PISCES. 
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Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 18G6 j lie names them Datnia ohtusirostrisj 
p. 132, and Dabiia elongata, p. 133. 
Pristipoma. Col. Playfair describes two new East African species in Fish. 
Zanz. : P. multimaculatum, p. 23, pi. 3. f. 3, and P. operculare^ p. 24, pi. 4. f. 1. 
Pristipoma hcnnettii. Notes by Troschel, in Wiegm. Arch. 1866, p. 200. 
Ilapalogenys meyenii, sp. n., Peters, Monatsber. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1860, p. 96, 
from Manilla. 
Diagramma. Troschel adopts the genus Genyatremus of Gill, and describes 
as new species from the Cape de Verde Islands latifrons,L c. p. 202 [ap- 
pears to be identical with Piagramma citrinellmn, Gtht.], andu. angustifron'^, 
1. c. p. 203.^Prof. Peters describes (Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1866) as 
new species^, picoides (p. 94), from the East Indies, and^D. microlepidotum 
(p. 95), from China. He states also that the specimens of Diagramma cavi- 
frons (C. & V.) in the Berlin Museum belong to this genus, and not to 
Pristipoma. 
Diagramma griseum (C. & V.) figured in Fish. Zanz. pi. 4. f. 3. — Z)m- 
gramma ptrtusum (Thunb.) figured, ibid. f. 2. 
llcemulon. On the Cuban species described by Cuv. & Val. see Poey, 1. c. 
pp. 309-311. 
A Dentcx midtidens (C. & V.) is described by Prof. Troschel from Cape de 
. Verde specimens. Wiegm. Arch. 1866, p. 213. 
Ileterognathodon Jlavivcntris, sp. n., Steindachner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 
Wien, 1866, p. 778, taf. 13. fig. 6, from Zanzibar. 
Scolopsis nototcenia, sp. n., Playfair in Fish. Zanz. pi. 6. f. 2. 
Squamipinnes. 
Chfctodon, Col. Playfair describes the following new East African species 
ill Fish. Zanz.; — Ch. zanziharensis, p. 33, pi. 6. f. 1, Ch. mdanopoma^ p. 35, 
pi. 6. f. 2, and Cli. leucopleura, p. 35, pi. 6. f. 3. " 
Jlolacanthus multispinis, sp. n., Playfair, 1. c. p. 37, pi. 6. f. 4, from Zanzibar. 
Pomacanthus aureus (C. & V.) is distinct from P. paru according to Poey, 
/. c.p. 410. 
Scorpis. A new species from Port Jackson has been described by Hr. 
Steindachner as Schuettea (g. n.) scalaripinnis, Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 
1866, liii. March 8, p. 449, taf. 6. fig. 1. — The same species is described by 
Prof. Peters as Scorpis hoops, Monatsber. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, July 23, 
p. 619. D. A. L. lat. 65. — Scorpis richardsonii, described by Dr. 
Steindachner as a new species, 1. c. p. 437, taf. 6. fig. 1, is evidently not speci- 
fically different from Sc, eequipinnis (Rich.). 
Atypichthys strigatus is figured by Steindachner, 1. c. p. 436, taf. 4. fig. 2. He 
thinks that this genus ought to be referred to the closest vicinity of C/icctodon. 
NaNDIDA5. 
Catopra. Mr. Jerclon states that this is the same genus 
named by him Pristolepis, and that the speeies lately described 
by Dr. Gunther from the Malabar Coast is identical with his 
Pristolepis marginatus (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Plist. 1865, xvi. 
• p. 298). He appeals to the authority of Mr. Day, wlio in- 
tended to give it as his opinion that Pristolepis must be re- 
