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November 4. — Accession 22517; Cat. Nos. 41568-41575: One specimen of California 

 trout, Salmo irideus : four specimens of Gila ; two specimens of Squalius, and one 

 of Catostomus, from Fort Verde. By W. L. Carpenter, Captaiu Ninth Infantry, 

 U. S. Army, Fort Whipple, Arizona (through Dr. L. Stejneger). 



November 6. — Accession 22524 ; Cat. No. 41780 : Eight specimens of Heterandria occi- 

 dentalis, from Calabasas, Arizona. By Dr. L. Stejneger. 



November 7. — Accession 22526 ; Cat. Nos. 41495-41550 : One can alcoholic specimens 

 of South American Siluroids, from Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



November 8. — Accession 22533 ; Cat. Nos. 41577-41586 : One box fresh specimens of eels, 

 large and small-eyed Anguilla, from Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. U. S. Fish 

 Commission (through V. N. Edwards). 



November 15. — Accession 22562; Cat. No. 41592: One can, containing one large, fresh 

 specimen of menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, 17 inches in length, captured of! 

 Long Branch, New Jersey, November 6, 1889, by steamer Geo. W. Humphrey. From 

 Joseph Church & Co., Tiverton, Rhode Island. 



November 19. — Accession 22571 ; Cat. Nos. 41590-41591 : Two fresh specimens of Salve- 

 linus aureolus, from Dan Hole Pond, New Hampshire. By Col. E. B. Hodge. 



November 25. — Accession 617; Pharyngeal bone of Haploidonotus grunniens. From 

 I. R. S. Nye, Pocahontas, Tennessee. (Specimen returned.) 



November 25. — Accession 22592; Cat. Nos. 41587-41589: One small bottle containing 

 Semotilus corporalis, one specimen; Phoxinus neogcuus; one specimen; Bhinich- 

 thys atronasus, one specimen. From Philip Cox, Newcastle, New Brunswick. 



December 26. — Accession 22722; Cat. No. 43079. Full set of pharyngeals of Poyonias 

 ehromis. From R. L. Garner, Mathews Court House, Virginia. 



January 23, 1890. — Accession 22807 ; Photograph of fish taken by hook and liue in 

 Smith Bay, Cerros Island, Lower California. (Photograph, 5 by 8 inches) Hetcro- 

 dontus francisvi. From Charles F. Pond, lieutenant, U. S. Navy, U. S. S. Banger, 

 Navy Yard, Mare Island, California. 



January 27.— Accession 22828. Cat. Nos. 41605-41622; Type series of fishes collected 

 by Dr. D. S. Jordan in the Yellowstone Park, .during September and October, 

 1889. In good condition. U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, District of Co- 

 lumbia. 



February 3. — Accession 22851 ; A collection of fishes from British Columbia and 

 Alaska, contained in 45 jars, 50 bottles, and 21 vials. Collected by the steamer 

 Albatross, U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, District of Columbia. 



February 3.— Accession 22852; Cat. Nos. 41624-41727: Type series of fishes collected 

 in Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, in the summer of 18&9, by Dr. D. S. Jordan aud 

 party. In good condition. U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, District of 

 Columbia. 



February 20.— Accession 23254 ; Cat. Nos. 41813-41819 : A small collection of fishes, 

 containing one new species — Algansea dugesii — from Mexico. Sent by Dr. Alfred 

 Duges, of Guanajuato, Mexico. 



March 3.— Accession 22916; Cat. No. 41834: Two salt mackerel, Scomber pneiima- 

 tophorus, caught by the schooner Alice, Capt. Jonas A. Chase, at Capo Town, 

 Africa (Table Bay). 



March 10.— Accession 22956; Cat. Nos. 41858-41926: Collection of fishes, in alcohol, 

 from San Diego Bay, Cortez Banks, andTemecula River. Seventeen new forms. 

 Carl H. and Mrs. Rosa Smith Eigenmann, Sau Diego, California. 



March 11.— Accession 22959; Cat. No. 41856: One specimen, Ostracion quadricorne, 

 caught in the harbor of El Portillo, south side of Cuba. It is called by the 

 natives " Chappin," pronounced "Chappeeu." (Toro or Chapin: see Poey, Re- 

 port Fisico Nat. de la Isla de Cuba, p. 439.) From C. H. Rockwell, Commander, 

 U. S. Navy, commanding U, S. steamer Yantic, Santiago de Cuba. 



