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PISCES. 
Polynesia » 
Gunther, A. Die Fische der Siidsee (ii. & iii.). J. Mus. GodefOr. v. & 
vii. pp. 25-96, pis. xxi .-lx. 
Contains the continuation of the Percidce (Pristipomatidce^ including 
Gerres), Squami^innes, Mullidce^ Sparidai, CirrhUidoi, Scorpcenidce^ Nan- 
didoi, Teuthididw, and Beryi^idoi. 
Tasmania, 
M. Allport records the capture of a Salmo salar^ which must have 
been bred in the colony. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 206. 
New Zealand, 
Notes by Hutton, Haast, and Hector. Tr. N. Z. Inst. vi. pp. 103- 
108 ; and Haast, op. cit. vii. pp. 237 & 238. 
Hector, op. cit. vii. pp. 239-260, gives a list of fishes caught by him 
o^West Coast of Otago in 1874. 
' North and South America. 
Vaillant, L., & Bogourt, F. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans 
I’Am^rique Centrale, 4® partie. Etudes sur les poissons. 6 sheets, 
40 pages, 7 plates. Paris : 1874, 4to. 
Commences the description of the Percidce^ the letterpress being occu- 
pied by the genus Centropomus. The collections from this region to be 
subsequently discussed consist of the genera Apogon^ Serranus, Plectro- 
poma, Centropristis, Dioplites, and of representatives of the Berycidce, 
. Polynemidce, and Sphyramidce. 
^ The Plagopterince^ a small group of Cyprinidce^ inhabiting the Colorado 
River, are described by E. D. Cope in a paper on the Ichthyology of 
Utah. P. Am. Phil. Soc. xiv. pp. 122-139. 
Cope has also described the Siluridoi collected by Professor Orton in the 
Upper Amazon. The new species will be referred to below. P. Ac. 
Philad. 1874, pp. 132-137. 
f~ Brazil. 
5 C. F. LtiTKEN enumerates the fish found in the Rio das Velhas and 
\ Lagoa Santa and tributaries. Overs. Dan. Selsk. 1874, pp. 139-143. 
\ There are also papers by the same writer on the Characinidoi of Cen- 
] tral and South America, in Yid. Medd. pp. 220-240 ; and of Central 
! Brazil, in Overs. Dap. Selsk. 1874, pp. 127-138. 
PALiBIOHTHYBS. 
Bunge, A. Ueber dieNachweisbarkeit eines biserialen Archipterygium 
bei Selachiern und Dipnoern. Jen. Z. Nat. viii. pp. 293-^307, pis. 
viii. & ix. 
Hertwig, 0. Ueber Bau und Entwickelung der Placoidschuppen und 
der Zahne der Selachier. Tom. cii.*pp. 331-402, pis. xii. & xiii. 
Polyodon gladiua^ Mart. On its anatomy ; Christison, P. R. S. Edinb. 
viii. pp. 60 & 136. 
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