PISCES. 
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Second group Salangina/ 
15. Salanx (Ouv.), with 2 species. 
Salmo. Dr. I Steindaclmer has determined three species in the Pyrenean 
peninsula as S. fario and 8. solar in Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien^ liii. 1806, 
p. 203 ; and as S. trutta, ibid. liv. 1806, p. 22. 
Dr. Gilpin has described the Salmonoids of Nova Scotia, ProCi «&; Trans. Nov. 
Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. 1866, pp. 76-91. He distinguishes five species, deter- 
mined as S. solar, S. fontinalis, S. canadensis (Ham. Smith), S. gloverii 
(Girard), and conjinis (Dekay) = S. adirondicus (Norris). 
Argentina lioglossa (Cuv.) has received a generic name from M. Guichenot, 
Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine-et-Loire, ix. Ichthyol. p. 7. 
. CLUPEIDiE. 
Alosa. Dr. Daniell states that he has successfully introduced the Ame- 
rican Shad into the Alabama Diver. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1866, 
pp. 236-237. 
Alosa malayana, sp. n., Bleeker, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1806, p. 294, 
from Java imd Sumatra. 
Clupeoides hypselosoma, sp. n., Bleeker, 1. c, p. 293, from Borneo. 
Pellona, Dr. Bleeker (/. c.) describes Ilisha macrog aster, sp. \i., from 
Borneo, p. 300 ; and Ilisha nov^cida (C. & V.), p. 302. 
^4 Meletta petenensis, !^p. n., and M, libertatis, sp. n., Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1866, p. 603, from Guatemala. 
JEngi'aulis. On the Cuban species described by Cuv. & V^. see Poey, I^p. 
fis.-nat. Ci^. i. pp. 378-381 j he describes two new species,'^ j&. brevis anT^. 
productus.—Engraulis mysticctus, sp. n., GUnther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, 
p. 004, from Panama. 
Stolephorus tollingeri (Blkr.), St. heterolobus (Diipp.) are redescribed by 
Bleeker, I, c. pp. 303 & 305. Stolephorus (Tht'yssa) valenciennesi, sp. n., 
Bleeker, 1. c. p. 306. J 
Pristigaster macrops, sp. n., and P. argenteus, sp. n., Gunther, Proc. Zool, 
Soc. 1866, p. 603, from Panama. 
\_Pristigaster'] Opisthopterus tartoor (C. & V.) is described by Bleeker, 1. c, 
p. 296. As a second species is described by him Opisthopterus macrognathus 
(sp. n.), p. 209, from the East-Indian archipelago. 
Megalops. Dr. Bleeker distinguishes now six species from the East-Indian 
archipelago, which he describes in Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1806, 
pp. 278-292, viz. \—M. giganteus (Shaw) = il/. atlanticus (C. & V.); M. ma- 
cropterus, sp. n., p. 284 ; M. Jilamentosus (Lac.) j M. kundinga (H. B.) = M. 
setipinnis (Rich.) ; M. cyprinoides (Brouss.) = M. mdicus (C. & V.) = M, 
macrophthalmus (Blkr.) ; M. oligolepis, sp. n., p. 291, 
Mops machnata. Dr. Gunther makes some remarks on the different struc- 
ture of the caudal rays in adult and young examples. Fish. Zanz. p. 121. 
MuRiENIDiE. 
Prof. ICner lias found an air-bladder in the Angmlloidei, 
Congroidei, and Ophisuroidei, whilst it is absent in the . Ptyo^ 
branchoidei, Gymnothoracoidei, and Symbranchi, Its form and 
