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THE AMERICAN NA TURALIST. [Vol. XXXV 1 1. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (XII. 459~466) 



thine or cod-like fishes. He regards the absence of foramen in the 

 liypercoracoid, which separates the cod-fishes from the true jugular 

 fishes (blennies, etc.) as a matter of minor importance, because the 

 t found in several trachinoid fishes, which are true jugu- 

 lar fishes. In the cod-like fishes or Anacanthini, the ventral fins, 



the pelvic bones are posterior to the clavicular arch to which they are 



lares the ventrals, with 6 rays or fewer, are jugular, "the pelvic bones 

 being distinctly and firmly attached to the clavicular symphysis. * 

 The true Jugulares are, of course, modified Acanthopteri. In Mr. 

 Regan's opinion "the Gadoids originated from some less specialized 



their possible derivation "from some Haplomous stock from which 

 the Berycida; have also descended, and of which the Stephanoberycidai 



In Mr. Regan's view the Macrourida are more primitive than the 

 cod-fishes. In this family, Melanomus and Lyconus should be 

 placed. Bregmaceros, wrongly placed near the Brotulidse, has the 

 general structure of the cod-fishes. Muramolepis is the type of a 

 distinct family. Mr. Regan describes a new genus, Gadomus, based 



die last gill, but the hypercoracoid is as in other Macrouri. 



In a recent paper {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XI, 372-374) Mr. Regan 

 discusses again the skeleton of Lervancs imper talis, deciding finally 



Dr. Peter J. Schmidt in Proceedings of the Museum of St. Peters- 



In the series of monographic reviews of the fishes of Japan, Messrs 



