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Class Pisces. — For information on the fishes of Australia reference 

 must he made to the ichthyological portion of the (*) " Zoology of the 

 Erehus and Terror," by Sir John Richardson, and to the same author's 

 papers on Australian fishes in the " Annals and Magazines of Natural 

 History," 1842-1843, and "Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London," 1839-1840. Whilst Gunther's Catalogue 

 (*) of the Fishes of the British Museum, complete in eight volumes, is 

 absolutely indispensable to any one engaged in the study of fishes ; and 

 no ichthyologist should be without " Cuvier's and Valencienne's His- 

 toire Naturelle des Poissons." 



The Count F. de Castlenau has in the last few years published in the 

 " Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria, 

 1872," several papers on the fishes of the Melbourne Fishmarket and of 

 other parts of Southern Australia, which include a complete synopsis of 

 the known Australian species. 



It may be of interest to know that the fishes of Port Darwin have 

 recently undergone critical examination at the hands of Mr. W. Macleay 

 (Proc. Linnean Soc. N. S. Wales, 1878). One hundred and twelve 

 species are cataloged, 21 of which are described as new. Frequent refe- 

 rence is made to Dr. Bleeker's " Atlas Ichthylogique des Ind. Or. Nederl." 



Sub-Kingdom Mollusca. — In the department of Marine Concho- 

 logy we have a good foundation to work upon in the " Lists of all the 

 known species of marine mollusca of the province of South Australia," 

 by G. F. Angas, which are contained in the Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 

 for the year, 1865. The number of species therein recorded is :-— -Cephalo- 

 poda, 2 ; Branchiogastropoda, 229 ; Conchifera, 96 ; Brachiopoda, 1. 

 Seventy-eight of the species were unknown to science till described from 

 Mr. Angas's specimens, during the eighteen months preceding the publi- 

 cation of the ' Lists' by Messrs. H. & A. Adams, H. Crosse, and 

 himself. 



Such are the results of Mr. Angas's indefatigable exertions during a 

 residence of some years in this province ; and because nearly every 

 species mentioned had been collected by him, the catalogue is that of the 

 bona fide molluscan inhabitants of our waters. Though Mr. Angas still 

 pays considerable attention to Australian conchology ; yet he has not 

 published anything further in continuation of the above-mentioned 

 papers, excepting that of correcting the nomenclature of a few species 

 in papers on the molluscan fauna of New South Wales, published in 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, ranging from 1867 to 1877, and adding three new forms 



