No. 458.) NOTES AND LITERATURE. IOI 
In the Report of the Government Biologist of the Cape of Good 
Hope for 1903, Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist describes seventeen new species 
of fishes from that region. One new genus, Cyttosoma, allied to 
Cyttus, is also recorded. 
In Vol. II of the Results of the Danish Ingolf Expedition, Dr. 
Adolf Severin Jensen gives an elaborate account of the Lycodinz of 
North Europe and Greenland, with a series of excellent plates. The 
genus Lycodalepis is united by Jensen with Lycodes. ‘The species 
generally receive better definitions than have been given by any previ- 
ous author. 
Dr. Gill discusses in the Proceedings of the United States National 
Museum for 1904 the relations of the family of Ammodytida. In 
view of the discovery of the Ammodytoid genus Embolichthys, with 
jugular ventrals, these fins being wanting in all previously known 
species, the group belongs among the jugular fishes. Dr. Gill finds 
no relative nearer than the Hemerocoetidz. 
In the Biological Bulletin for October, 1904, Mr. Edwin C. Starks 
discusses the osteology of the fishes of the order or suborder Haplomi. 
He finds it a heterogeneous group, including probably varying lines 
of descent, having the bond of union of abdominal ventral fins, no 
fin spines, and the loss of the mesocoracoid and orbitosphenoid 
characteristic of more primitive fishes. : 
In the Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, for 1904, Dr. Carlos 
E. Porter describes some new fishes from the deep seas of Chile. 
In the Zransactions of the Zoölogical Society of London, for 
1904, Mr. C. Tate Regan gives a voluminous and important mono- 
graph of the mailed cat-fishes of the South American fauna known 
as Loricariide. 
Dr. Joseph Schmitt publishes in Paris a valuable Monographie de 
"Ile Anticosti, with a list of its animals, about 25 common fishes 
being included. 
Proceedings of the U. S. National 
Jordan and Snyder describe in the I 
a new fish from Hawaii. 
Museum for 1904, Apogon evermanni, 
D. S. . 
