226 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXV. 
that these trout were placed in Feather River by Mr. Pratt, for 
whom the town of Prattsville is named. 
In the Blue Lakes of Amador County are also found trout trans- 
ported across the Sierras from tributaries of Lake Tahoe. 
In the streams running down the east slope of Mt. Whitney about 
Lone Pine are found the golden trout of Mt. Whitney, Salmo agua- 
bonita, These were transported by local anglers from Volcano 
Creek, the isolated mountain stream above Agua-bonita Falls, in 
which the peculiar form or subspecies has been developed. 
This summer Rev. Edwin Sidney Williams, of Saratoga, Cal., 
transferred twenty young trout, the species not indicated, and a 
dozen chubs from Pelican Bay on Klamath Lake into the famous 
Crater Lake of Oregon, an extraordinary body of water without 
inlet or outlet and, I believe, hitherto without fish life. WEN 
An Error Corrected. — In Jordan and Evermann's Fishes of North 
America the generic diagnoses of Collettia and Aéthoprora have been 
by some unaccountable accident interchanged. It is Aéthoprora 
which has a luminous gland on the front of the head “like the 
headlight of an engine.” 
In the same family of Myctophide, Neoscopelus macrolepidotus 
Johnson, dredged by the A/ake in the West Indies, was omitted by 
oversight. This genus, with Scopelengys, should apparently form 
a distinct family, Neoscopelidz, distinguished by the broad maxillary 
with supplemental bone. DSI 
Notes on Recent Fish Literature. — In the Proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Mr. Henry W. Fowler 
gives an account of the fishes from the Caroline Islands presented 
to the Academy by Professor Cope. Forty-five species are enumer- 
ated, the following new: Cypsilurus quindecimradiatus, Thalassoma 
immanis, Scarus pronus, Scarus lupus. These are illustrated by 
accurate but rather coarsely engraved plates. 
Mr. Fowler gives an account of the typical specimens of Ameiurus 
prosthistius described by Professor Cope from Batsto River, New 
Jersey. This is regarded by Jordan and Evermann as a synonym of 
the Florida species of catfish, Ameiurus erebennus. But Mr. Fowler’s 
account leaves little doubt of its specific distinctness. 
I venture to say that other species in this group will prove to be 
valid. Especially is it likely that the short-bodied type, called Amei- 
urus natalis, will prove distinct from the common form which has 
been called Ameiurus lividus. 
