REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Garman’s Deep-Sea Fishes. — The most important work in ichthy- 
ology for the past year is Mr. Samuel Garman’s monumental report 
on the deep-sea fishes collected off the western equatorial coasts of 
America and off the Galapagos Islands. It is based on the specimens 
obtained by the steamer 4/da/ross in the winter of 1891, while under 
the direction of Professor Alexander Agassiz. This report contains 
an annotated list of the species obtained, 176 of them new to science, 
together with a supplementary volume of plates, in which most of 
the species are beautifully figured. The general report is preceded 
bya valuable discussion of the distribution of the deep-sea fishes, and 
it is followed by an anatomical paper on the lateral line in fishes, 
its function and significance. 
The species added to the fauna of Middle America are the following : 
Raja badia. 
Raja alia (Yucatan = R. achleyi G. 
and B., not Garman). 
Centroscyllium nigrum. 
Jsistius (rather Leius) brasiliensis 
(Q. and G.). 
Liopropoma longilepis. 
Centristhmus Signifer (new genus 
allied to Anthias). 
Pontinus furcirhinus. 
Ectreposebastes imus (new genus 
allied to Scorpaena 
Hoplostethus pacificus. 
Trachichthys mento. 
Caulolepis subulidens. 
Melamphaés mizolepis (Günther). 
Melamphaés (Plectromus) nigroful- 
VUS, 
Melamphaës maxillaris. 
Melamphaës Jrontosus. 
Gempylus thyrsitoides (Lesson) (= 
G. serpens C. an V.). 
Trichiurus nitens. 
Teuthts elegans. 
Chiasmodon subniger. 
Lophiomus spilurus. 
Lophiomus caulinaris (L. setigerus 
Gilbert; Jordan and Evermann; 
not of Wahl—a Japanese species). 
Dolopichthys allector ale genus, 
near Ceratias). 
Chaunax coloratus dype of subge- 
nus Chaunacops). 
Oncocephalus porrectus. 
Halieutopsis tumifrons (new genus, 
near Halieutzea). 
Dibranchus hystrix. 
Dibranchus scaber. 
Dibranchus asper. 
Dibranchopsis (new genus for Hali- 
eutea spongiosa Gilbert). 
Dibranchichthys nudivomer. 
Malthopsis sparsa. 
Malthopsis erinacea. 
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