98 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (Vor. XXXIX. 
In the Journal of the College of Science of Tokyo (Vol. 19) Dr. 
Bashford Dean gives an elaborate account of the anatomy of the 
long-snouted Chimzera of Japan, RAinochimera pacifica. 
In the Journal of the College of Science at Tokyo, Dr. Bashford 
Dean discusses the hag-fishes, or Myxinoids, of Japan, describing a 
new genus, Paramyxine atami, and a new species, Homea okinoseana. 
He also adds notes on Homea burgeri and Myxine garmani, with an 
analysis of the species of the genus, which he calls Homea, but 
which must stand under the less satisfactory but earlier name of 
Eptatretus. In the same Journal Dr. Dean has notes on the Chi- 
mzras of Japan, giving a full account with excellent plates of 
Chimera mitsukurii and C. phantasma. ‘Yhe distinction between 
these two species was recognized almost simultaneously by Jordan 
and Snyder, who adopted the name “mitsukurii” proposed by Dr. 
Dean in correspondence. 
Dr. Léon Vaillant in the Comptes Rendus for 1904 gives an inter- 
esting account of the Japanese goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstont, 
of which a specimen about seven feet long has been received by the 
Museum at Paris. Dr. Vaillant puts the species in the family of 
Lamnidz with Odontaspis and other related forms. 
In the Bulletin of the Museum at Paris for 1903, Dr. Vaillant 
gives an account of the hatching of eggs in the branchial cavity in 
the species of Apogon-like fish, called Cheilodipterus affinis, at Mar- 
tinique. 
In the same Buletin, Dr. Vaillant and Dr. Pellegrin give new 
descriptions of the species of Tetragonopterus, very briefly and 
unrecognizably mentioned in 1868 by Dr. M. F. Bocourt in the Bul 
letin of the Société Zoölogique de France. Dr. Pellegrin also gives 
an account of fishes collected on the coast of Chile. 
In the Records of the Australian Museum (Vol. 5, No. 4), Mr. 
Edgar R. Waite gives a valuable account of rare fishes lately taken 
on the coast of eastern Australia. He shows that the genus 
Goodella is the larval form of Trachinocephalus. The identity of 
the Japanese genus Iso with the Australian Tropidostethus is also 
indicated; but Mr. Waite overlooks the fact that the latter name is 
preoccupied, and the genus may still remain Iso. 
