NOVKMBEE 9, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



Ill 



Anas chinensis. Page 340. China. 



In the work just referred to there is a 

 reference under Anas liina Gmelin, as fol- 

 lows : Alias chinensis Osbeck, Voy. II, p. 33. 

 This is to the English edition, 1771. The 

 synonymy should be Anas Chinensis Osbeck, 

 1765 (= Anas Una Gmelin, 1788). 



Gmelin gives ' Osbeck (it. 2, p. 33)' as au- 

 thority for Anas hina; but no such name 

 occurs in the latter's book. It would there- 

 ford seem that hina is a misprint for chinen- 

 sis. 



DioMBDEA ADSCENsioNis. Page 382. As- 

 cension Isld. 



This is evidently synonymous with Sula 

 piscator {= Pelecanus jnseator Linne, 1758), 

 with which species Osbeck compares it. 



REPTILIA AND BATEACHIA. 



Testudo javanica. Page 128. Java. 



From the description this is clearly a 

 Chelone, and without doubt the same as 

 Chelone imbricata (Linne) ,1766. The latter 

 thus becomes Chelone javanieus (Osbeck), 

 1765. 



Rana chinensis. Page 244. China. 



"Without doubt a Bufo, and referable to 

 Bufo bufo (Linn6). If the Chinese and Jap- 

 anese representatives are not distinct races, 

 then Osbeck' s name would have precedence 

 over Schlegel's 5m/o bufo javanieus. 



It is well to point out here that Boulenger 

 ( Tailless Batrach. Eurl. II, 265) has erred in 

 referring Osbeek's Rana chinensis as a variety 

 of Rana esculenta Linne. Osbeck says in his 

 description, ' The body above warty,' which 

 sufficiently indicates that the species is not 

 a Rana. 



Stone (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 183, 

 1899) states that Ratia chinensis Boulenger 

 (nee Osbeck) is quite distinct from Rana 

 esculenta, in which event the former will re- 

 quire another name, which will be Rana 

 marmorata Hallowell, 1860 (teste Stone). 



Laceeta chinensis. Page 366. China. 



This lizard is probably identifiable from 



the description, which indicates that it be- 

 longs to the Geckonidse. This name has 

 been entirely overlooked by subsequent 

 writers. 



PISCES. 



Squalus oaninus. Page 102. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



A synonym of Careharodon carcharias 

 (Linne), 1758, the great blue shark. 



Balistes chinensis. Page 147. China. 



Richardson (Rep. Brit. Assoc. Ad. Sci., 

 201, 1845) refers this to the genus Mona- 

 canthus. However, in Bleecker (Atlas) and 

 in the Brit. Mus. Catal. Fishes, Bloch is 

 given as authority for the species ; it is also 

 described by Gmelin as Balistes sinensis. It 

 should stand Monaeanthus chinensis (Osbeck), 

 1765 and 1771 = Balistes sinensis Gmelin, 

 1788. 



Peeca ADSCENSIONIS. Page 388. Ascen- 

 sion Isld. 



Now Holoeentrus ascensionis (Osb. ) J. & E. 

 The date for this species should be 1765. 

 Note that the original name is adscensionis, 

 not ascensionis. 



ScoMBEE Glaucus. Page 387. Ascen- 

 sion Isld. 



Oi'iginally named Scomber adscensionis by 

 Osbeck, 1757, but in the later translations 

 1765 and 1771 called S. glaucus, perhaps in- 

 dicating it to be the same as S. glaucus 

 Linne. Jordan and Evermann suggest its 

 identity with Caranx guara. 



In addition to the foregoing fishes Osbeck 

 describes the following, whose names are 

 not to be found in recent synonymy: 



Spaeus chinensis. Page 340. China. 



Not the Sparus chinensis Lacep. 



Squalus adscensionis. Page 388. As- 

 cension Isld. 



GoBius TEOPicus. Page 392. Ascension 

 Isld. 



Sy[n]gnathus aegenteus. Page 396. 

 South Atlantic. 



