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employed. This soon wears out. I have so ei Raa oy 
draughtsman’s tracing cloth in its place. This s indefi- 
nitely, is just as smooth, and is much to be Biaitintago for 
these purposes. In the assay laboratory, paper, bese — mix- 
ing the weighed ores with the fluxes, soon wears o Here, 
also, I would suggest the use of tracing clot 
Sabkitaddey N. Y. Gas Light Co., New York, August, 1871. 
Art. XL.—A Preliminary Catalogue of the Reptiles, Fishes and 
Leptocardians of the Bermudas, with descriptions of four species 
of Fishes believed to be new ; by G. BRowN GOODE. 
In a previous paper* I ih Sed seventy-four species of 
fishes collected in the Bermudas in 1872. ‘Another visit to 
these islands pune the past winter ho enabled me, with the 
codperation of Mr. J. Matthew Jones, who kindly allowed me 
the use of his collections and note books, to increase the num- 
ber to one hundred and sixty-three. these one hundred 
and forty-eight have been sufficiently studied to enable me to 
give their names in this preliminary list. ope at an early 
day to discuss the fishes of the Bermudas in a more extended 
paper. Since there is a peculiar interest in the chorological 
relations of the members of an insular fauna, I have in a gen- 
ral way designated the distribution of each species by the use 
of letters. W. indicates the West Indian province, U. the east- 
ern coast of the United States north of Georgia, E. the Eastern 
Atlantic, including Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Med- 
iterranean, and P. the Indo-Pacific waters. These however do 
not show faunal relations opp oa since in this way it is 
impossible to distinguish those species which are resident in 
any particular eee from mere stragglers. Those species 
which are pecu - to Bermuda are marked ‘“ B.” and are eight 
in number; tw ce these, with Carassius auratus, introduced, 
occupy the ined locked brackish marshes. Two species, Huci- 
nostomus Lefroyi and Haliperca phoebe, occur only in Bermuda 
and Cuba. The Bermudian fauna shares with the West Indies 
ing 
number of others have their centers of distribution in that 
tegion, individuals having made their way in summer to the 
* Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas, based chiefly upon the collections 
of the United ted States National Museum. By G. Brown Goode, Assistant ae 
v8. National Museum. (Bull etin U. S. Nat, Mus., No. 5.) Washington: Go 
ernment Printing Office. 82 pp. 8vo. 1876. 
Am, Jour. shatitcngas Serigs, Vou. XIV, No. 82.—Ocr., 1877. 
