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eludes that its peculiar prickles do not justify generic separation from 



In the Snnthsnnlan M i.sn /la nmu. Cnl/rrflons (vol. 45, 1904), Hemi- 

 barhiis joitcui, a large chub from China, is described by Jordan and 

 Starks. 



In the ProcvediiKjx of ihe United States National Museum, (vol. 

 28, 1905), Dr. C. H. Gilbert and Surgeon J. C. Thompson discuss 

 <?ertain rare fishes collected by Dr. Thompson in Puget Sound. Two 

 new species, both sculpins, are described: Stelgidnnoins IatiJro)i.s\ 

 and Malacocoftus kincaidi, the first a type of a new genus. ArfaJius 

 ■asperulus Starks proves to be the young of Asirolytes fenestra! is. 



In the same Proceedings, :\Iessrs. Jordan and Starks discuss the 

 fishes collected by Pierre L. Jouy on the coasts of Korea. Seventy- 

 one species were obtained, a considerable number of which are new 

 to science. The shore fishes are essentially those of Japan; the river 

 fishes are nearly all new to science and of Chinese types. 



In the Annotationes Zoological Japonenses, (vol. 5, 1905), Hans 

 Sauter of Yokohoma describes a new fish, from Japan, of the family 

 Ateleopodidse, under the name of Ijimaia doflein i. The genus Ijimaia 

 differs from Ateleopus in the rather slight character of the shortened 

 ventrals, and in the position of the mouth. 



In the Sitzungshericht der Gesellschafi drr natnrforsrhender 

 Frnnifh', I'.IO.l. Mr. P. Pappenheim discusses the genera of Stur- 

 ge<.!i>, n h rriii'T liic Asiatic species of shovel no.se, (Kessleria = Pseudo- 

 scaphirliyncns.j back to the American genus Scaphirhynchus. There 

 is no obvious justification for this arrangement. 



A. C. INIacCiiklirist (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 15, 1905), 

 <le.scril)es a new g«'mis, Dvsalotus, (D. alcocki) , allied to Chiasmodon, 

 from South Africa. 



the r.iiti.li MliMMim. Prom ^Pequesixtlan, is'lexico, is de.scrfbed a 



stoma, Ciiimlrrhichtliys, and KxoMn,,,.,. >u\\ a.mth.r describes 

 two newfi.shes fnmi the Inlaml N-a of .b.pan, uiitnrtunatcl^ uiihout 

 indication of exact locality, and a new minnow from Lake Biwa. 



