NOTES AND LITERATURE 



ICHTHYOLOGY 

 Ichthyological Notes.— The State Laboratory of Natural His- 

 tory of Illinois has published an elaborate work entitled "The 

 Fishes of Illinois," by Dr. Stephen A. Forbes and Robert Earl 

 Richardson. In this work is given a full account of the topog- 

 raphy of the state of Illinois, with excellent descriptions of all 

 the species of fishes found in the state. Many of these are illus- 

 trated by colored plates, and the work is done with admirable 

 conscientiousness and accuracy. An especial feature of the 

 work is the very full account of the food of the different species 

 of fishes. 



In the Proceedings of the Vnihd Stahs National Museum 

 (Vol. XXXV, 1908), Professor J. 0. Snyder describes eighteen 

 now species of fishes from southern Japan and from the Riu 

 Kiu Mauds. Professor Snyder was the first ichthyologist to 

 visit this most interesting group of islands. 



In the same Proceedings, Professor Theodore Gill shows that 

 the name Chcerodon is the oldest name for the genus commonly 

 called Choerops. 



In the same Proceedings, Professor Snyder describes two rare 

 fishes, from California, Eimicola eigenmanni, with which B. 

 muscarum is identical, and Plagiogramnnis hophinsi. 



In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia (1908), Henry W. Fowler gives an excellent 

 synopsis of the Cyprinidae of Pennsylvania, with notes^ on the 

 material examined by Professor Cope. One new species, No- 

 tropis keimi, is described from the Allegheny River. 



In "Annales de la Societe Geologique du Nord" (T. XXXVI, 

 1907), Maurice Lariche presents observations on the fossil fishes 

 of Patagonia, showing that the species of shark recently described 

 as Cretaceous belong to the lower Miocene. 



In the same Proceedings (T. XXXV, 1906), Lariche gives a 

 review of the fossil fishes of the north of France. In his nomen- 

 clature he pays little attention to the law of priority. 



In the same Proceedings, Lariche records various fossils from 

 Brittany and other parts of France. 



