
NOTES AND LITERATURE. 
ZOOLOGY. 
The Fishes of Guam. — In the director’s report of the Bernice 
Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu (for 1900), Mr. Alvin Seale, 
curator of fishes, gives a record of the birds and fishes collected by 
him on the island of Guam. Two hundred and seventy-four species 
of fishes were obtained, of which eighteen are described as new, 
useful descriptions being given of all the others. The fauna differs 
considerably from that of Hawaii, the number of species common 
to the two groups of islands being less than one-third of the number 
enumerated. The fauna of Guam naturally approaches more nearly 
to that of the East Indies. In commenting on this most valuable 
and helpful piece of work, the first accurate faunal list of fishes of 
Polynesia yet published, two minor criticisms are necessary. 
The proof reading should receive more careful attention; Zebra- 
soma appears three times as Zabrasoma, and Garres argyeus stands 
for Gerres argyreus. Still more important is the form given to new 
names.  Pseudoscarus platodoni apparently refers to the broad teeth 
(platyodon or platyodus). eres cephalopunctatus is unfortunately 
named and is, of course, not an agonoid, but a species of Parapercis, 
a genus of trachinoid affinities. Gobius deltoides belongs to some 
genus other than Gobius. These and other corrections will doubtless 
be made in due time by the author, and the work will prove most 
useful to future students of the Polynesian fish fauna. Di Se] 
Notes on Fishes. — Henry W. Fowler notes in the Proceedings of 
the Academy at Philadelphia (Vol. LIII, Pt. IIT) the occurrence of 
Myctophum phengodes, collected off the west coast of Greenland by 
Dr. Hayes. 
In the Zoologischer Anzeiger (Bd. XXV, No. 666) Dr. Poche calls 
attention to the identity of the three nominal genera of siluroid 
fishes, called Amphilius, Anoplopterus, and Chimarrhoglanis, the . 
name Amphilius being the earliest. 
In the records of the Australian Museum, Edgar L. Waite records 
numerous fishes from western Australia, with valuable notes and 
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