 

 a type of a distinct genus, Benthophilus. This fish is widely 

 distributed on the shores of the Caspian Sea, Black Sea, 

 and the Sea of Asov, especially at the mouths of the 

 South-Russian rivers, often entering fresh water. I myself 

 have seen it in the Dniester at Bendery. The specimeus 

 described by Sauvage belong to the subspecies, found in the 

 basin of the Black Sea, named by Kessler (' Fishes of the 

 Aralo-Caspio-Pontine Region,' St. Petersburg, 1877, pp. 40- 

 45) Benthophilus macrocephalus, variety c. 



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