^ Pisces. 
PISCES. 
pjiirope. 
Bu CoLLE'i'T has published observations on deep-sea Fishes of 10 
species collected in the North Sea Expeditions in 1876 and 1877, one 
Ly codes being described as new. Forh. Selsk. (Jhr. 1878, No. 4. 
A more extensive collection was made in the southerly portions of the 
North Sea, visited in the summer of 1878, and is described in a Preliminary 
Report ; id. 1. c. No. 14, 106 pp. It yields several new species. A larger 
general report, written in English, will be published in the autumn of 
1 880, large folio, with large plates. 
The same author gives farther descriptions of a large number of Nor- 
wegian Fishes, oj). cit. 1879, No. 1, 107 pp. 1 pi. This is a first supplement 
to his ‘‘Norges Fiske,’’ and contains all additional observations made 
between 187.0 and 1878. 
Houghton, W. British Freshwater Fishes. Illustrated with a coloured 
figure of each species, drawn from nature, by F. Lydon, and 
numerous engravings. London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: 2 vols. 
large 4to, 204 pp. 
A work on the plan of Morris’s British Birds, intended to supply 
amateur or ornamental purposes. 
Fitzinger, L. Bericht fiber die gepflogenen Erhebungen bezfiglich der 
in den beiden Seen Nieder-osterreichs, dem Erlaph- und dem Lunzer- 
Sce vorkommenden Fischarteu. SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxviii. Abth. 1 , 
pp. 696-602. 
L. Hapke contributes a second paper on the Fish and Fisheries of the 
Wieser, giving further notices of the Fishes found in its waters. Abh. 
Ver Brem. vi. pp, 577-616. [See Zool. Rec. xiv. Pisces, p. 3.] 
Materials for the Venetian fauna; A. Ninni, Atti Acc. Venet. (5) iv. 
pp. 1043, 1058, 1191. See infra, Callionymus, Zeus, and Gadus. 
Africa. 
Dambeck, 0. Die Verbreituug der Sfiss- upd Brackwasser- Fische in 
Africa. Jen. Z. Nat. xiii. pp. 404-456. 
A very elaborate memoir on the distribution of African Fishes. [See 
Zool. Rec..P/sces, p 5.] 
On the ichthyology of the Ogow4 ; Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) 
iii. pp. 90-103. 
Mauritius. 
A contribution to the ichthyological fauna of Mauritius, by Bleeker, 
adds 14 species to that fauna, and affords some revisions, and a supposed 
new species. A complete list of Mauritian Fish is also given. Verb. Ak. 
Amst. xviii. 23 pp. 3 pis. 
Asia. 
Kessler, K. Beitrage zur Ichthyologie von Ceutral-Asieu. Bull. Petersb. 
XXV. pp. 282-310, and M^l. Biol, x: pp. 233-272. 
An extensive memoir in which the materials afforded by the collections 
