Besume of Becent Scientific Publications. 441 



Owen in 1859. The new genus is distinguished by the fact that 

 the usual angular ridge between the upper surface of the skull 

 and face is wanting, and the two areas which commonly meet at 

 an angle graduate into each other in this animal by a smooth, 

 rounded transition ; secondly, the palate has the vomer elevated 

 in front of the palato-nares and the palatine bones at their sides 

 so as to form three prominent tubercles ; thirdly, the head 

 appears to be much more compressed from side to side than is 

 usual in Ptychognathus, giving the animals a table-headed 

 appearance between the orbits. A full description of the 

 unique specimen is given, illustrated by three woodcuts of the 

 three aspects of the skull. 



PISCES. 



Boulanger, G. A. " The Fiat-Fishes of Cape Colony." Marine 

 Investigations in South Africa, No. 1. 1898. 



Mr. Boulanger gives descriptions of the five kinds of Fiat- 

 Fishes (Pleuronectidce) hitherto found on the South African 

 coasts, and of a sixth recently obtained by Dr. Gilchrist in False 

 Bay. The six species are as follows : Arnoglossus capensis, sp. 

 nov., Boul. ; Solea bleekeri, Boul. ; Archirus capensis, Kaup ; 

 Synaptnra microlepis, Bleek. ; Synaptura pectoralis, Kaup ; and 

 Cynoglossus capensis, Kaup. 



This paper is the first of a series to be based on collections 

 and investigations into the Marine Fauna of the Colony under- 

 taken by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist, and is published by the 

 Agricultural Department. 



W. L. S. 



TUNICATA. 



Sluiter, Dr. C. Ph. " Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Fauna von 

 Siid-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Eeise von Prof. Max Weber, 

 im Jahre 1894. II. Tunicaten von Siid-Afrika." Zoolog. Jahrb. 

 Abthlg. fur Syst., xi., part 1, pp. 1-64 (7 plates). 



Thirty-two species of Ascidians collected by Professor Weber 

 during his stay in South Africa in 1894 are described by Dr. 

 Sluiter. No less than 28 of these species are considered to be 

 new, and of these coloured plates are given. Eight of the new 



