NOTES AND LITERATUEE 



NOTES ON ICHTHYOLOGY 



In the Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. VII, 1911, Pro- 

 fessor Edwin C. Starks gives the result of the survey of San 

 Juan Island in Puget Sound. Professor Starks regards Hex- 

 anchus corinus from this region as identical with Hexanchus 

 griseus, a view already suggested by Mr. Regan. He regards 

 Raja stellulata as a valid species. Raja Jcincaidi is identical 

 with R. stellulata. New species as follows are described and 

 figured: Sebastodes deani, S. clavilatus, S. emphceus. Xystes 

 a,n noplirijs is the young of Averruncus emmelane. Xiphistes 

 ulvai is identical with X. chirus. One hundred and fifty-eight 

 species of fishes are enumerated as known to occur in Puget 

 Sound. 



In the Publications of the University of California, Vol. VIII, 

 1911, Edwin C. Starks and William M. Mann discuss a collec- 

 tion of fishes from San Diego. A new genus, Orthonopias, based 

 on 0. triads, a new species of sculpin with a scaly back allied 

 to Astrolytes, is described. Another new genus is Rusulus, 

 related to Clinocottus and based on a new species, R. saburrce. 

 Mai/urn califomica Gilbert is a new species described from Gil- 

 bert's manuscript. Valuable notes are given on other rare 

 species. 



In Science, Vol. XXXI, p. 316, Mr. Henry W. Fowler notes 

 that Coccogenia Cockerell and Callaway (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 1902, p. 1, 90) is a synonym of Coccotis Jordan (Kept. Geol. 

 Surv. Ohio, IV, 1882, p. 852) both being based on Hypsilepis 

 covcogt nis Cope. 



In the Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. for 1910, Mr. Henry W. 

 Fowler gives a list of little known fishes of New Jersey. He has 

 also notes on Chimaeroid and Ganoid fishes. He recognizes a 

 number of Gar pikes, instead of the three usually recorded as 

 valid. The number is certainly greater than three, but such 

 studies as we have been able to make would not indicate that all 

 of those noted and figured by Mr. Fowler are really distinct 

 species. Mr. Fowler describes as new, Cylindrosteus scabriceps 

 from Leavenworth, Kansas, and C. megalops from Bay Port 

 Florida. 



In the same proceedings for 1910, Mr. Fowler describes 

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