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PISOES. 
/ Echinorhinus spinosus. Description and figures of a female specimen 
( caught near Bass Rock in 1874. Turner, 1. c. p. 297, 
V Torpedo. F. Boll has published a historical memoir in Arch.' Anat. 
( Phys. 1874, pp. 152-158 ; and also in MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, pp. 238-241, 
' and Arch. Anat. Phys. 1875, pp. 456-468, pi. xi., a description of the 
f peculiar organs mentioned by Savi in 1844, under the name of ‘ Appa- 
I reil f olliculaire nerveux % not possessed by other nor by 
Gymnotas or Melapterurus ; and 1. c. pp. 710-721, new researches into 
' the anatomy and physiology of Torpedo^ under the following heads : — 
• 1. On the influence of a solution of 2-3 per cent, of common salt on the 
I tissues. 2. Anatomy and histiology of the electric lobe. 3. Histiology 
of the electric nerves. 4. Structure of the electric plates. 5. Structure 
of the terminal plates. 6. Experiments with cwran, showing that the 
electrical power is not immediately destroyed by the action of that 
Vpoison. j 
, On the immunity of Torpedo against a self-inflicted shock. J. Steiner, 
/ Arch. Anat. Phys. 1874, pp. 684-701 ; and on the electric organ, Boll, 
Y Arch. Mikr. Anat. x. p. 101, pi. viii. ; Ciaccio, Rend. Ac. Bologn. 1874, 
l-^ p. 105, and L. Ranvier, C. R, Ixxxi. pp. 1276-1278. 
Trygon Irevicaudata^ sp. n., Hutton, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 317, 
Dunedin. 
Myliohatis noctula, Dum. L. Paolucci describes and figures a mon- 
strous form of this species found in the Adriatic. Atti Soc. Ital. xvii. 
pp. 60-63, pi. i. figs. 1-3. 
TELEOSTBI. 
AOANTHOPTERYGII. 
Percidjj. 
Parts 28 & 29 of the “ Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales 
N^erlan daises,” by P. Bleeker, Amsterdam, 1875, fo. pp. 1-40, pis. 
xlvii.-lxx. (pis. cccxxv.-cccxlviii. of the entire work), are principally 
occupied with the plates, and a portion of the text of the Percidce. [The 
author’s revised arrangement of the family is to be found in a tabular 
form in Arch. N4erl. xi. (1876) pp. 247-288.] 
Acerina czehanowshii^ sp. n., Dybowski, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxiv. p. 383, 
River Angara. 
Anthianini. Bleeker ’s above-mentioned work contains the letterpress 
referring to the following species :—Dactylanthias haplodactylus, Blkr., 
p. 15 Pseudanthias pleurotcenia, Blkr., and'^P. huchti, Blkr., p. 17; 
^ P. chirospiluSf Blkr., p. 18;^P. lepidolepis, Blkr., with note on Ser- 
ranus (Anthias) squamipinnis, Peters, and P. manadensis, Blkr., p. 19 ; 
P. cichlops, Blkr., p. 20. 
Anthias (Ilemanthias, sub-g. n.) peruanus, sp. n., Steindachner, SB. 
Ak. Wien, Ixx. p. 380, Peru. 
4 Serranina. Revised arrangement of the Indopelagic species ; Bleeker, 
Verb. Ak. Ainst. xiv. pp. 1-131. The sumo author prints the doscrip- 
