16 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
Blenniid^:. 
Blennius pantherinus, C. & V. Note on the type specimen ; Jordan, 
P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 544. . 
Scartella , n. g., having the free gill membranes of Blennius and the 
even teeth of Isesthes ; for S. microstoma , Poey ; id. t. c. p. 50. 
Glinus johnstoni , n. sp., Saville-Kent, Rep. Fish. Tasrn. 1886, p. 13, 
Tasmania. 
Acanthoclinus, n. g. Body elongate, compressed, covered -with cycloid 
scales; mouth rather broadly cleft, each jaw with an outer series of 
conical teeth with smaller ones behind; palate toothed. Dorsal very 
long, simple, entirely spinose ; anal with two spinose rays ; ventrals 
jugular, few-rayed ; cephalic tentacles ; gill - opening very broad ; 
branchiostegals, six ; lateral line interrupted. Mocquard, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (7) x, p. 18. A. chaperi. sp. n., id. t. c. p. 19, Bay of Guanta, 
Venezuela. 
Lumpenus lampetriformis , Walb. On its occurrence on the north coast 
of Scotland ; notes on its habits, food, and the ground it frequents ; G. 
Sim, J. Linn. Soc. xx, p. 38. L. medius , Rhdt. : note by Lutken, Kara- 
Havets Fiske, p. 12. 
SPHYR2ENID2E. 
Lanioperca mordax, Gthr., described and figured by McCoy, Prodr. 
Zool. Viet. pi. cxv. 
Erisichte, Cope, and Brotosphyrccna , Leidy : which name has priority ? 
Davies, Geol. Mag. (3) iii, p. 141 ; Cope, t. c. p. 239. 
ATHERINIDiE. 
Atherina martinica , C. & V., and boscii , C. & V. Notes on the type 
specimens ; Jordan, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 530. 
MuGILIDjE. 
Mugil braziliensis , Ag., = M. liza, C. & V. ; Jordan, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
1886, p. 530. 
Gastrosteimd. 
A review of the American species, by C. H. Eigenmann, P. Ac. Philad. 
1886, pp. 233-252. 
Gastrosteus spinachia, L. On its nest and development ; Prince, Rep. 
Brit. Ass. 1885, p. 1093. 
Mobius, K. Ueber die Eigenschaften und den Ursprung der Schleim- 
faden des Seestichlingsnest. Arch. mikr. Anat. xxv, pp. 554-563, 
pi. xxii ; and Biol. Centralbl. v, pp. 647 & 648. 
The kidney of the male fifteen-spined Stickleback acts as a spinneret. 
