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several plates. In another article he gives useful notes on an 
Australian shark, Galeus, or Mustelus antarcticus, and its peculiar 
placenta-like structure attached to its young. 
In the Zoologischer Anzeiger for Nov. 25, 1901, Dr. K. Kishinouye, 
head of the Fisheries Bureau of Japan, describes a new shark, Rhino- 
don pentalineatus, taken off Cape Inubo in Japan. This huge animal 
is over thirty feet in length, and had an oak stick a foot long in its 
stomach. The stuffed skin is preserved in Tokyo. 
A skin of the whale shark called Rhinodon typicus has just been 
received at the United States National Museum from Ormond, Fla. 
The skin is eighteen feet long. The species is known thus far from 
the type from the Cape of Good Hope and from teeth taken at the 
Seychelles Islands. Mr. B. A. Bean notes this discovery in Science. 
In the Bullétin de la Société Philomathigue (N.S., Tome III, 
Nos. 3, 4) Dr. Pellegrin discusses those fishes which develop with age 
an adipose pad on the forehead. This is found in numerous wrasse- 
fishes, parrot fishes, snappers, and others. These appendages are 
chiefly confined to adult male fishes and are made of adipose tissue. 
Pellegrin compares it to the deposit of fat in old age in some human 
individuals. 
In the Overland Monthly for F ebruary and March Mr. Cloudsley 
Rutter of the United States Fish Commission gives the story of the 
Sacramento salmon in very unique fashion. A full account is given 
of each detail in the life history of the fish, together with photo- 
graphs of scenes and places on the salmon’s route, and a very large 
number of illustrative drawings. Among the fantastic stories of 
animals now in vogue, many of them having no existence in real 
nature as distinguished from the forests of Kiplingia, it is refresh- 
ing to find a fish story, at once natural and true, the result of years 
of patient observation. 
In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Vol. 
XXIV, Nos. 1260, 1261, and 1263) Jordan and Snyder continue their 
monographic reviews of Japanese fishes, treating the various forms 
combined by Günther under the head of Trachinide. They follow 
Boulenger in separating from this group all the species with thoracic 
ventrals as being percoid rather than trachinoid in their affinities. 
 Twenty-six species are enumerated, seven being new. Three new 
genera, Pteropsaron, Ariscopus, and Stalix, are described and figured. 
Of the Discoboli, four species are enumerated, Lethotremus awe 
and Crystallias matsushime being new, the latter the type of a new 

