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June 1955* 
■y. Henry W# Fowler 
Aoadeny of Xlatural Sciences 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Boar Fowlers 
The IS# and the drawings of lantern fishes 
■which you had borrowed arrived this afternoon and 1 ©xa 
writing to let you linear, as you requested# 
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The mm genus Leplpsenes which you Include 
.in the IS# fear Psenes pelluoidus# 1ms, 1 find, recently 
been described "by 'J 1 *L* 'fi#' oradMi in Trans* Key* Soo* So* 
tfrica, 22, 1934, as l^pyriohthys* l have changed this 
in your HE# • 
I not© that you have entirely omitted the 
peculiar genus and species Xenogryam oarinatua Waite 
from your MS*, although you include many extralimital 
G-empylids, and this one is known from wd Howe Island, 
to Japan and California, thus surely entering your 
range* You also give no mention of Centrolppfaaa oali- 
fo mious K, Hobbs, though erfcralimltal bentrolophidfc 
"S*V'treated • Neither do I find mention of Psenes 
paolficuB, th© type of whioh, together with tlifftT ■of 
cHT oa^'x^rnious, Is here available on the shelf* I have 
also" corrocV©? a few misspellings of names I have noticed 
such as Botanies for Bfceniae, them# I have not attempted 
to go thrm"g¥ ■feKo whole Yi *~ 
ha your key, .Yonogramna would fall in the 
Scomberonoridae, though it" Isis' no close relation with .any 
member of th© family, belonging,rather, near Ruvettus * 
t is is on account of your using the surely superficial 
character of th© caudal keel for family distinction, rather 
than the more diagnostic structure of the caudal base# 
I believe you ought to go over the MS* personally some time 
and insert those things# A careful check-up of the Zoological 
Record will doubtless show others needing insertion* 
Yours sincerely, 
Asst# Curator Fishes# 
