412 The American Xaturaliift. 



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question at issue between us ; I alleging that the articulation exists, 

 and Dr. Baur denying it. Dr. Steindacher's figures show conclusively 

 that the articulation exists, as it does in nearly all other Lacertilia, and 

 Dr. Baur has not alleged that this plate is wrong in this particular, or 

 that my tracing of it is not an exact copy. On comparing my tracing 

 with the original again, I find that it is an exact copy, and that if 

 any errors exist they are altogether irrelevant to the question at issue. 

 The separation of the parietal process from the superatemporal is shown 

 in Steindachner's plate, but it may be erroneously, as Baur alleges. 

 The suture separating the postorbital from the supratemporal in my 

 drawing may also be an error, but it represents a feature of Steindach- 

 ner's drawing, which he did not perhaps intend for a suture, although 

 it looks like it. These two points are obscure to the eye without close 

 examination, and it is probable that Baur is right as to their condition 

 in nature. They however do not discredit the accuracy of the con- 

 spicous features of the articulations of the elements with the quadrate, 

 which I find to agree with other Iguanidse. 



Dr. Baur's assumption as to what I " really believe," is not quite 

 correct, as can be easily seen by reading my previous articles. What I 

 have endeavored to show is that until the character of the paroccipital 

 (squamosal Baur) of the Pythonomorpha is explained, I hold that the 

 determination of that element as squamosal as is made by Baur, is pre- 

 mature. I am agnostic, and am open to conviction, but Dr. Baur has 

 not yet convinced me.— E. D. Cope. 



Zoological News. The Tokio Zoological Magazine, for 1895, 

 Vol. VII contains an account by E. Mitsukuri of a Japanese species of 

 Hariotta, for which he proposes the name H. pacifica. The type species 

 of this remarkable chimaeroid genus is now in the U. S. Natl. Mus. It 

 was found in deep water off the coast of Virginia and described by Goode 

 and Bean under the name H. raleighana. See Naturalist 1895 p. 375 

 Plate XIX. The Pacific form agrees with the Atlantic one in general 

 appearance, especially in the elongate muzzle and feeble claspers, but 

 differs in five essential points which are enumerated by the author. 

 The occurrence of this interesting genus in both the Atlantic and Pa- 

 cific Oceans is an interesting fact. 



Recent explorations in the Gulf of California along the coast of 

 Sinaloa have resulted in a collection of fishes, which while yielding 

 232 species, by no means exhausts the richness of that locality. The 

 collection was sent to Prof. Jordan for identification. Thirty new 

 species were found among the specimens, all of which are described 



