No. 473] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencrs at Phila- 

 delphia (1905) Henry W. Fowler publishes a number of I):i|>.ms on 

 rare or little known species of fishes in the museum of the Acjidriii x . 

 One of these treats of fishes of Borneo, with a number of new <:< m ia 

 and species; another of Arctic fishes, from Port Barrow; iiiioihcr, 

 in connection witli Dr. HcMiiainiii Sharp, on the fishes of Nantucket. 

 Two others treat of raiv ..r linlc known forms allied to the Mackerel. 

 A new sub<-cnus, Si(MT:i, is proposed for Scomheromorujt cavalla; 

 another, Lei)tnra( antlnis, for Trirhiiniis sarala. Caranx ruber be- 

 comes the type of Elaphrotoxon and Vexillicaranx is typified by 

 Caranx ajricanus. Rhapiolepis is based on Scomheroides tol. The 

 Pilot-fish of the Pacific, found in Hawaii and Japan is described 

 as Naucrates polysarcus, the type being from the West Coast of 

 Mexico. If the species is valid, some one of the older names, given 

 to Pacific specimens may belong to it. 



In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum (vol. 2S), 

 Dr. Theodore Gill has a number of short papers on new points in 

 ichthyology. Prionotus stearnsi, a smooth-headed gurnard from 

 Florida, is the type of a new genus, Colotrigla. The insertion of 

 the pectoral fins furnishes the chief distinctive peculiarity. Simopias 

 is a new name proposed as a substitute for Pelor, preoccupied, and 

 Rhinopias is proposed as the generic name for the singular Scorpa na 

 frondosa of Martinique. The subfamily Pelorina^ becomes Ininii- 

 cinae, for the genus Inimicus. Neosebastes entaxis, a Japanese fish, 

 is properly removed from Xe()scl)astes to hecoint^ the tvpe of Sebas- 

 tosemus Gill. 



In the Report of the UnituI SMhs Cnmmlssinwr of Fisheries, Dr. 

 Gill gives an interesting historic rcsicu of the i. lnhu.|oi:y of Ma^si- 

 chusetts. Attention is called especially to ilic nuniluT of waifs, 

 young fish from the tropics, found each year, where the (iulf .Stream 

 reaches the coast of ?klassachusetts. 



1905), Messrs. Jor.ian Ld S.'ale .liM u.> the colleetioi, of tidu's brought 

 by Professor IJa.hfonl Dean from the i.lan.l of Ne::ro. in the Philip- 

 pines. One hundred and eighteen species, mostly small fishes from 

 the Goral reefs, were obtained, of which eighteen are new to science. 

 The fish fauna of the Philippines is essentially that of the East Indies, 

 with a dash of forms from the shores of Mindostan. 



In the same Proceedings, Dr. P<-ter Schmidt of St. i'etershuri: dis- 

 cusses the huge Japanese Snail-fish, T nsnirgistus ,,ir^-lnin, aii.l eon- 



