20 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
Rita grandiscutata , n. sp. (foss.), Lydekker, t. c. p. 251, pi. xxxvii, fig. 3, 
Siwaliks of the Punjab. 
Noturus nocturnus , n. sp., Jordan & Gilbert, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 
p. 6, Arkansas. 
Pimelodus guirali, n. sp., Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) x, p. 162, 
River San Benito, W. Africa. 
Arius froggatti , p. 14, and spatula , p. 15, n. spp., Ramsay & Donglas- 
Ogilby, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i, Strickland River, New Guinea. 
Hemipimelodus dayi , p. 16, and crassilabris, p. 18, n. spp., Ramsay & 
Douglas-Ogilby, t. c., Strickland River, New Guinea. 
Bagarius yarelli , Sykes. On a fossil skull from the Siwaliks of Nahan; 
Lydekker, t. c. p. 254, pi xxxvi, fig. 1. 
Callichthys littoralis, Hanc. On the nesting ; J. A. M. Yipan, P. Z. S. 
1886, p. 330. 
On a Siluroid spine from the Pliocene of near Perpignan ; Sauvage, in 
Depdret, Description g^ologique du Bassin Tertiaire du Roussillon 
(Paris : 1885, 8vo), p. 223, pi. iv, fig. 7. 
ScOPELIDjE. 
Saurus synodus , C. & V. Note on the type specimens ; Jordan, P. U. S. 
Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 525. 
Benthosaurus , n. g., closely allied to Bathysaurus and Bathypierois, 
resembling the latter in nearly every particular save in the structure of 
the pectoral fins, which are normal. B. grallatoi', n. sp., Goode & Bean, 
Bull. Mus. C. Z. xii, p. 168, Gulf of Mexico and N. Atlantic. 
Scopelus muelleri. Note on a specimen captured oif Greenland ; Day, 
Nature, xxxix, p. 571. 
CYPRINIDiE. 
Emery, C., & Simon i, L. Recherches sur la ceinture scapulaire des 
Cyprino'ides. Arch. Ital. Biol, vii, pp. 390-394. 
Carassius vulgaris , n. var. oblongus , Warpachowski, Zapiski Ak. Nauk 
St. Petersb. lii, p. 54, Gov. Kasan, Russia. 
Barbus guirali , n. sp., Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) x, p. 163, 
River San Benito, W. Africa. 
Puntius tholonianus, n. sp., id. t. c. p. 164, River San Benito, W. Africa. 
Leuciscus delineatus , Sieb. : on its occurrence at Antwerp ; E. Gens, 
Bull. Ac. Belg. (3) ii, p. 150. L. lucidus n. var. ilmenensis , Warpachow- 
ski, Zapiski Ak. Nauk St. Petersb. liii, p. 63, fig., Lake Ilmen. 
Phoxinus stagnalis , n. sp., Warpachowski, Zool. Anz. ix, p. 76, Gov. 
Kasan, Russia ; figured in Zapiski Ak. Nauk. St. Petersb. lii, p. 53. 
Bybopsis aestivalis n. var. marconis, Jordan & Gilbert, P. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. 1886, p. 22, Rio San Marcos, Texas. 
Notropsis sabince, n. sp., uJ. t. c. p. 15, Sabine River, Texas. 
ChARACINIDjE. 
Sagemehl, M. Die accessorischen Branchialorgane von Githarinus. 
Morph. JB. xii, pp. 307-323, pi. xviii. 
