ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1209 



.! Nerc Work on Medical Entomology. — In 

 a Handbook of ^ledical Entomology recently 

 published by Profs. Riley and Johanssen of 

 Cornell University (Comstock Pub. Co., Ithaca. 

 N. Y.), one is not surprised to find that those 

 noxious insects which are aquatic in the larval 

 stage, namely, the mosquitoes, black flies and 

 horse flies, are given considerable attention. The 

 portion of the text dealing with these pestifer- 

 ous aquatic insects amounts to about 70 pages 

 in a total of 256 of descriptive matter. The 

 relation of these pests to such diseases as ma- 

 laria, yellow fever and filariasis is fully dis- 

 cussed, together witli the methods of avoiding 

 and controlling outbreaks of these diseases and 

 of the insects by which they are communicated 

 to man. 



Other noxious insects, as well as mites, ticks, 

 etc.. are given the same careful treatment. The 

 descriptive matter is followed by keys for the 

 identification of these "hominoxious arthropods" 

 and by an excellent bibliography. 



The control of epidemic diseases can be sat- 

 isfactorily accomplished only with the co-opera- 

 tion of the general public, but the public is not 

 readily interested in matters which it does not 

 understand. Much has already been done to 

 familiarize the people with the dangers and the 

 possibility of control of these insect dissemin- 

 ated diseases, but there is still much to be done 

 along this line and the above-mentioned work 

 will find an important place in supplying in- 

 formation. It is so clearly and simply written 

 that one need not be an entomologist nor a 

 physician in order to appreciate the value of 

 the study of these pests and the necessity for 

 eoutrolling them. R. C. O. 



It was recognized at once as belonging to a 

 new species and a description of it has already 

 been published under the name Dermatolepis 

 marmoralus, by Dr. Osburn and ^Ir. Mowbray 

 of the Aquarium staff in Zoologica, Scientific 

 Contributions of the New York Zoological Soci- 

 ety, under date of February 2.'5. 191.5. 



The genus Dermatolepis is found only in the 

 warmer marine waters of America ; two species 

 being hitherto known on the Atlantic and one 

 on the Pacific coast. The only well known spe- 

 cies is D. inermis, which is fairly common at 

 Bermuda and is an excellent food fish. It lives 

 in holes and crevices in tlie rocks at the depth 

 of several fathoms and is very shy ; darting out 

 after its prey and returning at once to its re- 

 treat. 



We have no knowledge of the habits of the 

 new species, I), marmoratits, as only the one 

 specimen is known. The type, which was 

 twenty-four inches long and weighed nine and 

 a half pounds, has been deposited in the collec- 

 tions of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. The s]ieeific name marmoratus refers to 

 the marbled color.-ition of the l>ody. 



Other species described from the .\quarium 

 are Hippocampus hincaidi, a new sea-horse 

 from Bermuda, described by C. H. Townsend 

 and Thomas Barbour (Btlletin No. 22, p. 305, 

 .luly, 1906) and Anf/eliclithi/s townsendi, a new 

 angel fish from Key West. Florida, described by 

 ,Iohn T. Nichols and L. L. Mowbray (Bulletin 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. 33. Art. 37, pp. 581-o,H3. Oct. S, 1914.)." 



A NEW SPECIES OF FISH. 



The New York Aquarium has again exhib- 

 ited in its collections a species of fish new to 

 science. The species in question belongs to the 

 sea-bass f.-miily, Serranidae, and w.is brought to 

 the Aquarium in a small collection from Ke\' 

 W.st. Florid.i. by Mr. S. Greenlee, of the Mai- 

 lory Liner Comal. 



It was first taken by ,i Ke\' \\ est fisherman, 

 by whom it was held in captivity for some time 

 before Mr. Greenlee obtained it. .\s a result 

 it was in poor condition when it reached the 

 Aquarium and lived only twelve d.-iys after it 

 w;is received on December 26. 191 1. 



NEW" FISH PHOTOGRAPHS. 



Mr. E. R. Sanborn has recently made a series 

 of excellent photographs in the Aquarium, three 

 of which. Calico Bass, Porkfish and Nassau 

 and Black Grouper are reproduced in this Bul- 

 letin. Others will be published from time to 

 time. 



The ])hotograph of ;i school of Calico Bass 

 (Poma.ris sparoides) is the best picture that has 

 yet been made in this dark building. The de- 

 tail is sharp euougli to |)ermit the counting of 

 fin rays in most of the numerous specimens 

 shown. It is seldom that every fisli in the tank 

 can be caught clearly on one photographic plate. 



Mr. Sanborn's excellent photographs made in 

 the Zoological Park and the Aquarium have long 

 been familiar to readers of the Bulletin. 



