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on which he laid so much stress in 1849 (vide supra), are not even 

 mentioned in his excellent description. In any case it shows that 

 Bleeker was not able to separate the atlantic and the indo-pacific 

 species. 



Sphyraena agam Rüppell from the Red Sea, as described by Klun- 

 zinger (Fische des Rothen Meeres I, 1884, p. 128), most probably be- 

 longs to S. picuda. The range of this species therefore reaches from 

 the Red Sea and Madagascar to the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands 

 in the Indie and Pacific, and from Brazil to the Bermuda Islands in the 

 West Atlantic. 



4. Some remarks about Hemirhamphus erythrorhynchus Lesueur 

 (Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. II, 1821, p. 137). 



Bleeker mentions this fish three times (Journ. Ind. Arch. Ill (1848) 

 1849, p. 67 & 68; Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II, 1851, p. 214; Act. 

 Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII,' 1860, 13de bijdr. Celebes, p. 47) each time 

 from Makassar, but in his later publications as well as in the „Atlas 

 Ichthyologique" no mention whatever is made of this species, which is 

 ranged amongst the doubtful species by Günther and has been — with 

 a query — very briefly and unsufficiently described by Kner (Fische 

 Novara Exp. 1865—1867, p. 324) from Ceylon. We are at a loss which 

 species was meant by Bleeker. Lesueur has described a variety of 

 his erythrorhynchus too (1. c ), and this variety has been united by Cu- 

 vier & Valenciennes (Hist. Nat. Poissons XIX, 1846, p. 35) with 

 H. dussumieri (not with H. gaimardi as the authors themself state by 

 mistake on p. 41). It is thus possible that Bleeker meant H. Dussïi- 

 mieri by his erythrorhynchus. 



We have examined the specimens mentioned above and described by 

 Kner as H. erythorhynchus Lesson?. They seem to us to belong to H. 

 xanthopterin C. V. as described by Day. 



5. On Gagata schmidti (Yolz). 



One of us has had lately the opportunity of studying some fishes in 

 the Natural History Museum of Vienna. Among the fishes examined, 

 was the type of Callomystax Schmidti, a Silurid described by Yolz 

 (Revue Suisse de Zool. XII, 1904, p. 470) from Sumatra, and inserted 

 in our „Fishes of the Indo-australian Archipelago" vol. II, 1913, p. 269 

 under the name of Gagata Schmidti, the name Gagata of Bleeker 

 having priority above Callomystax of Günther. 



An examination of the type specimen showed however, that the 

 specimen possesses a well developed adhesive apparatus between the 



