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not very superficially consulted the works containing descrip- 
tions of the fish, and particularly Valenciennes^s account, he 
would have found that this amalgamation, be it correct or erro- 
neous, was not made by the Recorder, but by the ichthyologist 
just mentioned; and indeed, from the material then in his 
possession, Valenciennes could hardly have done otherwise. We 
also are inclined to think that the fish figured in the ^ Regne 
Anim. 111.^ pi. 31. fig. 2, ought to be eliminated from the syn- 
onymy of C. carmichadis ; but, anyhow, it cannot be identified 
with the Chilian fish described by Valenciennes (ix. p. 490), or 
by Gay (w^ho copies the account given by Valenciennes), this 
fish having as short a pectoral fin as the true C, carmichaelis. 
It is uncertain what fish is represented by that figure, and im- 
probable that it is the same mentioned by Valenciennes as 
having been received from Gay. Prof. Kner has described and 
figured a specimen from the island of St. Paul ; and now, as Car- 
michaePs fish has been really rediscovered, it is possible to give 
a decided opinion about it. It is most closely allied to the 
Chilian species described by Valenciennes, and appears to differ 
from it, not in the length of the pectoral (as stated by Prof. 
Kner), but in the number of scales of the lateral line, having 
55-58 scales, instead of 45. The synonymy, therefore, will 
stand thus : — 
1. CJurtodon monodactylus (Carmich.)= Chilodact carmichaelis (0. &. V. v. 
p. 3G0 ; Kner, 1. c. taf. 6. fig. 1). 
2. Chilodactylus knerii, sp. n. = Ch. carmichaelis (C. & V. ix. p. 490 ; cop. by 
Gay). 
3. Chil. gayi (Kner, 1. c. p. 92; sp. incerta)= Ch. carmichaelis (Cuv. Regne 
An. Poiss. pi. 31. fig. 2). 
' Mendosoma elongatum (Kner) is fully described in Novar, Fisch. p. 92, 
taf. 6. fig. 2. 
Nematodactylus concinnus is described by Kner, 1. c. p. 94. 
Latris hecateia, ibid. p. 96. 
Cirrhites punctatus (C. & V.) is described by Dr. Sleeker, Nederl. Tydschr. 
Dierk. iii. 1865, pp. 174-176 ; it is found in the sea off the island of Reunion 
and has palatine teeth, consequently it is a Cirrhitichthys. However, Dr. 
Sleeker calls now, with Mr. Gill, a part of the species of his former genus 
Cirrhitichthys Cirrhites, and a part of his former Cirrhites Amhlycirrhitus. 
ScOllP^NIDiE. 
Sehastes norvcgicus occurs on the south-western coast of Spitzbergen. 
Malmgren, QSfvers. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1865, p. 508. 
Sehastes marmoratus. Some remarks by Kner, Novar. Fisch. p. 114. 
Scorpam^ Prof. Kn^ has made remarks on the followir^ species : — Sc. 
isilieiips. Sc. plumieri,Sc. cruenta,Sc. bandanensis (? Slkr.), Sc. oxycephalus 
X.c.pp. 114-118. 
hrasiliensi 
(Slkr.),*^ diaholus (PC. & V.). 
