No. 473] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



number of species, and the much less alpine habitat. The species 

 are three, so far as known: L. microccphahim of soutliern Europe, 

 L. lindgreeni of Assam and Burma, and L. apin/hiimt/ (with varieties 

 or subspecies occidenlnle and luciuosum) of western North Atn<>rica. 

 In New Mexico L. apiculatum ascends to about 8000 ft., and in :Mex- 

 ico even somewhat higher. T. I). A. C. 



Ichthyological Notes.— In the Memoirs of the New South Wales 

 Naturalists' Club, (no. 2, 1904), ISIr. Edcjar R. ^Yaite gives a 

 most useful catalogue of the fishes of tliat State, witli refeiviuv to the 

 •descriptions of each species. ^Nlr. Waiie lias adopted a modern 

 sequence in his classification and the names adopted l)y iiim show 

 a praiseworthy attention to the necessary rules of nomenclature. 

 Five hundred and twenty-six species are enumerated, most of them 

 occurring in the harbor of Sydney. 



In the Records of the Australian Musemn, 1904, vol. 5, :\Ir. \yaite 

 has a useful review of the o;oI)ies with separate ventrals, known as 

 Eleotrids, found in the waters of Xew South Wales. In another 



of the Fighting Fish, Belta pugna.r. 



In the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Professor W. 15. 

 Benham of Otago University describes a new species of the great 

 pelagic Oar-fish, under the name of Regaleeiis parkeri. 



In the Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Havundersdgelser, of Den- 

 mark (vol. 2, no. 7, 1905), Dr. Adolph Severin Jensen gives a mono- 

 graphic account of the ear-stones of fishes dredged in the "Polar 

 Deep." He develops the fact, hitherto unknown, that otoliths in 

 great quantities are deposited in the northern seas at the present 

 time. Many of these belong to the small codfish, Micromesistius 

 poutassou, a fish not properly reckoned as arctic. 



In the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries for 1904 (vol. 24) Mr. 

 Frederick A. Lucas discusses the osteology of the Tile-fish, Lopho- 

 latilus chamceleonticeps, a singular fish of the depths of the Atlantic. 

 He finds the family Latilidw, to which it belongs, well (h^fined, and 

 well separated from Malacanthus and from liatli} master, which 

 have been wrongly associated with it. In the same Bulhiin, Mr. C. 

 E. Silvester discusses the blood-vascular system of tlie Tile-fisli. 



In an elaborate paper in the Proemllngs of ihr Washington Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, William F. Allen, of Stanford University, describes 



