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PISCES. 
4 Priodon annulatus, Val., is not identical with Naseus mdrginatus \ Giiu- 
ther, 1 . c. p. 122. 
Naseus punctulatus^ 0. V., described and figured ; Steindachner, SB. Ak. 
Wien, Ixx. p. 386, pi. i. 
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OAEANGIDiE. ‘ 
Caranx. A. Moreau furnishes a note on the swimming bladder of^ C. 
I trachurus ; it performs a purely hydrostatic function, the only opening 
/ being a canal which permits the escape of air by the bronchial cavity, 
Vj^t does not serve to admit air. C. R. Ixxx. pp. 1247-1250. 
^ Caranx laiuSy Agass., = C. fallax^ C. V., and is distinct from C. hippos^ 
L., p. 149; remarks on C. chryso^^ Mitch., ^ aViJiwws, Poey (= Scomber 
ruber ^ BL, and C. blochiit O. heterop^gus, Poey (= amblyrhynchus^ 
Poey), and ^lumieri, Bl., pp. 150-152 ; C. aureus, sp. n., differing in 
colour from C. fallax, p. 151, Cuba ; Poey, Soc. Esp. iv. 
Seriola. Poey, 1 . c. p. 155, redescribes his S. gigas from Cuba, a fish 
which grows to a great size, remarking that it has priority over the S. 
gigas of Gunther from Australia, which Gill considers to be typical of a 
distinct genus Naucratopsis. 
COEYPHJJNIU^. 
Centrolophus peruanus, sp. n., Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixx. p. 884, 
Callao. 
SCOMBEIDJJ. 
{Thynnus') Orcynus. Poey enumerates the following as separate 
species belonging to the Cuban fauna:— 0. thynnus, \^.,’^secundidorsalis, 
Storer (\%Qtl)fbalteatus, Q. V.J^ albacora, Lowe, thunnina, C. V., %elamys, 
L., ana subulatus, Poey, sp. n. ; An. Soc. Esp. iv. pp. 145 & 146. 
Platystethus abbreviatus, sp. n.. Hector, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. p. 79, Cape 
Earewell. 
TeACHINIDJ} and Nandid^. 
The Sillagini are considered as a distinct family [Sillaginoidei, Gill, 
1861], and a revised arrangement of them is given ; Bleeker, Verh. Ak. 
Amst. xiii. pp. 63-74. 
Trachinus draco. On the poisonous nature of wounds inflicted by 
I the spines of this fish ; F. Schmidt, in Nordiskt Medicinskt Arkiv. vi. 
VNo. 2. 
PseudochromidcB. Bleeker revises and recharacterizes the Indopelagic 
species of this group, in which he includes Plesiops and Trachinops, and 
figures Cichlops cyclophthalmus, M. & Tr., pi. ii. fig. 2 ; melanotcenia, Blkr., 
fig. 3 ; trispilus, pi. iii. fig. 5 ; spilopterus, Blkr., pi. i. fig. 4 ; hellmuthi, 
Blkr., pi. i. fig. 6 ; Pseudochromis fuscus, M. & Tr., pi. i. fig. 5 ; xanthochir, 
Blkr., pi. iii. fig. 4 ; melanotcenia, Blkr., pi i. fig. 3 ; cyanotcenia, Blkr., 
pi. i. fig. 2 ; tapeinosoma, Blkr. pi. i. fig. 1 ; polyacanthus, Blkr., pi. iii. 
fig. 2 ; Plesiops nigricans, Riipp., pi. iii. fig. 3 ; oxycephalus, Blkr., pi. ii. 
