Mr. F. Day on the Bib and Poor- Cod. 151 



" Common on Murree ; fairly common on Thundiani." — 

 J. W. F. 



63. Spindasis hypargyros. 



Spindasis hypargyros, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 369. n. 55, 

 pi. XXXV. fig. 3. 



Kliairabacl, 18th April ; Futch Khan's bungalow, Kooteer, 

 Chittar Pahar, 2000-3000 feet, 23rd April; Campbellpore, 

 2nd and 31st May, 2nd June, and 23rd July, 1886. 



" Common generally in the neighbourhood of Campbell- 

 pore in July 1885 and April 1886 ; the specimens taken 

 April 1886 were, as a rule, smaller than those of July 1885." 

 —J. W. Y. 



The largest specimen sent to us by Major Yerbury in 1886 

 and taken that year measures 39 millim. in expanse, the 

 smallest (a very dark little female) only 25 millim. ; those 

 taken and forwarded in 1885 measured from 35-38 millim. : 

 the really gigantic example sent in 1886 was taken in May, 

 and there was exactly one month between its capture and that 

 of the smallest one ; therefore no supposition as to the large 

 and small specimens being dry- or wet-season forms or 

 seasonal forms of any kind need be suggested. 



[To be continued.] 



XVII. — On the Bib (Gadus luscus) and Poor-Cod 

 (Gr. minutus). By Feancis Day, CLE., F.L.S., &c. 



In June 1886 Professor M'Intosh, in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., subscribed to the view that the poor- or power-cod 

 was the young state of the bib. As I have now fresh mate- 

 rial to investigate, and as it does not confirm this view, I 

 must ask for a small space in order to review what have 

 been the published opinions of British ichthyologists on this 

 point for the last two centuries, as well as to briefly describe 

 some fresh specimens which I cannot help thinking are opposed 

 to this novel classification. 



Willugliby, in his ' Historia Piscium,' 1686, p. 169, ad- 

 verted to the bib, or blinds of Cornwall, Asellus luscus. He 

 likewise, at p. 171, enumerated as another species ^^ Asellus 

 mollis minor seu asellus omnium minimus^^ and which latter 

 he referred to "Anthice secunda species, Rondel. Gesn. 64. 

 An Merlangus Bellonii ? " But there is no occasion to allude 

 to all the ancient authors who have similarly held that tlie 

 bib and poor-cod are distinct species, as the various references 

 are given in Gmelin's edition of Linnaeus, where the former 



