FAUNiE. 
Pisces. 3 
Reinh,), L sarsi [Zool. Eec. 1871, p. 102], and Gohius orca and scor- 
pioides [Zool. Rec. 1874, p. 100], recently found by Winther in Den- 
mark. The different forms of Salmo and Coregonus are referred to a few 
species only. Descriptive aud geographical details, with observations 
bearing upon the identification and synonymy of the different species 
contribute to make this a work which will be constantly consulted by 
the student of northern fishes. 
Gervais, H., & Boulart, R. Les Poissons ; Synonymie, Description, 
Moeurs, Frai, Peche, Iconographie des especes composant plus parti- 
culieremeut la Faune Fiau 9 aise. i. Poissons d’eau douce. Paris: 
1876, 8vo, 232 pp., GO chromotype pis., aud 66 vignettes. 
A work for popular use on the fishes of France : contains an appendix 
on those of Italy; also a preface on classification, by P. Gervais. 
A. Gunther has drawn up a list of Fishes of the Mediterranean 
which are identical with West Indian and Japanese Fishes. Of 29 
Japanese species, 18 are also West Indian, and 22 Mediterranean. J. 
Linn. Soc. xii. p. 108. 
F. Brito Capello gives a third short appendix to the Catalogue of 
Fishes of Portugal ; J. Sci. Lisb. 1876, pp. 165 & 166. 
Trois has compiled a Catalogue of the Fishes of the Adriatic with 
reference to the collection in the Venetian Institute ; they number 261, 
and are arranged tabularly, with particulars of size, spawning-time, &c. 
Atti 1st. Yenet. i. p. 559. • 
Western Africa. 
W. Peters gives an account of the fishes collected by the late 
Dr. Buchholz in Western Africa' (MB. Ak. Berl. 1876, pp. 244-252), 
including Pantodon, a remarkable new genus of Malacopterygii ahdo- 
minales (p. 195). 
Reichenow describes a Ctenopoma and a Trachynotus from the coast 
of Loango, collected during the German Expedition. SB. nat. Fr. 1875, 
pp. 146-148. 
Mauritius and the Seychelles. 
W. Peters enumerates 189 fishes collected by Dr. K. Mobius, de- 
scribing several new species ; MB. Ak. Berl. 1876, pp. 435-447. 
Asia. 
Bleeker, P. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. 
Livrns. 30-32, pis. cccxlix.-ccclxxx. Amsterdam: 1876, fo. [see 
Zool. Rec. xii. p. 107]. 
Parts 30 & 31 (vol. vi.) contain the continuation of the Percoidei, 
pp. 41-121 ; part 32 (vol. vii.) new pagination, contains the text of the 
Percoidei Sparifornies, Pristipomatini, Dipterygonotini, and Lutjanini, 
pp. 1-48. With these parts, the following plates have been issued : — Per- 
coidei,Tp\%. Ixxi.-lxxxviii., Chcetodontoidei, pis. i.-xviii., TracMchthyoidei 
(^Berycidce) pis. i.-vi. 
