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of Poljakow, Potanir, and Prejewalski are described, many new species 
being characterized. Poljakow’s collection was made in the Balkash 
region, including Syssykkul and Alakul and the rivers flowing into those 
lakes. This collection, though rich in individual specimens, yielded few 
species which had not been obtained by Dr. Schrenck forty years pre- 
viously in the same waters, viz., only two forms of Phoxinus, one of which 
must be regarded as a. mere variety. A list of the 10 species hitherto 
received from Lake Balkash, Syssykkul, and Alakul is given on 
p. ‘287. Prejewalski also brought two new species of Cohitidince from the 
Balkash district, but the main part of the collections made during his 
second expedition is from Lob-Nor, the Lower Tarim and northern 
tributaries of the Tarim, the Greater and Lesser Juldus, and Balgan- 
taigol rivers. They consist of 11 species, 8 true Cyprinoids and 3 Cohi- 
tidince, mostly new. This second expedition Avas begun in the autumn of 
1876, the winter months being passed in the Lob-Nor district, and the 
return to Kuldja effected in the spring of 1877. The third collection, 
ihat^of Potanin, was made principally in the steppe-region on the southern 
side of the Altai range ; it comprised but few specimens, obtained under 
circumstances of considerable difficulty. 
A short notice of fishes of the Tuapse river, Caucasus, mostly similar 
to those of S.E. Europe, and especiallj^ the Crimea ; K. Kessler, Bull. 
Mosc. liv. pt. i. pp. 424-428. 
Day, F. Geographical Distribution of Indian Freshwater Fishes. Pt. hi. 
(Conclusion). J. L. S. xiv. pp. 634-579. 
Anderson, J. Zoological and Anatomical Researches in Yunnan. See 
Rcptilia, p. 5. 
The part devoted to Ichthyology occupies pp. 863-869. 
Descriptions of neAv or little known Chinese Fish by Bleeker are pub- 
lished, bringing the ichthyological fauna of China to the number of 1030 ; 
Verb. Ak. Amst. xviii. pp. 17, 2 pis. 
Bleeker has also enumerated the known Fishes of Japan (646) and 
added 3 supposed new ones; 1. c. 31 pp. 3 pis. 
Some contributions to the Ichthyology of Japan ; Hilgendorf, SB. 
uat. Fr. 1879, pp. 78-81 & 105-111. 
Sumatra. 
D. Vinciguerra publishes his determinations of the fishes collected by 
O. Beccari in Sumatra in 1878, 67 specimens of 12 species, all known and 
with the exception of two, already recorded from Sumatra. Ann. Mus. 
Genov, xiv. pp. 384-397. 
Australia. 
On anew Ganoid Fish from Queensland; Castelnau, p. 164, pi. xix.A : 
On a species of Ampfiisile from the Palau Islands ; W. Macleay, p. 165, 
pi. xix. B : On the Plagiostomata of the Pacific ; N. de Miklucho- 
Maclay & W. Macleay, pp. 306-333, pis. xxii.-xxvi., Pt. i., the Cestra- 
ciontidm : Essay on the Ichthyology of Port Jackson ; Castelnau, 
pp. 347-401. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. In the first of these papers 
