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Trachinidas. 
Aphritis gohio. Notes by Ounningliiim, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 469. 
BaTRACHIDtE. 
Batraehus cirrhosus, sp. n., Klunzinger, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 500, 
Red Sea. 
Pediculati. 
Dr, LOtken directs attention to an error committed by some ichtliyologists, 
who denied the presence of pseudobranchiae in this family. Overs. Dan. 
Selsk. 1871, p. 65. 
— V Omirodcs eschrichtii, g. et sp. n., Liitken, 1. c. pp. 66-74, tab. 2. Differs from 
Melanocetus in having a horizontal mouth and the dorsal formula 1/1/6, 
Greenland. — ^The author mentions also that the so-called palatine and ptery- 
goid teeth of Melanocetus belong in reality to the upper pharyngeals, as is also 
the case with Oneirodes. 
Himantoloplms gronlandicus (Reinhardt) compared with Ceratias. Liitken, 
j I c, p. 70. 
Lophius piscatorius. The spawn has been observed as a floating sheet of 
mucus, of from some sixty to one himdred square feet. S. F. Baird, Amer. 
Nat. 1871, V. p. 785. 
COTTIDAS. 
Trigla Qnm] cMcw??is’described from Scandinavian specimens by Malm, CEfv. 
Sv. Akad. 1870, p. 826. — The author has confirmed the view of several ichthy- 
ologists, that'^J'. gurnardus and'"T. hlochii \ctictdtis'] are the same species. 
Ihid. p. 829. 
v' Bactylopterus chirophthalmns (Blkr.) is the young of D. orientalis. Gunther, 
P. Z. s'. 1871, p. 663. 
Phtycephalus cinereus, sp. n., Giinther, 1. c. p. 66l, South Australia. 
Cataphragti. 
Peristethus Uorhynchus^ sp. n., Gunther, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 663, pi. 62, Manado. 
— Peristethus engyceros, sp. n., Gunther, L c. (with woodcut). Sandwich 
Islands. 
'^Peristedion micronemus is described as a new species from Cuba by Poey, 
Ann. Lyc. N. H. New York, ix. 1870, p. 321. 
COMEPHORIDAE. 
Comephorus haicalensis has five pyloric appendages, Giinther, A. & M. N. 
H. 1871,viii.p. 292. 
Gobiid^. 
Gohius. Dr. Klunzinger (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1871, pp. 471-479) de- 
scribes 13 species from the Red Sea, of which Gohius koseirensis, p. 474, is new. 
— Gohius echinocephalusxs, said to be provided with canine teeth, and therefore 
not distinct from G. amiciensis, p. 476. — Gohius capistratus— Gohius ophtlial- 
motmiia^ p. 476.' 
Gohius mucosus, sp. n., Gunther, P. Z.S. 1871, p. 663, pi. 63. fig. A, Adelaide. 
