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off the American coast, northward of Capii Cod, wlici'(^ it is iKjt 

 uncommon in 200-1200 fathoms. 



We now record G. oc/ilbyi from the coast of New South Wales 

 in sliallow water (22-GG fatlioms). Into what (h'pths this fisli 

 may journey, or what uncoiijectured forms niay exist in the 

 abyssmal regions off our sliores, remains for the future to reveal 



The genus Il/jdrolagus is represented by tlie single S2:)ecies //. 

 coUiei, Bennett ; it is found only on the Pacific coast of Noi'th 

 America, and is abundant about Puget Sound and South-eastern 

 Alaska. This species swims at the surface, and is common about 

 wharfs, while there is no evidence that it descends to ver}- con- 

 siderable depths. 



Two species of Harriotta have been described, namely, H. 

 raleiffhana, Goode and Bean, from the eastern coast of North 

 America, in depths ranging from 707 to 1,081 fathoms, and H. 

 pacifica, Mitsukuri, from Japan. 



Of Callorhynchus, hitherto the only representative of the family 

 in Australian waters, two species also are known, C. antarcticus, 

 Lacep , from the Antarctic basin and the South Pacific, and C. 

 ar<jenteus, Philippi, recently described from the coast of Chili. 



In my Preliminary Report I wrote a paragraph on the errors 

 and misprints of the literature of the family (Jhimceridce, and 

 reproduce the same below. 



In " Oceanic Ichthyology," one of the most recent and preten- 

 tious publications on fishes, an extremely good figure of Chiincera 

 colliei in the " Voyage of the Blossom " has been copied, but in 

 some unaccountable way has been named Callorhynchus antarcti- 

 cus, and so printed in the table of contents, notwithstanding the 

 fact that it is correctly described in the text. By a typographical 

 error Hydrolagus appears as Ilydholagus colliei. In the description 

 of Chivioira affinis the following conflicting statements occur : — 

 "The pectorals extending to the outer axil of the ventrals." And, 

 again, " the pectoral terminating much in advance of the ventral. 



In a French edition of " Cuvier's Animal Kingdom," the fishes 

 by Valenciennes, an extraordinarj^ figure is given on pi. 113, 

 purporting to be of Chiincera monstrosa, and said to be drawn 

 from nature, the locality given being the seas of Iceland. The 

 peculiarity is that, though the figure, as a whole, represents 

 Callorhynchus, the snout lacks the characteristic appendages. 

 As Callorhynchus is a southern type, how came the artist to 

 represent this genus from a specimen taken in the seas of Iceland 1 

 Is Callorhynchus a bipolar form, or had he access to southern 

 material 1 



Lastly, an amusing misprint occurs in Macleay's " Fishes of 

 Australia." This reads: — "Ventral organs confluent into two 

 pairs of laminae in the upper jaw and into one pair in the lower." 

 The passage becomes clear when " Dental organs " is read. 



