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and more pungent than the anterior. Ventrals jugular, close together, re- 
duced to a single hifid ray. The gill-membrane is attached to the isthmus 
before the ventrals. Pseudobranchiae well developed. Intestinal tract 
abort, simple, without pyloric appendages. Air-bladder none, Notograj[ttus 
guttatusy sp, n., from Oape York. — D. 69. A. 43. 
Petroscirtes longiJiUs^ sp.n., Kner & Steindachnor, Sitzgsber, Ak, Wiss, 
Wien, 1867 (1866), liy. p. 367, fig. 6, from the Samoa Islands, 
Salarias, Prof. Kner describes (Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivi.) as new 
species : — Salarias semilineatus, p. 722, fig. 6, from the Samoa Islands [is this 
not a young S, fasciatus ?] ; and Salarias alboguttatus, p. 724, fig. 6, from the 
same locality. 
Salarias striato-maculatus is described as a new species from the Mauri- 
tius by Messrs. Kner & Steindachner, Sitzgsber, Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867 
(1866), liv, p. 868, fig, 4,- [Probably =^. dmsumierij 0, & V.; as indicated by 
the authors.] 
Blen7iophis wehbii is found on the coast of Barbadoes, Steindachner, 
Sitzgsber, Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. p. 364. 
■i JBlennophis semifasciatus, sp. n., Kner & Steindachner, 1. c. liv. p. 369, fig. 6, 
ft-om Iqui(][ue (W estern America). 
Myxodes cinnaharinus is described as a doubtfully new species by Messrs, 
Kner & Steindachner, 1. c. p. 870, from Mejillones (?). 
^ Clinus nigripinnis and'^/mz«s gillij spp. nn., Steindachner, 1. o. Ivi. pp. 861, 
862, from Barbadoes. 
Ch'isticepa rohuaiua, sp. n., Qiinther, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. xx. p.62, from 
Melbourne, 
Tripterygium hemimelaa, sp. n., Kner & Steindachner, I, c, liv. p. 371, from 
the Samoa Islands. 
\J Centronotua faaciatua. Dr. Steindachner has made the very interesting ob- 
servation that this North-Atlantic species occm’s also in the Northern Pacific 
(mouth of the Amur). L, c, Iv. p. 709, 
MASTACEMBELIDiE. 
^ Mastacemhelus cryptacanthu8y sp.n., Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 102, 
and Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 110, from the Oamaroon country, West 
Africa,— D. 24 to 30 | 100, 
Atherinid^, 
Atherina atercus muacarum is a new species from Cape York, described by 
Dr. GUnther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 64. 
Dr. Gunther, I, c., describes as new a second species fi-om Oape York, under 
the name of Atherina aignata ; but it is evidently the same which is described 
by Prof. Kner as the type of a new genus, Pseudomugil signifei'^ Novara, Fisch. 
p. 276, tab. 13. fig. 6. The specific name proposed by Prof, Kner has the 
priority. 
Nematoeentria nigrana * described as Strabo nigrofaaciatus by Kner & Stein- 
dachner, Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867 (1866), liv. pp. 372, 395, fig. 10. 
Giinther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xx. p. 66. 
4 [P] Chiroatoma heryllinum, sp. n.. Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. p. 403, 
from the Potomac River. — D. 6 | -j\. A. L. lat. 86. 
* Misprinted nigra ” in Ann. & Mag. I o, 
