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of monographic reviews of Japanese fishes was begun, in 1900, 

 as a result of the exploration made in that year by Jordan and 

 Snyder, it was hoped that they would serve to furnish to Japa- 

 nese naturalists a record of the literal are largely inaccessible 

 to them, and a record of descriptions of the known species. It 

 was hoped at the same time that making the literature of the 

 subject compact in this way would lead to a rapid development 

 of the science of ichthyology among the Japanese naturalists 

 themselves. The recent publications of Ishikawa, Kishinouye 

 Otaki, and Tanaka, and of other students of the great teacher, 

 Mitsukuri, have shown that these expectations have not been dis- 

 appointed. 



In the Revista Universitaria, Peru, 1909, Professor Carlos E. 

 Porter, of Valparaiso, gives a list of the most important fishes 

 on the coast of Chili and Peru. Forty-six species are enu- 

 merated. 



In the Publications of the Bureau of Science of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, at Manila, .Ionian and Richardson give a check list 

 of the fishes known to inhabit the waters of the Philippine 

 Islands. This list, based on the various collections made under 

 the auspices of the United States Government, and of the local 

 Bureau of Science, now numbers eight hundred thirty species. 



It is probable that a full enumeration of the fishes of these 

 islands will rise to double that number. One new genus is 

 proposed in this paper. Vespicidus for Prosopodasys gogorza. 



David Starr Jordan. 



ENTOMOLOGY 

 A New Catalogue of Hemipterous Insects. 1 — A catalogue exhibits 

 the taxonomy of a group in its most condensed form. For this 

 reason, it is as interesting and valuable to a specialist as it is un- 

 interesting and unintelligible to one who has paid no attention to 

 the particular order or family it represents. It has indeed a very 

 high value for the uninitiated, inasmuch as it gives him a clue to 

 the literature on and affinities of any particular form he may 

 need to investigate ; but it is only the specialist, who has long 

 worked on the group, who can at once appreciate its dramatic 

 significance. The present reviewer ventures to consider himself 

 an hemipterist of a sort, but his particular speciality has been the 

 tail of the order, as it were, while the first volume of the new 



'"Catalogue of the Hcinipteru ( Hotei-optem)," by G. W. Kirkaldy, 

 Vol. I, Cimicidte. Berlin, F. L. Dames, 1909. 



