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Jordan and Branner give an elaborate account of the fossil fishes 

 of the cretaceous beds of Ceara, Brazil, these specimens being 

 obtained from the Serra do Araripe, the locality from which 

 specimens had previously been obtained by Spix, by Agassiz 

 and by collectors for the British Museum. These specimens 

 are found in concretions of fine clay, and some of them are 

 found to be beautifully preserved when these concretions are 

 opened. In one species, Calamopleurus cylindricus, the black 

 pigment at the base of each scale forming stripes along the side 

 of the body is perfectly preserved, and the eye-ball is also well 

 shown. In this collection Jordan and Branner find eleven dif- 

 ferent species, including all of those described by Agassiz, and 

 including three new genera, Tharrhias, Enneles and Cearana. 

 Most of the species belong to the family of Elopidae, which 

 represents one of the earlier types of bony fishes. 



In the Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, Volume 7, 1908, Mr. William C. Kendall gives a very 

 useful list of the fishes of New England, and the localities from 

 which each species has been recorded. The list contains 341 

 species, a number of these being estrays from the south brought 

 northward by the Gulf Stream. 



In the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Volume 4, 1908, 

 Jordan and Snyder describe and figure three new carangoid 

 fishes from Formosa. One of these, Ulna richardsoni, consti- 

 tutes a distinct genus, separated from Caranx by the extraor- 

 dinary development of the gill-rakers, which cause the mouth 

 to appear as if "full of feathers," much as in the genus of 

 mackerels called Kastrelliger. 



In the Journal of the College of Science of the Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokyo, Volume 23, 1908, Mr. Shigeho Tanaka gives a 

 list of sixteen species new to the fauna of Japan, all but one 

 of them new to science. Among these species is the new genus, 

 Owstonia, of the family of Opisthognathidse. Most remarkable 

 of the discoveries is the addition of two more new species of 

 Chimera to the Japanese fauna. This makes eight species of 

 Chimgera in all, described from Japan, all of them discovered 

 since the year 1900. 



In the Annotationes Zoological Japonenses, Volume 6, 1908, 

 Mr. Tanaka describes the fishes, sixty-three in number, collected 

 by Professor Ijima in Sakhalin. Of the fauna of this region — 



