faun;p:. 
Pisces 6 
Indo- China. 
Sauvage, E. Consideratious sui^lK Fauue Ichthyologique des eaux 
douces de I’Asie et en particulier de I’lndo-Chine. Assoc. Fr. (1877) 
1878, pp. 1-5. with map. 
The ichthyological fauna of Indo-Ohina, imperfectly known a few 
years since, has been much added to by the recent collections of Jullien 
Harmand in Cochin-China, Siam, Laos, and Cambodia. Only 7 out 
of 61 species are common to India and Indo-China, the affinities being 
with Borneo, J ava, and Sumatra, the species of Cyprinidm being identical, 
so as to lead to the conclusion that at a recent geological period a com- 
plete communication existed. 
New species of Siluridm and Cyprinidm described ; Sauvage, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (7) ii. pp. 233-241. 
The same author describes some new Pleuronectidm, of the genera 
Synaptura and Cynoglossus^ from Cochin-China and Laos ; 1. c. pp. 92-95. 
China. 
E. Sauvage describes some new species of Cyprinidce and Cohitidince^ 
ftom China, sent by A. David & Dabry de Thiersant since 1874 ; Bull. 
Soc. Philom. (7) ii. pp. 86-90. 
Japan. 
H. Batson Joyner’s collection has furnished some new species, and 
also further confirmation of the fact that there exists great similarity 
between the marine fauna of temperate J apan and that of the Mediter- 
ranean and adjacent parts of the Atlantic, there being 8 species in this 
collection which occur in both seas ; A. Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) i. 
pp. 485-487. 
Australia. 
JouAN, H. Quelques mots sur la Faune Ichthyologique de la cote Nord- 
est d’Australie et du Detroit de Torres compar^e ^ celle de la 
Nouvelle-Caledonie. Mem. Soc. Cherb. (3) xxi. pp. 328-335. 
In this paper an attempt is made to identify some of the fishes described 
as new species by Alleyne & Macleay [see Zool. Rec. xiii. Pisces^ p. 4], with 
species described by the author in 1861, and with some other known 
species. The insufficiency of the descriptions furnished by the two writers 
referred to has been remarked upon elsewhere [supra, Reptilia, p. 3], and 
though some of these determinations are doubtless correct, they amount 
in other cases to plausible guesses rather than certainty. 
New or little known Australian fishes are described by Castelnau, 
P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pp. 225-248, pis. ii. & iii., iii. pp. 140-143, 
also in ‘Fishes of the Norman River,’ 1. c. pp. 41-51 ; and by Mac- 
leay, New Fishes from Port Jackson and King George’s Sound, 1. c. 
pp. 33-37, pis. ii.-v., and The Fishes of Port Darwin, 1. c. pp. 344-369, 
pis. vii.-x. In the last paper, 21 species are given as new. 
New Zealand. 
Observations on New Zealand Fishes by F. E. Clarke, J* von Haast, 
