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Ixxi. pp. 61-13G, pis. i.-viii., and pp. 211-244, pis. i.-vi ; the Siluridce 
(Doradina) tom. cit. pp. 138-154, pis. i.-iv. He also describes new species 
of fish from the East and West coasts of South America ; op. cit. Ixxi. 
pp. 4G8-480. 
r C. F. Lutken has produced a valuable contribution to Brazilian Ich- 
I thyology, viz., “ Velhas Flodens Fiske,” a monograph of the fish of the 
! Rio das Velhas, being the scientific results of Prof. Reinhardt’s collec- 
I tions and observations. They belong to the families Sciccnidm, Siluridce^ 
I Characinidce, and Gymnotidm. The original diagnoses and descriptions 
i of all the new species were referred to in Zool. Rec. x. & xi. The 
: plates and figures now added will be mentioned below. Dan. Selsk. Skr. 
I (5) xii. pp. 123-252, with synopsis in Latin, pp. i.-xxi., pis. i.-v., and 
■ numerous figures in the text. 
!. S. W. Garman gives a list of some fishes collected along the western 
coast of South America. P. Bost. Soc. xviii. p. 202. 
Juan Fernandez . 
j The fish from this islsind in the Vienna Museum are described by 
^ Steindachner. SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxi. pp. 443-4G8. 
PAL^IOHTHYBS. 
GANOIDEI. 
"I Ceratodus fornteri^ Gthr. A. Meyer does not think that the separation 
of this species and i(7. miolepis, Gthr., will hold good, having found a 
specimen in which the character of the number of scales is intermediate. 
Ann. N. H. (4) xv. p. 3G8. 
4 Sterledus ruthenus, yar. n. sibiricus ; Dybowski, Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxiv. 
p. 394, Angara River. 
CHONDROPTP]RYGII. 
Holocephala. 
ChimcBra monstrosa. On two hitherto undescribed cartilages in the 
visceral skeleton. B. Solger,' Morphol. JB. i. Heft. i. (with fig. 3 & 
pLvi.;. 
PLAGIOSTOMATA. 
/ C. Semper has followed up his former account of the occurrence of 
j segmental organs in Selachia^ by a paper on their presence in 
L Selachian embryos. Centralbl. med. Wiss. Wiirzb. 1874, No. 52. 
P. Pavesi gives a detailed description of a sharjc caught in the Bay 
of Spezia, near Lerici, and determined as the ^Squalus rostratus of 
Maori. He considers the forms known 2 ^^ Polyprosopus as constituting a 
species of Selache, and not as monstrosities. Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. pp. 
5-72, pis. i.-iii. 
^ Lamna cornubica. Turner affirms the presence of a pair of spiracles 
I in the Porbeagle. J. Anat. Phys. 1875, p. 301. 
