NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM JAVA, MADE BY OWEN BRYANT AND WILLIAM PALMER IN 1909, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. By Barton A. Bean and Alfred C. Weed. Of the Division of Fishes, United States National Museum. Mr. Owen Bryant, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, having invited the United States National Museum to send a representative with him to Java for tlie puqjose of obtaining natural histoiy specimens, Mr. William Palmer was detailed by the museum for the duty and the present paper records the ichthyological collections made by them. Nine hundred and seventy-nine specimens were secured, represent-ing 106 genera and 182 species. The principal publications referred to in the paper are: Dr. P. Bleeker's Atlas Ichthj'ologique des Indes Orientales N^erlandaises, pub-lished under the auspices of the Gouvernement Colonial Necrlandais, by Fred. MiiUer, Amsterdam, 1862-1877. Nine volumes, folio, of this Atlas were published, and they form the principal work of Doctor Bleeker's life, bringing together the published results of his exhaustive labors upon the fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. In making a study of the fishes of the East India Archipelago Doctor Bleeker's works are indispensable and in connection M-ith reference thereto the volume entitled The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archi-pelago, index of the ichthyological papers of P. Bleeker by Dr. Max Weber and Dr. L. F. de Beaufort, Leiden, 1911, is mvaluable. This publication is an attractive octavo of more than 400 pages, and gives besides a short account of his life indexes of bibliography, genera, and species. SPHYRNA ZYG^NA (Linnaeus). One young specimen from Batavia representing the species figured under this name by Bleeker^ and by Day.^ Total length, 480 mm.; width of head, 130 mm.; lateral expansion, shortest distance from * Bijdrage tot de kennis der Plagiostomen van den Indischen Archipel. ( Verhandelingen van het Bata-viaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel XXIV, 1852, pp. 1-92. Batavia.) p. 42, pi. 3, fig. 8. » Day, Francis. The Fishes of India, vols. 1 and 2, quarto, 195 pis. London, 1876 and 1878, p. 719, pi. 186, fig. 4. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol.42— No. 1919. 587
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