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Mr. J. Douglas Ogilby describes a number of new species of 

 fishes from the neighborhood of Brisbane. 



In the Notes from the Ley den Museum, Vol. XXXII, Professor 

 Max Weber describes a number of new species of fishes from New 

 Guinea. 



In the Revista do Museu Paulista, Vol. VIII, 1910, Professor 

 Rodolpho von Ihering describes a number of new catfishes from 

 the neighborhood of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. 



In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. XXX, 1911, Dr. Charles H. Gilbert describes a number of 

 lantern fishes. One of them, Lampanyctus nicholsi, is new, taken 

 near the Falkland Islands. 



In Science, Vol. XXXI, Dr. George Wagner, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, describes a new Cisco, from Lake Michigan, under 

 the name of Argyrosomus johannce. Of this species a colored 

 figure is given by Jordan and Evermann in the article noticed 



In the Annals of Scottish Natural History, January, 1911, Mr. 

 C. Tate Regan discusses the giant pike of Loch Ken, in Scotland, 

 which reaches a weight of over seventy pounds. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. VII, Mr. 

 Rmarv discusses the '•Systematic Position of the Genns Macrist- 

 ium." M. chavesi is a deep-water fish which represents a family 

 related to Alepocephalus. 



In the same Annals, Vol. VIII, Mr. Regan discusses the "Lam- 

 preys of the World." He regards Bathymyzon as an ordinary 

 lamprey with the teeth feeble. In Ichthyomyzon he recognizes 

 two species, bdellium and castaneus, rejecting the name concolor 

 as being based on a larva, perhaps of Lampetra. The species, 

 spadiceus, japonicus and ivilderi are referred to the genus 

 Entosphenus instead of Lampetra. 



In the Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. VII. 1910, Dr. 

 Jordan describes a series of fossil fishes belonging to the Car- 

 negie Museum, and obtained by Dr. John C. Branner in Brazil. 

 These fishes are from Eocene rocks at Riacho Doce in Brazil. 

 Two new genera are described, Ellipes and Dastilbe, both of these 

 being based on diminutive herring. 



In the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Vol. XLII, 

 1909, Edgar R. Waite gives a "Catalogue of Fishes from 

 Kermadec and Norfolk Islands." 



In another paper in the same Annals he gives notes on various 

 New Zealand fishes. 



In the Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. VII, Jordan and 



