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 

 zocecial characters. 



The discovery of CateniceUa in these beds is of considerable 

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

 short beads and longer internodes. 



Porina 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 Bartonian age, and may therefore 

 be called Upper Eocene. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



William Sweetland Dallas. 

 It is with deep regret, which we are sure will be shaved 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 1868 ; 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 health had been failing, and on the 

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

 and a large circle of friends. WiLLlAM Feancis. 



Description of a new Cottoid Fish, 

 By Takleton H. Bean, Ichthyologist, U. S. Eish Commission. 



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

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

 remarkable little fish whose affinities are with the Cottidce, but 

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

 Buch importance as to necessitate the formation of a new subfamily 

 to receive it. The description is given herewith. 



Subfamily Stnchirin^. 

 Cottidce with ventral fins thoracic, but remote from the gill- 



