958 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VoL. XXXII. 
This work differs from the familiar Zeunis in that it is a descrip- 
tive catalogue, incomplete in some of the smaller or more difficult 
forms, of all the animals within a certain geographical territory, with 
analytical keys of families, genera, and, in most cases, of species as 
well. The illustrations (process cuts), though small, are in most cases 
characteristic. While intended for France, American students will 
frequently find this volume of value because of the similarity of genera 
in many instances on the two continents and their seas, K. 
Fishes New to New England. — In Science, No. 199, Mr. Hugh 
M. Smith gives notes on a number of fishes, mostly tropical in their 
general range, which have been taken in recent years at or near 
Woods Holl, Mass. The list includes the following species: Germo 
alalunga, the long-finned albacore; Chetodon ocellatus, the parche ; 
C. striatus, the Portuguese butterfly; and a new species, C. dried ; 
Ncomenis aya, the red snapper; N. apodus, the schoolmaster; W. 
analis, the mutton fish; W. griseus, the mangrove snapper; N. jocu, 
the dog snapper; Canthidermis asperrimus, a trigger fish; Diodon 
hystrix, porcupine fish; Atlennes hians, a marine gar; Trachinotus 
goodei, the black-finned pompano ; two species of half-beaks, emir- 
hamphus braziliensis and Hyporhamphus roberte; and a small file fish, 
Alutera, apparently new. There have now been reported from Woods 
Holl 222 species of fish —a larger number than from any other local- 
ity in the United States with the single exception of Key West. 
Systematic Position of the Pycnogonids. — Ihle comes to the 
rather startling conclusions! that these forms must be regarded as 
tracheates which have lost their trachea and which are direct dis- 
cordants of primitive myriapods. They have no near relationship 
with arachnids or crustaceans, and the few features in which they 
resemble these must be regarded as the results of convergence. 
They have so far departed from the myriapod stock that they must 
be regarded as a distinct class of tracheates. 
Crustacea of the Northrop Collection.?— Dr. Rankin has pub- 
lished a list of the crustacea collected by Professor and Mrs. 
Northrop in the Bahamas during the year 1890. Most of the 
species are mentioned merely by name, with references to the 
original descriptions. Four new species and one new variety are 
1 dea Centralblatt, Bd. xviii (1898), p. 603. 
2 Rankin, W. M. The Northrop Collection of Crustacea from the Bahamas, 
pala v Acad. Sci., vol. xi (1898), No. 12 
