REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Jordan and Snyder on Japanese Fishes. — In the Proceedings of 
the United States National Museum (XIII, 335), Jordan and Snyder 
give a list of the fishes collected in Japan by Professor Keinosuke 
Otaki in 1895 and 1896, and by the “Albatross” in 1896, these col- 
lections being in the Museum of Stanford University and the United 
States National Museum. Fourteen species are described as new and 
most of them figured by Mrs. Starks. These are Chimera phantasma, 
Gobio biwe, Gobio mayede, Otakia rasborina, Congrellus meeki, Pseudo- 
tolithus mitsukurii, Sebastodes hakodatis, Sebastodes scythropus, Scor- 
pena onaria, Callionymus beniteguri, Trifissus ioturus, Blennius 
Jatabet, Calorhynchus kishinouyei, and Verasper otakii. The species 
last named is probably not distinct from Verasper grigorjewt, lately 
described as a species of Hippoglossus from Hakodate by Herzen- 
stein. The manuscript name of Lampetra mitsukurii Hatta is 
adopted for the small lamprey of southern Japan. 
In the list of Japanese fishes the following new genera are 
indicated: Jshikauia (steenackeri), Otakia (rasborina), Konosirus 
(punctatus), Bryttosus (kawamebari), Corusculus (Anthias berycoides), 
Lteliscus (Etelis berycoides), Insidiator (rudis), Trifissus (ioturus), 
Rhombiscus (cinnamomeus), Karcius (bicoloratus = scutifer), Usinosita 
(Japonica), Zebrias (zebrina), Areliscus (joyneri). 
he two species referred to Gobio belong rather to Günther’s 
genus Leucogobio. The specimens called Apogon guadrifascia- 
fus belong to Apogon notatus (Houttuyn) = semilineatus Schlegel. 
Those recorded as Sebastodes oblongus belong to S. mitsukurii 
Cramer, which differs in the larger scales. The species recorded 
as Chenogobius castaneus is distinct from the latter species and is 
as yet undescribed. The genus Trienophorichthys, as Steindachner 
has shown, is identical with Tridentiger, and Trifissus is not differ- 
ent. In fact, later investigations show the identity of Trifissus 
toturus with Steindachner's Tridentiger bifasciatus. D.S Í. 
Fowler on Fishes of the Tropical Pacific. — In the Proceedings of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia (1900, p. 493) Mr. Henry 
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