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[[double underlined]] Fred Mather[[/double underrlined]], [[underline]] Adirondack Lakes, New York. [[/underlined]]

[[red underlined]] Accession [[/red underlined]] 13811;
[[red underlined]] Catalogue [[/red underline]] 33917-33919.

Mr. Mather has described, for the Adirondack Survey Report, two new species of [[underlined]] Catostomus[[/underlined]] and forwarded the types to the National Museum.  One of these is

[[underlined]] Catostomus nanomyzon[[/underlined]]  Mather, from a

tributary of Big Moose Lake. I am inclined to think that these are simply young, or dwarfed, examples of [[underlined]] Catostomus longirostrum,[[/underlined]] which have early begun reproduction.  I can see no specific characters to warrant this separation from [[underlined]] longirostrum. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Catostomus retowana [[/underlined]]  Mather, from Blue

Mountain Lake, Hamilton Co., New York and also from Big Moose Lake, I should call [[underlined]] C. teres [[/underlined]] (Mitch.), the commonest of the northern suckers. The fact that these two species were found spawning when of small size does not warrant their separation as distinct species, this being probably a climatic phenomenon.

[[double underlined]] Lewis G. Mitchell, [[/double underlined]][[underlined]]Barnegat, New Jersey. [[/underlined]]

[[red underlined]] Accession [[/red underlined]] 13671;
[[red underlined]] Catalogue [[/red underline]] 33197.

    Mr. Mitchell forwarded a fine adult specimen of

[[underlined]] Pomacanthus arcuatus,[[/underlined]] which we have not

before known to exist in our seas north of Florida.  A color sketch and a cast were made and Mr. Todd is now at work on a drawing of both the adult and the young.