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able to verify in part, having specimens of Elops hmraintsis 

 from Formosa as well as from Hawaii. Regan describes El ops 

 affinis. from Mazatlan and Jalisco, the species being based on 

 a specimen sent as Elops saiirtts by the present writer. 



In the same Annals (1909), Mr. Regan takes up the impossible 

 problem of denning the orders and sub-orders and equivalent 

 groups of the teleostean or bony fishes. The paper is most 

 surest ive and valuable, but no one adjustment of the intricate 

 interrelationships of these fishes is likely to be more permanent 

 than any other. It is encouraging, however, to notice the 

 practical agreement between Mr. Regan's classifications and 

 those adopted by American naturalists in matters in which the 



In the Publications of the Depart men t of Fisheries f< 

 South Wales, David G. Stead gives an interesting ac© 



