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fish the tail appears to lengthen and increase in number of rays, 
while the relative height of the body and length of the head di- 
minishes in proportion to the total length. 
e dimensions of this fish are in Danish feet. Curiously Trachyp- 
terus, though found upon the coast of Norway, Iréland, Faroe and 
celand, has not yet occurred upon that of North America. 
The principal distinctions between the two genera are the pro- 
longation almost to the extremity of the tail, of the cul-de-sac of 
the stomach; and the greater feebleness of the skeleton and 
greater elongation of the vertebra in Regalecus. In both genera 
there are about 100 vertebrae. The vogmar has no ribs, while 
the eighth to the twenty-fourth vertebre of the King of the 
Herrings have true ribs. 
Nores on FLoripiaAn AND TEXAN FisuEs.—During a short stay 
at Pensacola and Galveston Prof. Jordan collected 129 species of 
marine fishes, of which sixteen were previously undescribed. 
There are apparently seven species of Carcharias in the waters 
of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including one which may prove 
_ to be new. The cyprinodonts taken were nine in number, includ- 
ing two new Funduli. The Spariodz are represented by ten spe- 
cies, among which is the red snapper or Pargo colorado (Lutjanus 
blacfordi) the most important food-fish of the Gulf coast. This is 
taken with hook and lines on the “ Snapper Banks,” some five to 
thirty miles off shore. It reaches a weight of about 35 pounds. 
Mullus barbatus, the famous European surmullet, was represented 
by a specimen taken from the stomach of the red snapper. This 
is the first authentic record of the occurrence of this species on 
our coast, = 
Among the new species were a Prionotus (P. scitulus), Porich- 
thys plectrodon, a Gobiesox (G. virgatulus), four blennioids, and 
two flat fishes of the genus Paralichthys. 
of Hayden’s Su 
ae wo 
nnual Report of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey, 
F. V. Hayden U. S. Geologist-in-Charge, and has been published 
(Oct. I4th, 1882) in advance of the report itself. Dr. Shufeldt’s 
work beginni 
Op beotyto cunicularia hypogea), next treats of the osteology 
~*Pter on the osteology of the Tetraonide, as here we are treated 
