24 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
P. Z. S. 1887, p. 665. A. commersonii , Lac£p. : on development and 
paternal care ; H. VON Ihering, Biol. Centralbl. viii, p. 268. 
Tacky s: rus lentiginosus, p. 189, Panama, jordani, p. 142, Panama, longi- 
ccpkalus, p. 143, Panama, agassizii , p. 145, Rio Grande do Sul, and 
gulosi is, p. 146, Panama, n. spp., C. H. & R. S. Eigenmann, t. c. 
Ageneiosus alronasus , n. sp., iid. t. c. p. 149, loc. ?. 
Auchenipterus fordicei , n. sp., iid. t. c. p. 151, Brazil. 
Felichthys flacescens, n. sp., iid. t. c. p. 152, Rio San Francisco. 
. Trachy cor isles porosus , p. 154, and analis , p. 156, u. spp., iid. t. c ., 
Brazil. 
Hassar, n. subg., for Doras orestes , Stdr., and affinis, Stdr., iid. t. c. 
p. 158. 
Doras uranoscopus, p. 159, and spinosissimus , p. 161, n. spp., iid. t. c., 
Brazil. 
Synodontis a/ro-fischeri , n. sp., Hilgendorp, SB. nat. Fr. 1888, p. 77, 
Victoria Nyanza. 
Decapogon , n. g., for Gcdlichtlnjs adspersun , Stdr. ; C. H. & R. S. Eigen- 
mann, t. c. p. 165. 
Gorydoras hastatus , n. sp., iid. t. c. p. 166, Brazil. 
Plecostomus limosus, p. 167, Rio Grande do Sul, scabriceps , p. 168, Sao 
Matheos, seminadus , p. 169, Brazil ?, macrops , p. 170, Rio das Vellias, and 
vermicular is, p. 171, Brazil, n. spp., iid. t. c. 
Neoplecostomvs , n. subg., for Plecostomus mi crops, Stdr.; iid. t. c. p. 171. 
Bitcklandiuni diluvii , Konig (foss ). This is a Siluroid, and the earliest 
undoubted member of the family hitherto discovered ; A. S. Woodward, 
Ann. N. H. (6) ii, p. 355, and Geol. Mag. (3) v, p. 471. 
ScOPELIDjE. 
Bathy8auru8 ferox , Gthr,, described and figured by Vaielant, Expdd, 
Trav. & Talism. p. 189, pi. x, fig. 1 (see p. 385). B. oblusirosiris , n. sp., 
id. t. c. p. 136, pis. x. fig. 2, & xiv, fig. 3, Cape Verde, 3655 m. 
Bathypterois dubhis, n. sp., id. t. c. p. 124, pis. ix, fig. 1, xii, fig. 4, xiv, 
fig. 4, xv, fig. 4, Coasts of Morocco and Soudan to Canaries and Azores, 
834-1635 m. 
Scopelus elongatus , Costa : notes by Bkelotti, Atti Soc. Ital. xxxi, 
p. 225. S. veranyi , n. sp., Moreau, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) xii, p. 108, 
Nice. 
Aulopus agassizii , Bp., figured by Va I leant, t. c. pi. xii, fig. 3. 
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus, Johns., figured by Vaillant, Exped. Trav. 
& Talism. pi. ix, fig. 2. 
CyPRINIOE. 
Scaphiodon mii8catcnsi8, n. sp., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 665, 
Muscat, Arabia. 
Diptychus kesslei'i, u. sp., Russki, Zool. Jahrb., iii, p. 796, pi. xxix, 
Tschirtschik R., trib. of the Syr-Daria, Central Asia. 
