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In another paper Air. Kegan discusses the family of Caris- 

 tiidae which he regards as allies of Beryx. He compares Caristias 

 with Pbdybn-ys. lately described by Zugmayer from Cape St. 

 Vincent. He thinks that the two belong to the same genus and 

 are perhaps not even specifically distinct. In this he is appar- 

 ently wrong; Platyberyx seems related to Beryx but Caristius is. 

 as I have already indicated, closely related to the Bramidse. It 

 is still nearer to Pteraclis from which it is mainly distinguished 

 by the short anal fin, the anal fin in Pteraclis being nearly as 

 long as the dorsal fin. The species described from Japan by 

 Bellotti, as Pteraclis macropus. belongs also to this group and is 

 in fact a second species of the genus Caristius. 



Regan also describes in Ann. and Mag. and in the Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. a large number of species from the rivers of South America 

 with valuable notes and figures. 



In the Records of the Canterbury Museum, Edgar A. Waite 

 gives additions and modifications of the basic list of the fishes of 

 New Zealand. 



In the Trans. New Zeal. Inst, are given a number of valuable 

 notes on New Zealand fishes. The grotesque Aegeonichthys ap- 

 pelli of Clarke is figured and also the extraordinary Oreosoma 

 atlantku)!) , which has not been seen since the original specimen 

 of Cuvier. The fish has seven ventral rays like others referred 

 to the family of Zeidae. 



In the Indiana University Studies, 1912, Dr. Eigenmann de- 

 scribes a number of new species from the rivers of northern Co- 

 lombia and in the Ann. Cam. Mus., 1911, he describes numerous 

 Characin fishes from rivers of northern South America. 



In the Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., Mr. J. T. Nichols gives a list of 

 the fishes known to occur within fifty miles of New York, 237 in 

 number, with figures of several. 



In the Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, Mr. Nichols describes a 

 new frog fish from Barbadoes, Antennarius astroscopus. He also 

 gives a figure of the little known Pseudomonacanthus amphioxys. 



In another paper Mr. Nichols gives notes on Cuban fishes. 

 Siphosfoma h>rr> i and Xystitma havana are described as new. 



In the Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., E. W. Gudger gives notes on 

 fishes from Beaufort, North Carolina. 



In the Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., T. D. A. Cockerell gives valuable 

 notes on the scales of flounders, soles, codfish and other forms. 



