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NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



beds of Mazon Creek, Illinois. A series of excellent plates illustrate 

 the species under discussion. 



In the Bulletin of the United Stales Fish Commission for 1901, pp. 

 1 3i-i59. Dr. B. W. Evermann and E. L. Goldsborough describe the 

 fresh water fishes collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman in 

 Yucatan and neighboring regions, besides a few small collections 

 from other points of Mexico. The new species are as follows: 

 Conorhynchos nelsoni from Rio Usumacinta, Notropis santamaria 

 from Chihuahua (Lake Santa Maria). Notropis lermee from Lake 

 Lerma, Cichlasoma teapce from Teapa in Tobasco, and Batraehoides 

 goldmani from Rio Usumacinta. The fresh water drum Aplodinotus 

 grunnkns was found in Rio Usumacinta. It was never before noticed 

 south of the Rio Grande. 



In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Vol. XXV, 

 pp. 79-8i), Jordan and Snyder describe two small sharks allied to 

 the Dog-fish from deep waters of the coast of Japan. These species 

 are black in color, and one of them Etmopterus lucifer, has a glandular 

 substance in the skin of the side of the belly, which is said to be 

 luminous in life. The other sharklet, Deania eglantina, differs from 

 Etmopterus in its bristly surface. It is made the type of a distinct 

 genus named for Dr. Bashford Dean. Jordan and Fowler give also 

 a review of the Stone-wall-Perches, Oplegnathidw of Japan. Two 

 species are described. 



In the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fish- 

 eries, for 190 1, Evermann and Goldsborough catalogue the fishes 

 and mollusks of Lake Chautauqua, 31 fishes are enumerated, the 

 Chautauqua Muskallunge, Esox ohioensis, being much the most impor- 

 tance. — Evermann and Kendall publish notes on the fishes of Lake 

 Ontario, 73 species, on the fishes of Lake Champlain, 54 species, and 

 on the fishes of St. Lawrence River, 7 1 species, giving the known 

 localities and the common names of each species. —In the same 

 report Mr. William C. Kendall reviews the silver-sides or brit of the 

 East Coast of the United States, belonging to the genus Memdia. 

 These little fishes are excellent as food, and invaluable as food of 

 the larger species. Mr. Kendall gives figures of most of the recog- 

 nized species, peninsula; auderts, baryllina, and memdia, and describes 

 two new varieties, Memdia peninsula atrimentis from Titusville, 

 Florida, and Menidia berxllina cerea from Waquoit Bay and other 



