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species without teeth on the tongue. 
he Cuvieran section of “ Percoids a Joues cuuirassés” is retained as & 
ed are valid, but the characters given to them are vague and will require 
revision after a comparative study of the foreign genera. 
The family called Heterolepidze had been previously named by Swain- 
son Chiride, and that name should have been retained, as well on account 
of its priority, as its consonance with the terminology of the other 
families. 
In the family of Cottoids, the species are distributed into ten genera, all 
of which appear to be founded on good characters, but the names of some 
of which are objectionable. 
Among the Salmonoids, the three genera of Valenciennes, Salmo, Fa- 
rio and Salar are accepted, but we notice that Dr. Girard has nam 
all the new species ibes as belonging to those genera, Salmo— 
rd. MSS.” in the synonymical lists of the species. 
In the family of Clupeoids, the modifications of Valenciennes have not 
been adopted, and the genus Hyodon is interposed between Meletia Val. 
and Engraulis. 
1e genus Anarrhichthys of Ayres is adopted; its only species is called 
Anarrhichthys felis Girard. To this name we desire to draw the atten- 
tion of our readers, as an important question of nomenclature is involved. 
n the “ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 
phia” for 1854, Dr. Girard mentions a fish which he calls Anarrhicas 
Selis, and observes that two large specimens were received in such a preca 
rious state of preservation that there was no probability of keeping them, 
lies, Heterolepide, Cottida, Scorpenide. erhaps the families so indica- 
t 
my, gave a full description of a species which he referred to a new genus 
and called Anarrhichthys ocellatus, which was chiefly distinguished from 
Anarrhicas by its anguilliform body, and the union of the dorsal, caudal, 
and anal fins. This is the species that Dr. Girard has claimed as his own 
Anarrhicas felis. : 
To this reference we would remark that as Anarrhicas has by all 
modern naturalists, been restricted to such species as had the dorsal and 
anal fins separa rom the caudal, we would infer that any species 
placed without comment in the genus would have those characters. UT 
Girard’s name of Anorrhicas felis was not only without any description 
. 
whatever and therefore not established, but a statement by implication 
was made that the species possessed the stout body and fins of Anarrhicas, 
and was consequently in direct opposition to the characters of Anarrhich- 
thys ocellatus. Such being the case, Dr. Girard’s name cannot be adopted, 
and that of Ayres must be retained. 
