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In the Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Dr. C. H. Gilbert and C. V. 

 Burke describe a number of new snail-fishes from the waters of 



In the same proceedings diaries V. Burke describes additional 

 species of snail-fishes or Liparids, including the new yen us /'<</.'/- 

 pera based on X col i parts grccni. Cydogastcr bristolcnse is de- 

 scribed from Bristol Bay, C. megacephalus from Bering Sea. 

 Careproctus gilberti from Kadiak Island, Paraliparis deani 

 from Alaska, Paral iparis garmani from New England and 

 Phinol iparis attenuatus from Bering Sea. 



In the same proceedings Barton A. Bean and A. C. Weed de- 

 scribe an important collection of fishes from Java. 



In the same proceedings Lewis Radcliffe describes 29 new 

 species allied to the codfishes, from the Philippines. A new 

 genus. Macrouroidcs inflaticeps, is made type of a distinct family. 



In the same proceedings D. S. Jordan and C. W. Metz describe 

 two new species from Hawaii. 



In the same proceedings Professor J. 0. Snyder enumerates 

 the fishes collected by him in the Bin Kiu Islands, with numerous 

 figures of interesting forms. The fauna of these islands is 

 strictly tropical, in many regards not very different from that 

 of Samoa but with some characteristic .Japanese species. 



In the same proceedings Professor Snyder enumerates the 

 species obtained in the Albatross expedition of 1906 in the waters 

 of Japan. Many new species are described and figured. 



In the Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash,, B. W. Evermann and H. B. 

 Latimer describe a collection obtained from the Olympic Penin- 

 sula in the state of Washington. In the proceedings of 1908 B. 

 W. Evermann and W. C. Kendall describe and figure a European 

 pipe fish, NeropJiis cequoreus, obtained in the western Atlantic, 

 the first American record of this species. 



In the Bull. Bur. Fish,, 1910, Gilbert and Burke describe the 

 fishes collected in Alaska by the steamer Albatross on its way to 

 Japan. About forty new species were obtained in this expedi- 

 tion. 



In the same bulletin W. C. Kendall describes a new flat fish 

 from the Georges Bank, off New Foundland, under the name of 

 Pseudopleuronectes dignabilis. 



In the Mittcil. Xaturh. Mus. Hamburg, 1912, Georg Duncker 

 discusses the genera of the pipe fishes. 



