28 Pisces 
V. PISCES. 
ClUPEIDAE. 
Trickosoma, Swains. ( = Thrissa, Gray, nee Raf.). Genus defined by 
Rutter, P. Ac. Philad. 1897, p. 64 ; T. addon , sp. n., id. ibid. p. 65, 
Swatow, China. 
Spratelloides robustus , sp. n., Douglas-Ogilby, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 
xxii, p. 64, Coast of New South Walos. 
Kowala castelnaui } sp. n., Douglas-Ooilby, t. c., p. 66, Coast of Now 
South Wales. 
Hyperlophince , n. subfam., for Clupeids with dorsal and abdominal serrature, 
viz. Potamalosa , D. Ogilby, and Hyperlophus , D. Ogilby, which genera 
are defined. Douglas-Ogilby, t. c. p. 69. Hyperlophus copii , sp. n., 
id. ibid. p. 72, Coast of New South Wales. 
Stolephorus productus, Poey, described by Jordan & Rutter, P. Ac. 
Philad. 1897, p. 96; S. robertsi and astilbe , spp. nn., iid. ibid. p. 95, 
Jamaica. 
ALEPOCEPHALIDiE. 
Ericara, g. n., with small, perfectly smooth scales, wide cranium, project- 
ing snout, deeply cleft mouth, uniserial and acrodont teeth on vomer 
and anterior portion of palatines, and dorsal and anal of moderate 
extent and opposite each other; E. salmonea , sp. n., Gill & Townsend, 
P. Soc. Washington, xi, p. 232, Bering Sea, 1771 faths. 
Halosaurida:. 
Echidnocephalus trosekelii , v. d. Marck (foss.), described and figured by 
A. S. Woodward, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 268, pi. xviii. 
GYMNOTIDiE. 
Gymnotus electncus } L. On a very large specimen from British Guiana: 
Queloh, Naturo, lv, p. 508. 
Sternopygus macrops , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xx, p. 305, 
British Guiana. 
MURAAIIDA:. 
B, Grassi & S. Calandruccio, Rend. Acc. Lincei (5) vi, p. 43, remark on 
the larval forms of Mediterranean Mursenoids. 
Anguilla vulgaris , Turt. Further notes on the reproduction : Southwell, 
Tr. Norfolk Soc. vi, p. 262. Grassi & Calandruccio, Giorn. ital. 
Pesca e Acquic. 1897, Nos. 7 & 8, and Mon. Zool. ital. viii, pp. 233 & 
234, summarise the results of their observations on the reproduction 
and metamorphosis of the Eel. New observations on the larva : 
Grassi & Calandruccio, Atti Acc. Lincei (5) vi, p. 239 and Nature, 
lvi, p. 85, figg. On the larval stages : Facciola, Riv. ital. Sci. Nat. 
xvii, p. 116. F. W. Seelig reviews recent observations on the Eel : 
Abh. Yer. Kassel, lxi, p. 47. 
Conger vulgaris , Cuv. On the eggs: FacciolA, Riv. ital. Sci. Nat. xvii, 
p. 92. 
Scolenchelys , g. n., for Murcenichthys australis , Macleay. Douglas-Ogilby, 
P. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxii, p. 216. 
