672 (Aug. 15, 
PSENES. 
Synonymy. 
Psenes, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 9, p. 259. 
Cubiceps, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 82, 1843. 
Atimostoma, Smith, Illust. Zool. 8. Africa Fishes. 
Navarchus, Filippi and Verany, Mem. Acad. Sci. Torin. (2), t. 18. 
Trachelocirrhus, Dowmet, Revue et Mag. de Zool., t. 15, p. 212, 425, ete., 
1863, 
Cubiceps, Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 388, 1860. 
Psenes, Ginther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 494, 1860. 
These synonyms are given chiefly on the authority of Dr. Liitken 
(Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. (5), Nat. og Math. Afd., v. 12, pt. 6, pp. 518, 601). 
The genus named Schedophilopsis by Dr. Steindachner* under the sup- 
position that it was nearly related to Schedophilus, has considerable super- 
ficial likeness to that genus, but apparently does not belong to the same 
family, and had received the slightly prior name Jcostews. It is the repre- 
sentative of a peculiar family, Zcostedd@, in Jordan and Gilbert's Synopsis 
(p. 619). 
Stated Meeting, Auy. 15, 1884. 
Present, 2 members. 
An acceptance of membership was received from Dr. W. W. 
Keen, dated Philadelphia, July 19th, 1884. 
Letters of acknowledgement were received from the New 
Bedford Library; Yale College; University of the City of 
New York and Prof. J. J. Stevenson; U.S. Naval Institute ; 
Library of Congress; United States Surgeon-General’s Office ; 
United States Naval Observatory; United States Geological 
Survey, and the Chicago Historical Society (all for No. 115). 
Donations to the Library were received from the Hgyptian 
Institute; the Department of Mines, Melbourne; the Geologi- 
sal Survey of India; the Netherland Archives; the Royal So- 
ciety of Northern Antiquaries; the Geological Society of Switz- 
*Schedophilopsis = Schedophilopsis Steindachner, Anzeiger Math. Nat, cl R. 
Akad. Wissensch,. zu Wien,, 1881, p. 100 (S. spinosis), 1881. 
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