28 Pisces . 
PISCES. 
Cynoglossus carpenteri , p. 287, pi. xviii, fig. 1 , and intermedius, p. 288, 
n. spp., id. t. c., Bay of Bengal. C. versicolor , off Orissa coast, and 
prcecisuSy off Gan jam coast, n. spp., id. t. c. p. 442. C. lathy bius f 
n. sp., Gilbert, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, p. 123, Pacific coast of 
N. America. 
Aphoristia gilesii , p. 293, pi. xvii, fig. 2, and wood-masoni , . p. 294, 
pi. xvii, fig. 1 , n. spp., Alcock, J. A. S. B. lviii, Bay of Bengal, 193— 
490 fath. 
^ Scianectes, n. g. Jaws and dentition equal on both sides ; dorsal fin 
commencing before the eye, on the snout ; body pyriform and delicate ; 
mouth small, the length of the maxillary being less than one third of the 
length of the head ; teeth minute, in a single series in both jaws ; vomerine 
teeth ; eyes on the left side and close together ; all the rays of the vertical 
fins simple, elongated, weak, and filamentous 5 scales minute, membranous, 
and deciduous ; lateral line with a curve above the pectoral ; gill-mem- 
branes united at the throat ; gill-rakers distant and short. S. lophoptera , 
n. sp., id. t. c, p. 284, Bay of Bengal. S. tyaoropfytfialmus, n. sp f , id. t. c. 
p. 292, pi. xvi, fig, 4, S.W. of Akyab, 100 fatfi. 
PHYSOSTOMI, 
SlfiURIM. 
/ Eigenmann, 0, H. & R. S. A Revision of the South American Nema- 
tognatkiy or Cat-Fishes. Occasional Papers of the California Academy 
of Sciences, i, 508 pp. 
The American Siluroids are referred to five families -.—Bunooephalidce, 
Diplomystidce , Siluridce t Hypophthalmidce, iPygididce. This classification 
Tfas proposed in a paper pubjis^ed previously, viz. : 
^ Eigenm 4 NNj C. H. The Eyolutjon of the Cat-Fishes. Zoe, i, pp, 10-15. 
Diplomystes is raised to family r^nk on acoount of its dentiferous 
maxillary, 
Silurus; glynis, L. : on an albino ; Hi^gendorf, SB. nat.' Fr. 1890, 
p. 17. S. ( Parasjlurus ) aiistotelis (A g. MS.), n. sp., Garman, Bull. Ess. 
Inst, xxii, p. 50, j^carnania, Greece. 
Macrones , Dqm. : synopsis of the Burmese species ; Yinciguerra, Ann. 
Mus. Genov. (2) ix ? p. 89. M l rufescem, p. 226, pi. vii, fig. 2, and dayi } 
p. 230, pi. vii, fig. 3, n. spp r , id. t. c., Burma, 
Liocassis moeschii, n. sp., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 39, Sumatra. 
Ictalurus dugesi } Bean : note on the poison apparatus ; Duges, Nat. 
Mex. (2) i, p. 405, pi. xxvii. 
Olyra, McCl. : synopsis of the (3) species ; Yinciguerra, Ann. 
Mus. Genov. (2) ix, p. 68. O. elongata, Gthr., figured by id. t. c. 
pi. vii, fig. 1. 
Exostoma, Blyth : synopsis of the species ; id. t. c. p. 260. E. macrop- 
