1893.] Zoology. 671 
Auctospina 
Sebastichthys* Pteropodus Sebastomus 
"d N 
Sebastodes 
NG 
Acutomentum* Sebastosomus* 
A 
Primospina* — 
A revision of the Pacific Scorpaenide will be included in my 
“Viviparous fishes of the Pacific Coast. "—C. H. EIGENMANN and C. 
H. BEESON. 
Batrachians of British India.—The total number of Batrachians 
known at the present time from British India, including the Malay 
peninsula, comprises 147 species; of these, the Indian Museum pos- 
sesses specimens of 103 distributed as follows; Ecaudata 99, Caudata 
1, Apoda 3. (Sclater's List of Batrachians of the Indian Museum, 
1892). 
Washington and British Columbian Orinthology.—A 
resumé of the birds observed in British Columbia and Washington 
during the spring and summer 1892, is given by Mr.S. N. Rhoads in 
the Proceeds. Phila. Acad., 1893. "To the combined lists of Mr. Chap- 
man and Mr. Fannin, the author adds 21 species that came under his 
own observation, making the list of species now known from that 
region number 326. Descriptions of 11 new species observed appear 
in the Auk for January, 1893. Four specimens of a new variety 
of Parus hudsonicus were obtained in British Columbia, near Field. 
The new form, P. hudsonicus columbianus, is larger and darker than 
hudsonicus, with a much larger bill, and with the throat patch jet 
black instead of brownish-black. 
Zoological News. Hemichorda.—Prof W. E. Ritter pre- 
sents in Zoe’ a. popular study of Balanoglossus in which few new facts. 
concerning the larvz are brought out. Professor Ritter puts in a 
request for evidence ofthe existence of Balanoglossus on the Pacific 
coast. 
3Zoe iii, 187, 1892. 
