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this paper, and thus it will be of great use to any one who proposes 
to study these highly interesting zoógeographical questions. 
A. E. O. 
The Apogonoid Fishes of Japan. — Jordan and Snyder continue 
their monographic reviews of the various groups of Japanese fishes 
with an account of the cardinal fishes, or Apogonide. Seventeen 
species are described, most of them being figured. Six of these are 
new, one new genus, Telescopias, being recognized. The authors 
have overlooked the fact that Dr. Günther has substituted the generic 
name of Synagrops for Melanostoma, which is preoccupied. D. 3. f. 
Jenkins on Hawaiian Fishes. — In the Bulletin of the United States 
Fish Commission, Dr. O. P. Jenkins continues his studies of the very 
rich collection of Hawaiian fishes made by him in the summer of 1889. 
Fifteen species are described and figured as new: Sphyrena helleri, 
Sphyrena snodgrassi, Anthias fuscipinnis, Aphareus flavivultus, Eupo- 
macentrus marginatus, Chromis velox, Chetodon mantelliger, Chetodon 
sphenospilus, Ostracion camurum, Ovoides latifrons, Tropidichthys jacta- 
tor, Eumycterias biteniatus, Scorpenopsis cacopsis, Parapercis notostigma, 
Brotula marginalis. Later investigations of the Hawaiian Commission, 
of which Dr. Jenkins is a member, show that Chetodon mantelliger is 
the original Chetodon miliaris of Quoy and Gaimard ; Parapercis 
notostigma has been recently and earlier described as Percis schauin- 
slandi by Steindachner. DSL 

Seale on Hawaiian Fishes. — In an * Occasional Paper of the 
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural 
History,” Mr. Alvin Seale, curator of ichthyology, describes six new 
species of fishes from Honolulu, illustrating them with photographs 
of the type specimens. 
These species are: Epinephelus quernus, Novaculichthys tattoo, 
Serranus brighami, Balistes fuscolineatus, Monocanthus albopunctatus, 
Thalassoma berndti (misprinted “ berendto "). 
Of these the Serranus brighami seems to be related rather to 
Etelis than to Serranus. D. 5. J. 
Starks on the Synonymy of the Fish Skeleton. — In the Pro- 
ceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Mr. Edwin Chapin 
Starks gives a comparative study of the names applied to the 
bones of fishes. This will prove a great convenience to students 
