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cusses the fish fauna of Lake Tanganyika with several new 

 species and excellent plates. 



In the Bull. Soc. Zool. of France Dr. Pellagrin describes a 

 new Barbus from South Africa, and in the Bull. Soc. Philom., 

 Paris, he describes a new Tilapia. 



In Arch. Zool. Exper. of Paris Louis Fage discusses the small 

 codfish of the Mediterranean, showing that capelanus is distinct 

 from luscus and from minutus. 



In the Publ. Dept. Agric. E. W. L. Holt and L. W. Byrne 

 describe the fishes of the genus Scopelus (earlier and therefore 

 preferably known as Myctophum). 



In the Publ. Zool. Inst, of Lund University Nils Rosen gives 

 an account of the reptiles and fishes of the Bahamas, an excel- 

 lent piece of work. New species as follows are described: 

 Nannocampus nanus from Andros; Garmannia rubra from An- 

 dros; Gobiesox androsiensis from Andros; Anchenopterus gran- 

 dicomis from Andros. Mr. Rosen regards Holocentrus siccifer 

 Cope and Holocentrus puncticulatus Barbour as identical with 

 H. coruscus. He also suggests the possible identity of the genus 

 Gymneleotris and Pycnomma with Garmannia. The supposi- 

 tion is that in the first named genus the ventrals being described 

 as separated have been simply split apart, the membrane being 

 very thin. 



In the Proc. Boy Soc. of Queensland J. Douglas Ogilby de- 

 scribes an interesting series of new species. 



David G. Stead in the Publications of the Department of 

 Fisheries of New South Wales gives a valuable account of the 

 fisheries of that region. 



In the Kongl. Sven. Vet. Hand!., XLVII, 1911, Professor 

 Einar Lonnberg gives an account of the reptiles and fishes of 

 British East Africa. 



In a considerable volume published by E. J. Brill, of Leyden, 

 1911, Dr. Max Weber, of the University of Amsterdam, and 

 Dr. L. F. de Beaufort give a complete index to the genera or 

 species described and mentioned by Dr. Pieter Bleeker, the 

 most voluminous of all writers of ichthyology. In view of the 

 exceedingly great difficulty in getting exact references to Dr. 

 Bleeker 's works, this volume of 410 pages of names and refer- 

 ences is exceedingly useful. 



In the Pmc. of the New Zealand Institute, 1910, Mr. Edgar 

 R. Waite gives a record of additions to the fish fauna of that 

 country with several new genera and species. 



