62 Miscellaneous. 



MrSCELLANEOUS. 



Note on the Genus Lophopus. 

 To the. EUtors of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History.' 



Gentlemen, — My attention lias been directed to a paper in the 'Journal 

 of the Linnean Society of London,' Zoology, no. 117, vol. xx. June 

 1887, by Stuart 0. Ridley, M.A., " On the Characters of the Genus 

 Lophopus, with a Description of a new Species from Australia." In 

 the paper Dr. E. von Lendenfeld is credited with the discovery and 

 preservation of the species described. If there is any credit due it 

 is to me, from the fact that I collected, preserved, and exhibited 

 the specimens from which the species has been described ; and the 

 first time Dr. Lendenfeld saw them was in the rooms of the Linn. 

 Soc. of New South Wales (see ' Proceedings,' vol. x. p. 760, 1885) 

 after they had been in spirit for some time. In a letter of mine 

 which appeared in the ' Ashton Eeporter,' Saturday, March 20, lS86, 

 published at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, an account 

 of the same specimens is given ; and in the ' Transactions of the 

 Manchester Microscopical Society ' for 1886 will be found an 

 account of " A Method of Killing Polyzoa " by myself, which is that 

 employed in the preservation of the species in question, xl few 

 days before Dr. Lendenfeld left Sydney I gave him a bottle con- 

 taining portions of my first gathering which were without stato- 

 blasts ; but in order to render the species complete for description 

 I made a special journey to Parramatta, in my own time and at my 

 own expense, to obtain specimens which possessed them. I found 

 them in plenty, but only in those in a dying or dead condition ; 

 and I added a small twig which was covered with the remains of 

 the animals and full of statoblasts. I may also say that the bottle 

 together with the specimens was given to Dr. Lendenfeld by me for 

 him to give them to Prof. AUman, E.P.S., for description. From 

 the above facts your readers will be able to judge who is deserving 

 of credit in this matter. 



I am, yours faithfully, 

 Australian Museum, Thomas Whitelegge. 



Sydney, New South Wales, 

 October 31, 1887. 



On the Existence of a Fish helonging to the Genus Neopercis in the 

 Atlantic. By M. L6on Vaillant. 



In dredging no. cvii. of the 'Talisman' (1883), at a depth of 

 75-90 metres, between St. Vincent and St. Antoine, in the Cape- 

 Yerd Islands, a fish was obtained of some interest as a matter of 

 geographical distribution. It belongs to the family Trachinidse and 

 to the genus Percis, or to that division of the genus named Neopercis 

 by Sleindachner. 



