No. 535] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



from perchlike fishes — the genus Psettodes with a spinous dorsal, 

 being the most primitive of the group. He divides the flatfishes 

 into four families, Bothidae, Pleuronectidae, Soleidae and Cyno- 

 glossidre. He finds no evidence that the flounders are related 

 to Zeus, as suggested by Boulenger. The relation to the fossil 

 genus Amphistium seems to be possible. In Regan's judgment 

 this fish is a percoid, allied to Psettus or to Platax. The adjust- 

 ment of the genera of flounders is somewhat different from that 

 usually accepted. 



In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 

 Professor T. D. A. Cockerell discusses the scales of various soft- 

 rayed fishes. He finds in the structure of the scale valuable 

 characters for the distinction of genera and subgenera, in differ- 

 ent groups of fishes. This is the first critical study of scales with 

 a view to using their characters in the classification of genera, 

 and Mr. Cockerell 's observation should be extended throughout 

 ichthyology. 



In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. XXVIII, 1910, John Treadwell Nichols discusses the 

 occurrence of the pelagic pipefish, Siphostoyna pelagicum. They 

 occur especially in the drifting Gulf weed of the mid-ocean. Mr. 

 Nichols has also examined the type of Caranx forsteri from the 

 He de France. He considers that this species is identical with 

 the marginahis of Gill; the rhabdotus of Jenkins; and the elacate 

 of Jordan and Evermann. The specimen called forsteri in 

 Jordan and Evermann 's Hawaiian report, he thinks identical 

 with the Atlantic species latus. 



In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. 28, John T. Nichols describes two new blennies from Florida, 

 Stathmonotus tekla from Kov West, and Blennius fabbri from 

 Miami. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1910, Holt 

 and Byrne describe a new deep-water fish as Grammatostomias 

 flagellibarba. 



In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. XXVIII, 1910, Russell J. Coles describes an interesting col- 

 lection of fishes from Beaufort, N. C. One of these is Mobula 

 olfersi, the small devil fish. Several other rare West Indian 

 species are recorded by Mr. Coles. 



In the American Naturalist, 1909, E. W. Gudger records a 

 number of species of interesting fishes found also at Beaufort. 



In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 1910, 



