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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
/ Callionymus papilioj sp. n., GUnther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1864, xiv. p. 197, 
from Melbourne. 
Blenniid^. 
Blennius lupulus (Bonap.). Dr. Gunther considers the Blenny of the Jordan 
identical with this species. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 490. 
Xiphogadus. Dr. Bleeker has had the good fortune to rediscover the fish 
(or at least one closely allied to it) which was figured by Russell (i. pi. 33). 
It proves to be a Blennioid, near Petroscirtes. He considers it also possible 
that Nemophis of Kaup may be a fish allied to it. The characters of the 
genus would be : — Corpus alepidotum, maxime elongatum, anguilliforme, pos- 
tice valde compressum. Pinnae dorsalis, caudalis et analis unitae j dorsalis 
radiis omnibus flexilibus capite antice, analis in anteriore septima corporis 
parte incipiens. Maxillae antice dentibus conicis confertis subaequalibus, 
lateribus dente canino, inframaxillari maximo curvato. Palatum edentulum. 
Ossa suborbitalia scabra. Apertura branchialis angusta rimaeformis, ante 
basin pectoralis desinens. Pinnae ventrales graciles triradiatae ante aperturam 
branchialem insertae. B. 6. — Dr. Bleeker prefers to adopt the name of 
Xiphasia (!), and thinks that the fish observed by him may be specifically 
different from that figured by Russell ; therefore he names it Xiphasia tra- 
chypareia, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. 1864, p. 194. The same paper will be 
republished in Versl. en Mededeel. Akad. Wet. Amsterd. xvii., where the 
species will be figured. 
V ■ Myxodes eleganSf sp. n.. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. iii. p. 108, fig. 23, 
from the coast of California. D. A. 26-28. L. lat. ca 250. The 
first five dorsal spines somewhat discomiected from the others. The author 
proposes provisionally the name Gihhonsia, if this species should prove to be 
the type of a distinct genus. 
Cristiceps Jilifer, sp. n,, Steindachner, Arch, per la Zool. 1864, p. 199, from 
the Philippine Islands. 
Mr. Gill separates from this family the StichcBoidce and 
tacanthoidae as two distinct families, distinguished by the deve- 
lopment of coeca round the pylorus. The former would comprise 
Centroblennius (Gill), Leptoblennius {GiW) , Lumpemis, Anisarchus 
(g. n., typ. spec. Lumpenus medius, Rnhrdt.), Leptoclinus (Gill), 
Stichceus, Eumesogrammus (g. n., typ. spec. Btichaus prcecisus^ 
Kroyer), and Carelophus (Kroyer). The author enumerates 
nine species as occurring on the Atlantic coast of America, 
which he refers to seven of the genera named. Proc. Acad. IS at. 
Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 208. 
Centronotus gimcllus. Mr. Gill has made a detailed investigation into the 
literature and history of Ophidium imherhe, in which he demonstrates that 
the fish described by IMontagu under this name was a Centronotus gunellus, 
and the Beardless Ophidium ” of Pennant a young Eel. Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 200. 
Dr. Gunther (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 26) has founded a now genus on a 
specimen from the Pacific coast of Panama, which is not in a perfect state 
