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i interesting, all being new and belonging to the Chromides and 
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i 
j Gunther, A. Report on a collection of fishes from Palestine. 
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19 species of fishes from the Jordan and the Lake of Galilee, three 
! of them being undescribed. Remarkable is the presence of a 
Blenny, and of four or five species of Chromis and Hemichromis j 
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