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PISCES.
SdJENIDiE.
Larimus auritus. Pristipoma macrophthalmum (Blkr.) is this species.
Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, 1869, lx. p. 684.
Scicena epipercus (Blkr.) described by Steindachner, I. c. p. 695, taf. 9.
Scicena adusta described by Hensel, Wiegni. Arch. 1870, p. 50.
Otolithus senegalensis (C. & V.) = Pseudotolithus typus (Blkr.). Steindachner,
I. c. p. 687, taf. 6.
Otolithus macrognathus (Blkr.) figured by Steindachner, I. c. p. 690, taf. 7.
Corvina nigrita (C. &\.)=clavigera (C. & V.) [as already suggested by
Dr. Giinther]. Steindachner, I. c. p. 692, taf. 8.
XlPHILThE.
Histiophorus. F. J. Knox publishes notes on a Swordfish stranded on the
west coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and figures the skull &a.
Tr. N. Z. Inst. ii. 1870, pp. 13-16, pi. 1. [This appears to be a specimen of
Histiophorus brevirostris, Playf.]
CARANGID^E.
Caranx senegallus (C. & V.) described by Steindachner, SB. Ale. Wiss.
Wien, 1869, lx. p. 704.
Caranx compressus, sp. n., Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 689, Andaman Islands.
Argyriosus setipinnis. From notes made by Dr. Steindachner, I. c. p. 706>
it would appear that Vomer goreensis (Guich.)= V. senegalensis (Guich.) =
A. setipinnis, var. B (Gthr.) [=V. dorsalis, Gill], and that V. gabonensis
(Guich.)=^4. setipinnis, var. A (Gthr.) =A. gabonensis (Steind.).
Vomer curtus is described as a new species from Newport, R. I., by Cope,
P. Ac. Philad. 1870, p. 119.
Trachynotus. Dr. Steindachner (I. c.) describes the following species from
Senegambia:—T. goreensis (C. & V.)=T. myrias (C. & "V.) = T. maxillosus
(C. & V), p. 707; T. ovatus, p. 709; T. teraioides (Dum.), p. 710, taf. 12;
T. martini, sp. n., p. 711.
NoMEHLE.
Cubiceps indicus, sp. n., Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 690, Madras.
SCOMBRIDJE.
Scomber reani, sp. n., Day, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 690, Andaman Islands.
Echeneis feeds on fishes. Van Beneden, Bull. Ac. Belg. 1870, xxx.
pp. 181-185.
TRACHINID^E.
Pseudochromis ransonneti, sp. n., Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, lx. 1870,
p. 562, Singapore.
BATRACHILLE.
Batrachus grunniens, an reticulatus (sp. n.) ? Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien,
lx. 1870, p. 564, Singapore.
COTTID>E.
Centridermichthysjaponicus, sp. n., Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, 1870. lxi.
p. 625, taf. 1. fig. 3. '