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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Burmah. Surgeon Day describes seventeen new or imperfectly known 
species from Burmah. L. c. pp. 614-623. 
Orissa. The same author describes or notices 146 species from this pro* 
vince. L. c. pp. 296-310, 869-887. 
Borneo. Several remarks on freshwater fishes of this island and some other 
parts of the East-Indian archipelago, by Dr. Ed. von Martens, Wiegm. Arch, 
xxxiv. vol. 1. 
ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
Percidas. 
Acerina rossica. On a specimen from the Bukowina, Frauen- 
feld, Verh. Z.-B. Gea. Wien, 1869, p. 933. 
SeTTanus lanceolatus. Surgeon Day reiterates that this is the 
young of the fish figured by him as S. horridus — and certainly 
not oif S. suillus and S. hontoOy which have from 50 to 60 pyloric 
appendages, whilst he has discovered that caecopyloric appen- 
dages are invariably absent in S, lanceolatus. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1869, p. 512. [The Recorder has dissected a S. lanceolatus in 
the presence of Mr. Day, and shown him that numerous pyloric 
appendages are present.] 
Serranus. Mr. Day has found from 60 to 60 pyloric appendages in the 
species determined by him as S. suillus and S. hontoo, 32 in S. hexagonatus, and 
12-13 in S. sonneratii and cyanostigmatoides. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 514. 
Serranus humeralis, var. from Peru, described by Kner, Wien. Sitzgsber. 
Iviii. p. 296. 
Anthias richardsonii, sp. n., Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 429, from 
Tasmania. 
i Gmyoroge caninaj sp. n., Steindachner, Wien. Sitzgsber. lx. p. 805, Lagos. 
Oenyoroge bengalensis. Dr. Bleeker states that three species have been 
confounded under this name, viz. Labrus octovittatus (Lac.), Holoc. quinque- 
lineatus (Bl.), Holoc. bengalensis (Bl.). Versl. en Meded. Ak. Wet. Amsterd. 
iii. 1869, pp. 64-77. 
Mesoprion. Prof. Peters (Berlin. Monatsber. 1869) describes as new 
M. ehrenbergii, p. 704, Red Sea; M. argentiventrisj p. 704,' Mazatlan; and 
^ M. inermis, p. 705, Mazatlan.— guttaius, sp. n., Steindachner, 1 . c. 
p. 307, taf. 8, Mazatlan. 
Mesoprion therapon is described as a new species by Surgeon Day, from 
Ceylon and the Andaman Islands. X. c. p. 514. [It is M. decussatus.'] 
Bogota infuscata (Blytli) may be the fry of Priacanthus. Day, 1. c. p. 616. 
Priacanthus niphonius is the type of Pseudopriacanthus, Bleeker, Versl. en 
Meded. Ak. Wet. Amsterd. I860, p. 241. 
Ambassis notatus (Blyth)=:.4. baculis (H. B.). Day, l.c. p. 615. 
Ambassis. Surgeon Day gives diagnoses of species which he has deter- 
mined as A. altUf phula, dussumieH, namUy and lala. L. c. pp. 297 & 298. 
Ambassis brevipinnis, Kner, Wien. Sitzgsber. Iviii. p. 298, taf. 1. fig. 2. 
Pristipomatid^. 
Therapon. Kner (Wien. Sitzgsber. Iviii. p. 299) figures Th. argenteus^ 
var. P, taf. 1. fig; 3, and Th. unicolor j var. ?, taf. 2. fig. 4. 
