26 Pisces 
V. PISCES. 
COMEPHORIDJE. 
Comephorus baikalensis , Pall. On its habits and systematic position : 
Zograf, Verh. v. Int. Zool. Congr. p. 592. 
SCORPTENIDJE. 
Scorpcena albifimbria and bergii , spp. nn., Ever Manx & Marsh, Bull. 
U. S. Fish Comm, xx, pp. 275 & 276, figg., Porto Rico. 
Pontinus beanorum , sp. n., Evermann & Marsh, t. c. p. 279, fig., Porto 
Rico. 
Choridactylodes , g. n., near Choridactylus , Rich., Gilchrist, Mar. Invest. 
S. Afr. ii, p. 101, C. natalensis , sp. n., id. ibid. p. 102, pi., v, Coast 
of Natal. 
Pterois barberi , sp. n., Steindachner, Denk. Ak. Wien lxx, p. 491, pi. iii, 
fig. 2, South Pacific. 
Echeneididje. 
Echeneis naucrates , L. On a Dalmatin specimen, Kolombatoyic, Glasnik 
Naravosl. druzt. xiii, p. 31. 
Gobiiiee. 
Gobius parvus and claytonii , spp. nn., Meek, Field Mus. Zool. iii, p. 121, 
pi. xxxi, R. San Francisco, Vera Cruz, Mexico ; G. sternbergi , sp. n., 
H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, xxi, p. 169, fig., L. Buhi, 
Philippines. 
Mistichthys , g. n., allied to Gobius , for M. luzonensis , sp. n., “the smallest 
known Vertebrate,” H. M. Smith, Science (2) xv, p. 30, and t. c. 
p. 167, figg., Philippines. 
Aboma snyderi , sp. n., Jordan & Fowler, P. U. S. Mus. xxv, p. 575, fig., 
Japan. 
Valenciennia longipinnis , Benn., redescribed and figured by Waite, Rec. 
Austral. Mus. iv, p. 271, pi. xliii. 
Pleuuonectida;. 
On the origin of the Pleuronectidee from forms allied to Zeus ; 0. Thilo, 
Zool. Anz. xxv, pp. 305-320, figg., and Biol. Centrbl. xxii, pp. 717-728, 
%g- 
Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 295, also discusses the affinities of 
the Pleuronectidee , which he regards as most nearly related to the 
Zeidce among living Fishes, both families being probably derived from 
a form similar to the extinct Amphistium , which is made the type of 
a family, Amphistiidce. The three families are united in a division of 
the Acanthopterygii under the name of Zeorhombi. 
On growth of scales in the Pleuronectidee : J. S. Thomson, J. Mar. Biol. 
Ass. (2) vi, p. 373. 
S. R. Williams, Bull. Mus. Harvard xl, pp. 1-57, pis. i-v, has a paper on 
the changes accompanying the migration of the eye in Pleuronectes 
americanus , with observations on the tractus opticus and tectum 
opticum. 
On Steenstrup’s observations on the migration of the eyes in Flat-fishes ; 
J. T. Cunningham, Nature lxv, p. 511, and F. J. Cole, t. c. p. 585. 
W. C. McIntosh, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) ix, pp. 291-296, records cases of 
abnormal coloration in Rhombus maximus , Pleuronectes Jlestis, P. 
limanda , and P. platessa. 
