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decidedly to the practice of regarding a character which is 
generic in one group as being of the same value in another, and 
unless the naturalists mentioned point out more important cha- 
racters than those given by Valenciennes, those genera are of 
no greater value than his Salmo, Fario, &c. At all events, the 
authors are very wrong in rejecting the prior name * Agono- 
stoma, given with a very good diagnosis by one of the best 
zoologists. 
Myxm. Prof. Kner (Novara, Fish.) describes M. elongakts (Gthr. ?) 
p. 230, and M. analis, sp. n., p. 231, taf. 10. fig. 1, from Shanghai. 
Mugil. Some notes on the teeth by Troschel, in Verhandl. ntrhist. Vereins 
Preuss. Rheinl. & Westph. 1865, 2. Sitzgsber. p. 130. 
Prof. Kner (Novara, Fisch.) has given descriptions of, or made remarks on, 
the following species : — Mugil cephalotus, p. 224 ; M. planiceps, p. 225 ; M. 
cantoris (Blkr. ?), from Madras, p. 225 ; M. ophuysenii (Bllir. ?), from Java, 
p. 226, taf. 9. fig. 2 ; M, waigiensis, p. 226 ; M. richardsonii, p. 227 ; M. 
axilla?’is (Gthr. ?), p. 227, taf. 9. fig. 3, from Shanghai j M. borneensis, p. 228; 
M. crenilahris, p. 228;"* M. crenidens, sp. n., p. 229, taf, 9. fig. 4, from Au- 
stralia. 
'1 Mugil poicilus, sp, n.. Bay, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1865, p. 33, or Fish, Malabar, 
p. 140, pi. 9, from Malabar.-^Af. cunnumhoo, sp. n., ibid. p. 141, with figure 
of head. 
GASTEROSTETDiE. 
Gasterosteus acideatus^ var. gymnurus, is found in Spain. Steindachner, 
Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1865, Nov. 3. 
Gasterosteus hracliycentrus is found in Portugal. Steindachner, Oatal. 
Pr4l. Poiss. Port. Suite, p. 1. 
-A Gasterosteus pungitius. Dr. Ransom has carefully watched the nest-building 
of this species, and describes it in (Trans. Midland Scient. Assoc.) Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1865, xvi. pp. 449-451. 
Gasterosteus micropus, sp. n.. Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1865, p. 81, 
from Kansas. 
^ FiSTULARIIDtE. 
'^Fistularia serrata and JP. tabaccaria are described by Kner, Novar. Fisch. 
pp, 238 & 239. , 
OPHIOCEPHALIDyE. 
Ophiocephalus. Prof. Kner (Novara, Fisch.) has described the following 
species: — O, punctatus, p. 233; O. gacJiua, p. 233 ; O. striatus and O. macu- 
latus, p, 234 ; O. argus^ p. 235. 
Ophiocephalus diplogramme, sp, n.. Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 36, and 
Fish. Malabar, p. 147, pi. 10, from Malabar. 
* We cannot help directing attention to the circumstance that the same 
authors, a few pages further on, expressly claim priority for the genus 
Xiph(yphorus, proposed by the Viennese ichthyologist Heckel, before Limia 
(Poey), although the latter is better and more naturally defined than the 
former. 
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