86 General Notes. [Jan, 
Springs Counties; Planorbis trivolvis in Carroll and Washington 
Counties; and P. dicarinatus in Carroll and Hot Springs Counties; 
Ancylus tardus in Carroll, Benton, and Washington Counties ; 
Campolema ponderosa Say, in Jackson County, coarctata Lea, in 
_ Carroll and Hot Springs Counties; Spherium transversum and 
Pisidium (?) in Carroll County. 
Pleurocera subulare Lea. In White River and King’s River, 
in Carroll County, the latter being much the larger. Two or 
three species from Ouchita River, Hot Springs County, not yet 
identified 
Gontobasis, Specimens of what have been identified as pal- 
idula were very plenty in White and King’s River, in Carroll 
County, and what have been identified as saffordi in Washington 
and Hot Springs Counties. 
I have some Unionide from three counties, but will fot at- 
tempt now to make a list of what may be found in the State.— 
F. A. Sampson, Sedalia, Mo. 
The Characteristics and Relations of the Ribbon-Fishes.— 
order seems well merited. I doubt very much whether the 
Stylephoride belongs anywhere near the group; it is a pity 
the genus cannot be re-examined. Another point has occurred 
to me. I am half inclined to think that the Heterosomatous 
=~ fishes may have branched off from the original stock, or progeni- 
Bee Of the Taæniosomous fhet T slialt investigate the subject 
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