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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVIII. 



In the Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences (Vol. V, 

 pp. 189-229), Messrs. Edmund Heller and Robert E. Snodgrass 

 give an account of the new species of fishes taken in their expedition 

 to the Galapagos under the auspices of the Hopkins Seaside Labora- 

 tory of Stanford University. The following are the new genera and 



Evolantia for Exxoctus micropterus, Sphyrcena idiastes, Apogon 

 atrodorsatus, Galeagra /^^w^/«<?/aj■ (a new genus allied to Acropoma), 

 Corvula eitrymesops, Scicena perissa, Azurina eupalama, Pomacetitrus 

 redemptus, Pomacentrus arcifrons, Nexilosus albemarleus (a new 

 genus allied to Hypsypops), Scarus noyesi, Pontinus strigatus, Eleotris 

 tubularis, Cotylopus cocoensis, Gobius rhizophonz (a species of Cory- 

 phopterus), Gobius gilherti (a species certainly referable to the Japan- 

 ese genus Pterogobius), Arbaciosa truncata, Malacoctenus zonogaster, 

 Lepisoma je?ikinsi, Encheliophis jordani, Petrotyx hopkinsi, Eutyx 

 diagrammiis (Petrotyx and Eutyx are new genera of Brotulidae) , 

 Antennarius togus, Allector chelonice (Allector is a new genus allied 

 to Chaimax). A list of all the species constituting this splendid col- 

 lection will appear later. 



In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (XVI, 

 1903), Austin H. Clark shows that the earliest name of the common 

 American Eel is Anguilla chrisypa Rafinesque, the name meaning 

 "besmeared or anointed below." Rafinesque calls it "Gold-breast." 



In the Bulletin du Museum d' Histoire Naturelle Paris (1903), Dr. 

 Pellegrin describes a number of new species of Cichlidae, one of 

 them, Heros {Cich/asoma) labridens, being from Huasteca Potosina, 

 from the veteran naturalist, Dr. Alfredo Duges of Guanajuato. It is 

 near Cichlasoma bartoni. Several others are from Guiana. 



In the Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission (1902) Professor W. 

 J. Moenkhaus describes a new species of Darter, Hadropterus ever- 

 matmi from Lake Tippecanoe in Indiana. 



D. S. J. 



BOTANY. 



Notes.— Professor Ganong's address on the cardinal principles of 

 ecology is published in Science of March 25. 



Daniel gives an account of a graft-hybrid between pear and quince 

 in the Revue Generale de Botanique of Jan. 15. 



