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ZOOLOGICAL LITEHATUHE. 
f * pp, 729-749, with a plate. [On the structure aiid growth 
of scales of fishes.] 
\- Stieda, L. Studien fiber das centrale Nervensystem der Kho- 
chcnfischc. Zeitsclir. wiss. Zool. 1808, pp. 1-70, with two 
plates. [Researches on the central nervous system of 
osseous Fishes.] 
Contributions to Faunae. 
Pyrenean Peninsula, Dr. Steindacliner, in the pamphlet noticed above, 
p. 133, states that the number of freshwater fishes of the peninsula is less 
than in any other country of continental Europe, and that this fish-fauna 
is entitled to the rank of a separate province, as an affinity to the French 
fauna occurs in the north of Spain only. lie gives a list of the species, 
amounting to thirty-nine. 
Dr. Steindachner has continued his report on the marine fishes of the 
Pyrenean Peninsula. Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivii. 1868, pp. 351-424^ 
667-738 (see Zool Record, iv. p. 166). These parts treat of 26 Scomhruicey 
10 CarangidcBy 1 XiphiaSyl^ Gobiidee, 1 Patrachus, 2 Lophius, 14 Bleiiniidcey 
1 Traohypterus, 3 Atherina, 6 Muyil, 1 Cepola, 4 Lepadoy aster) 1 'CentriscuSy 
1 Heliastesy 21 LabrideCy 12 OadidcCy 6 OpkidudcCy 2 MqcruruSy 22 Pleura^ 
jnectidcBy 1 AryyropeleCuSy 4 ScopelidcBy 1 Aryentinay 6 Scombresocidcey 
4 Clupeidce. 
Portuyal. M. Capello has continued his catalogue of the Fishes of Por- 
tugal contained in the collection -of the Lisbon Museum (see Zool. llecoiKl, 
iv. p. 166), Jorn. Sc. math. phys. e nat. Lisboa, no. v. This part contains 
an enumeration . of the species of the remainder of the Acanthopterygians, 
the Pharyngognaths, and Anacanthines, with species nos. 86 to 141. 
Mediterranean. For Canestrini’s paper on the Labroids of the Mediter- 
ranean, see p. 162. 
< Gulf of Catania. Prof. Gemmellaro has worked out a catalogue of fishop 
observed by him on this part of the Sicilian coast ; he adds notes to most oT 
them. The paper appears to have been written under considerable disad- 
vantages as regards the means necessary for determining species. Atti Acc, 
Gioenia So. Nat. di Catania, xix. pp. 113-168. 
St. Helena. Dr. GUnther has reported upon a collection made by Mr. J. 
;0, Melliss j it contained 35 species, of which wo shall mention those de- 
scribed as new. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 225-228. 
United States. Prof, Cope has again published a valuable paper, by which 
our knowledge of the ichthyology of the United States is considerably ad- 
vanced. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Pliilad. 1868, vi. pp. 207-247. This contribu- 
tion treats of the fishes of the rivers in the Alleghany region of south- 
western Virginia, and their distribution in the head- waters of four rivers, 
viz. the James, Poanoke, Kanawha, and Tennessee (Holston), having their 
■sources in a common elevated region, whilst their mouths aro most distant. 
The author distinguishes 14 species from the Poanoke, 19 from the James, 
27 from the Kanawha, and 34 from the Ilolston. Excluding from considera- 
tion the universally distributed species, he comes to the conclusions : — 1, that 
there remain still certain species which exist in waters on difierent sides of 
