6 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
Dollo, L., & Storms, R. Sur les T51dosteens du Rupelien. Zool. 
Anz. xi, pp. 265-267. 
Bassani, F. Sui Fossili e sull’ eU degli Schisti bituminosi triasici di 
Besano in Lombardia. Communicazione preliminare. Atti Soc. 
Ital. xxix, pp. 15-72, 1886. [Omitted from Zool. Rec. xxiii.] 
Koken, E. Neue Untersuchungen an tertiaren Fisch-Otolithen. Z. 
geol. Ges. 1888, pp. 274-305, pis. xvii-xix. 
On Fish-otolithes from the Lower Tertiary of North America. The 
following are described as new under the provisional term Otolithus : — 
0. ( Carangidarum ) americanus , 0. ( Apogonidarum ) hospes , 0. ( Pagelli ) 
elegantulus, 0. ( Sparidarum ) insuetus , 0. ( Scicenidarurn ) radians . gemma , 
eporrectus , claybornensis, intermedius, similis , and decipiens, 0 . ( Trachini ) 
Icevigatus. 0. ( Cottklarum ) sulcatus, 0. ( Triglce ) cor, 0. (Cepolai) comes, 
O. ( Mugilidarum ) debilis , 0. ( Gadidarum ) meyeri, elevatus , and mucro- 
natus, 0. ( Platessce ), sector, 0. (Solece) glaber, 0. ( Congeris ) brevior. 
Davis, J. W. On Fossil-Fish Remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo- 
Tertiary Formations of New Zealand. Tr. R. Dubl. Soc. (2) iv, 
pp. 1-48, pis. i-vii. 
PALJnCHTHYES. 
Douglas-Ogilby, J. Catalogue of the Fishes in the Collection of the 
Australian Museum. Part i : Recent Palaeichthyan Fishes. 
Sydney : 1888, 8vo, 26 pp. 
A list of 109 species. 
ICHTHYOTOML 
The name Pleuracanthules is proposed for an Order or Subclass, repre- 
senting a group ancestral to and synthetic of the Plagiostomes, Chimsa- 
roids, Dipnoi, and Cartilaginous Ganoids ; to include Pleuracantlius, Ag. ; 
C. Brongniart, C.R. cvi, p. 1242. 
Pleuracanthus gaudryi, n. sp., id. ibid., and Le Nat. x, p. 178, fig., Coal- 
Measures of Commentry, France. Remarks by A. S. Woodward, Geol. 
Mag. (3) v, p. 422. 
Xenacanthus decheni , Goldf. (foss.) : note on tho pectoral fin, which 
bears considerable resemblance to that of Ceratodus ; A. Feitscd, Zool. 
Anz. xi, p. 113, fig. 
See Traquair, infra , p. 9. 
CHONDROPTERYGII. 
Garman, S. On the Lateral Canal System of the Selachia and Holo- 
cephala. Bull. Mus. C. Z. xvii, pp. 57-119, pis. i-liii. 
A comparative investigation of the canal system in the principal genera 
of Plagiostomes and Chimeeroids, from a morphological and systematic 
point of view. 
