1883. ] Zoology. 675. 
mobile. On account of the form of the teeth and the mode of their 
implantation, the author proposes to unite the genera Saccodon, 
Hemiodus, Parodon, Prochilodus, Citharinus and Cznotropus 
as a sub-family with the name of Citharinina, A number of ich- 
thyological papers by Mr. T. Gill, appear in late signatures of 
the Proceedings of the United States National Museum. The 
synonymy of the class Leptocardians is given, followed by a 
so 
Pediculate fish, with other brief articles. He discusses the rela- 
tionship of the Echeneidids which he regards as a sub-order, which 
he names the Discocephali, and states that the basis cranii is sim- 
ple. Messrs. Jordan and Gilbert also notice certain neglected 
generic names of Lacépède, and discuss the synonymy of the genus 
Bothus of Rafinesque. ature, in reporting the Proceedings 
of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, states that Mr. 
Morton has ascertained that the Australian lung-fish, Ceratodus, 
spawns in the Burnett river during the months of June, July or 
August, the spawn being deposited in a slight excavation formed 
in the bed of the river, at a depth of eight or ten feet, the male 
and female remaining in close attendance on it until hatched. Ar- 
rangements had been made by which it was hoped that a supply 
(C æleonidæ), and membranous expansions which are com- 
parable to the septa in birds.” 
26, Mr. Everett Smith closes a series of notes on 293 species of g 
Maine birds. In the same paper is noticed a flight of white peli- 
1000 
in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum con- 
tain a criticism of Seebohm’s Catalogue of Birds. Mr. R. Ridg- 
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