550 General Notes. [May, 
vestita, Acanthurus zebra, Rhynchichthys nove-brittania, Harpage 
rosea (a new Berycoid genus), Salarias equipinnis, Amphiprion 
arion, Pomacentrus onyx and notatus, Nesiotes purpurescens (a new 
Labroid genus), Exocetus longibarba, Arius armiger, Herpetichthys 
cobra (a new Murenoid genus), Tetrodon insularium and levis. 
t the same meeting Mr. W. Macleay gave a list of the fishes 
captured by a beam trawl outside Port Jackson, in forty to fifty 
fathoms, and described the two new species, Rata australis and 
Lepidotrigla mulhalli. At a recent meeting of the Linnean So 
ciety of New South Wales, Baron M. Mikluko Maclay and Wm. 
Mackay contribute a paper on the Plagiostomata of the Pacific, 
and describe Heterodontus japonicus. The latter gentleman also 
describes Psilecranium coxii, a large fish of the family Cirrhitide, 
taken at Port Jackson. It is rather near to Chilodactylus.— 
Dr. T. Gill, in a communication addressed to Mature, January 10, 
1884, asks for further information respecting the Saccophary ngide, 
which he believes to be Lyomeri, with the branchio-anal portion 
much longer than the rostro-branchial, while the reverse obtains 
in Eurypharynx and Gastrostomus. ~ ae 
Repiles—_M. W. Mackay has described Ziaris boydi, a me 
from the Herbert river, Queensland, and three snakes ee 
same locality: a Tropidonotus, a Dendrophus, and Herber 
plumbeus, a new genus near Coronella. of the 
Mammals.—Baron Maclay finds the average tempas e 
of fish. M. H. Gervais has described a new species ep 
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hemisphere; M. La/andit, inhabiting the South A lie 
species from the Persian gulf, a species which he mgr? globular 
In size this form equals M. doops, but the head # arg denset. 
and the bones thicker, as well as more compact 2 
The upper profile of the head is more curved, the ipitals project | 
ic process 1S Si 
om the northera °F 
d their one b 
sternum differs complet We ce 
form from that of any other whalebone whale. we? 
many other differences in the shape of the bones 
vertebra, ribs, etc., and the pectorals are proportio 
than in M. doops. 
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