THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Pisces 17 
P. P. C. Hoek (see p. 7) writes on hermaphroditism in Fishes. The 
following Mediterranean Percidce and Spar idea are found to be constantly 
hermaphrodite : — Serranus cabrilla, S. scriba, Centropristis hepatus , 
Chrysophrys auratus, Box salpa , Charax puntazzo, Sargu-s rondeletii , 
S. annularis , S. salviani, Pagellus mormyrus. 
On the food of some Fishes in the English Channel ; Sauvage, Ann. 
Stat. aquic. Boulogne-s.-M. i, 1893, pp. 39-51. 
W. Haacke, “ Die Schopfung der Tierwelt” (Leipzig & Vienna : 1893, 
8vo) deals with the evolution and distribution of Fishes, pp. 344-381. . 
T. Gill, Science, xxii, 1893, p. 345, offers some remarks on certain \ 
groups of Freshwater Fishes and their geographical distribution. 
III.— FAUNAE. 
Europe. 
Great Britain and Ireland : Catalogue of local lists of Fishes, arranged 
under counties ; M. Christy, Zoologist (3) xvii, 1893, pp. 252-264. 
Scandinavia : F. A. Smitt supplies a new, revised and completed edi- 
tion of Fries and Ekstrom’s “ History of Scandinavian Fishes,” illustrated 
by W. von Wright. Part i. Stockholm and London : 1893, 4to. 
Denmark : Notes on the pelagic life in Fseno Sound, Denmark ; 
Petersen, Report of the Danish Biological Station, hi. Copenhagen: 
1893, pp. 1-15. 
Gulf of Riga : List of the Fishes, by G. SciHveder, KB. Ver. Riga, 
xxxvi, 1893, pp. 33-35. 
Germany : List of the Fishes of Artland ; MOllmann, Jahresber. Ver. 
Osnabruck, 1891-92, pp. 228-232. On the German names of some of the 
Fishes of the Main ; Buxbaum, Zool. Garten, xxxiv, 1893, p. 233. The 
same author, t. c. pp. 11-13, reports on the migrations of Fishes in this 
river during the summer of 1892. 
Bay of Biscay : On the Food-fishes; Roche, Ann. Sci. Nat. (7) xv, 
1893, pp. 41-53. 
Portugal: On some Freshwater Fishes; L. Vieira, Ann. Sci. nat. 
(Porto) i, 1894, No. 2, pp. 1-18. 
Italy : C. Lopez, Cenni sulla Fauna dell’ Abruzzo Teramano, pp. 33-39, 
remarks on the ichthyological fauna of the Abruzzi and the correspond- 
ing coast of the Adriatic. 
Dalmatia : G. Kolombatovic, Novi Nadodatci, pp. 14-27, remarks on 
some Fishes. 
Canary I. : See Africa. 
Asia. 
Bay of Bengal : On the Deep-sea collection made by the ‘ Investigator,’ 
1892-93 ; A. Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxii, 1893, pp. 177-184, pi. ix. 
Shan States : On a collection made by Mr. E. W. Oates ; Boulenger, 
Ann. N. II. (6) xii, 1893, pp. 198-203. 
