NOTES AND LITERATURE 



ICHTHYOLOGY 



Ichthyological Notes.— In the Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, Volume 33, 1908, Jordan and Richardson give 

 an elaborate review of the Flat-heads and Gurnards of Japan. 

 In a personal letter, Mr. C. T. Regan, of the British Museum, 

 makes one or two corrections in this paper, which may be noted 

 here. The species called Eoplichthys langsdorfii by Jordan and 

 Richardson is, according to Mr. Regan, a distinct species, not 

 identical with the original langsdorfii of C. and Y. The 

 species called Eoplichthys langsdorfii by Jordan and Richardson 

 may therefore receive a new name, "Eoplichthys regani Jordan 

 and Richardson." The species called Lepidotrigla microptera 

 is, according to Mr. Regan, distinct from the original type of 

 that species, which is from Shanghai. The Japanese species 

 should, therefore, stand as Lepidotrigla strauchi Steindachner. 



In the same Proceedings, the same authors give an account 

 of a small collection of fishes from the Province of Echigo, in 

 northwestern Japan, obtained by a local naturalist, Masao 

 Nakamura. Besides the three new species in this paper, the 

 present writer has since received from Mr. Nakamura two other 

 species never before taken in Japan, and which may be recorded 

 here. These are Podothecus sturioides Guichenot, and Dasy- 

 cottus setiger Bean. 



In the same Proceedings, Eigenmann and Bean describe a col- 

 lection of fishes from the Amazon River obtained by Professor 

 J. B. Steere. 



In the same Proceedings Mr. B. A. Bean discusses the for- 

 gotten genus Ctenolucius, a pike-like characin from Colombia. 



In the same Proceedings Professor John 0. Snyder describes 

 a new sucker from the Santa Ana River, at Riverside, California, 

 under the name of Pantosteus Santa Ana. 



In the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 48, Mr. 

 Barton A. Bean gives the history of the whale shark, Rhinodon 

 typicus. The proper date of this genus is 1829. 



In the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 52, 

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