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Mazatlan, is the same as Eleotris picta from farther south. Dorm itafor 

 latifrons, of the Pacific slope, is regarded as different from Dormitator 

 maculaius of the Alhuitic. The name, Chmmphnrus banana, is used 

 mstead ot ilic doiilii tiilly idciil ifiable C/ionophorus (or Awaous) 



dium inultipinirlalum is a new s[)eeies from Oaxaca. Excellent 

 figures are given of many of the species. In the Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, XVIII, 1906, Mr. llegan has numerous 

 papers on fishes. In "Descriptions of Some New Sharks in the 

 British Museum Collection," the Japanese Orectolobus is separated 

 from O. barbatus, as Orectolobus japonicus, and the Japanese Monk- 

 fish as Squatina nebidosa. This had, however, been earlier named 

 Squatina japonica by Bleeker. In another paper in the Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London for V.){)(\, Mr. Regan discusses the classification of the 

 sharks and ray^. pmposini: a new classification. 



The t'ollnv.ini: is KcKuirs arrangement of the families; 

 Subclass Sriarhr,, 



Series 1. Trcmafopnca, 



Order 1. Pleuroptcrijcfii (extinct) 

 Families, Cladoselach idw. 



Order 2. Acnnthodli (extinct) 



Orcctolobida;, 

 Sri/lliorliinidce, 



