5 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
Africa. 
Dambeck, C. Die Verbreitung del* Siisswasser- und Wanderfische in 
Africa. Ber. Vers. Naturw. 1. pp. 179 & 180. 
Reichenow mentions a few fishes from the Loango Coast Expedition 
which had been omitted by Peters, describing a Pipe-fish as new ; SB. 
nat. Fr. 1878, p. 92. 
Mobius obtained 176 species of fishes in Mauritius, and 22 from the 
Seychelles. He has described 6 species as new. Schr. Yer. Schlesw. 
Holst, ii. p. 113. 
Yarhand. 
>AY, P. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission. Ichthyology. 
Calcutta : 4to, pp. 1-25, pis. i.-v. 
The new species were recorded last year \cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. Pisces, p. 4]. 
In general remarks on the freshwater-fishes of India, the author arrives 
at the conclusion that a peculiar group of Carps (^Schizothoracince) has 
spread almost due east and west from the cold and elevated regions of 
Eastern Turkistan, its southern progress having been barred by the 
Himalayas. Looking to the south, he finds that a wave of tropical forms 
of fishes has, at a pre-historic period, expanded over that portion of the 
globe where the Nicobars, Andamans, and the most southern portions of 
the continent of Asia and the islands of the Malay Archipelago now are, 
and that this fish-fauna has its progress northward arrested by some cause 
at or near where the Himalayas now exist and mark the division between 
the fish-fauna of India and that of Turkistan. 
Bleeker, P. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes orientales N^erlan daises. 
Livr. 36 [ix. pp. 41-80, pis. ccccxi.-ccccxx.]. 
The letterpress of this part is occupied with ’the descriptions of the 
Chcetodontidoe continued [c/*. Zool. Rec. xiv. Pisces, p. 4], and the com- 
I mencement of the Nandidce. The plates issued with it are Scorpcenidce, 
j pis. i.-vii., and PlatycepTiali, pis. i.-iii. 
j The Recorder understands that no arrangements have been made 
j for continuing the publication of this work. It may be remarked 
j that the late author's practice of affixing his own name to species 
which he had merely ranged under a new genus, greatly diminishes the 
j usefulness for immediate reference of plates which were always issued 
I apart from the text to which they belonged, as it is manifestly impos- 
' sible to refer to them with certainty, or to state whether such species 
were figured for the first time, or otherwise. 
Day, F. Fishes of India. Part iv. London: 4to, pp. 653-778, pis. 
cxxxiv.-cxcv . 
This work is now brought to a conclusion. The present part contains 
the continuation of the Cyprinidce from the genus Catla, Clupeidce, Chiro- 
centridce, Notopteridce, Symbranchidce, Murcenidce, the orders Lophohranchii 
and Plectognathi, and the Choudropterygian fishes. The work is pro- 
i ceded by an introduction occupying nine pages. 
India. 
