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ZOOLOGIQMi J.JTERATURE. 
from total oumte? of spepies known from tkia island bping 815, 
pp. 273-274 J hq adds six to tke 92 species known from Obi, p, 275 j uine-» 
teen to tke 250 known fr'om Batjan, p, 270 ^ he enumerates 114 species from 
Solar ^ pp, 283-288, and 147 from Bintang, pp. 289-294 j fro adds 11 to the 
133 species previously known from Sangir, p. 302, and 7 to the 37 from thp 
Arou Islands, p, 306. 
Borneo, Dr, Gunther has examined a collection made hy the Marquis J. 
Doria at Sarawalc. The total number of species Icnown from Borneo amounts 
now to about 340. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, i. p, 204.' 
Hong Kong. M. Jouan enumerates 73 species of marine fishes observed 
by him during a month’s sojourn in the neighbourhood of Ilong Kong The 
determinations, evidently made with the aid of scanty literary materials, are 
rather dubious. M(5m. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xiii. pp. 241-262. 
Japan, M, Jouan mentions Scomber pelamys, Thynmis macropterm (?), a 
Tetrodon and a Monacanthus as fishes considered by the Japanese to bo more 
or less dangerous when used as food. L. o. pp. 142-144. 
Waigiou. Dr. Bleeker enumerates 154 species from this island. Z. c, 
pp. 295-301, 
. Nem Guinea. Dr, Bleeker gives a list of 14 species, raising tlm total 
nimiber of fishes known from this island to 270, Z, o. pp, 281-282. 
Tasmania. Mr. Krefft, in his ISfotes on tfre Fauna of Tasmania ” (see 
p. 6), mentions only four freshwater fishes, viz, Oalaxias trutiaceus and 
attenuatus^ AngU/iUa australis^ and Brototroctes murcena. 
DIPNOI, 
Protopterus anguilliformis. Notes by Peters, Mossamb. Flussfisch. p, 2 
(see Zool. Becord, iii. p. 139). 
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PERCJDiE. 
Etheostomata. Prof. Cope (Journ. Ac. Nat. So, Philad, vi. p. 210) has 
given a synopsis of the genera of this group, and descriptions of the follow- 
ing species : — Etheostoma hl^nnioides (Tlaf.), p. 211 j CottogasUr aurantiaous, 
sp. n., p. 211, pi. 24, f. Peeoilichthys zonalia, sp, n., p. 212, pi. 24! f. Ij 
^ Pcecilichthys Jlabellatus (Baf.), p. 218 j Boleosoma ohnstedi (Storer), p. 213 j 
llyostoma hlennioperca, sp. n., p. 215 j Hyostoma simoterufn, sp. n., p. 215, 
pi. 24. f. 5. All these fishes were obtained in rivers of the Alleghauies, 
Centropomus, Dr. Gunther describes six species from Central America, 
Ti*ans. Zool. Soo. 1868, vi, pp. 400-408.— Four species from Central America 
(and San Domingo) are indicated as new by M, Bocourt, Ann. Sc, Nat. 1808, 
/ ix. pp. 90-91, viz. C. unionmsis, C. mexicanus, C. scaberf and C. cuvieii, the 
latter from San Domingo, 
\i Ccntropristis macropoma, figured by Gunther, 1, c. p. 409, pi. 05. fig. 1. 
Centropristis radialis is described as C. ayresii (sp. n.) by Dr. Steindachner, 
^ Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1868, Ivii. p. 905, taf. 1. fig. 1. 
Anthias. The following is the result of M. Guichenot’s ami nation of 
the specimens of this genus in the Paris Museum, Ho distingnislies four 
