ADDENDA 118. OPHIDIID.E GENYPTERUS. 9G3 



Page 793. Alter Opliidium Jwlbroolci (which will probably be found to 

 be identical 'with O.joseplii) add: 

 1221 (6). O. gracllsi Poey. 



Pale olive (fins without dark edging ?). Head small, not very blunt j 

 snout 4 in head; eye 3^; mouth oblique, the maxillary 2 in head, reach- 

 ing to posterior border of pupil; teeth small, in narrow bauds, few on 

 vonier and palatines; head naked; suont without spine; gill-rakers 

 rather long and strong, 4 below angle of arch ; opercle without spine ; 

 occiput nearly midway between origin of dorsal and front of eye. Air- 

 bladder long and slender, tapering backwards. Head 4f ; depth 7. 

 Cuba to West Florida. 



(?Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 455, 1860; Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 301.) 



Page 794. After Opliidium profundorum add : 



433 (!>). GETCYPTERUS Philippi. 



(Philippi, Wiegmann's Archiv. 1857, 268: type Genypterus nigricans Philippi = Conger 

 ckUensin Guiclienot.) 



As here understood, this genus differs from Opliidium chiefly in the 

 presence of a sharp spine on the opeicle; most of the species have some 

 of the palatine teeth enlarged, (j^y?, chin ; TT-/>V, fin.) 



a. Palatine teeth small. 



1223 (b). G. omostigraia J- & G- 



Light olive, mottled with darker; fins with broad black edging; a 

 large round, intensely black spot at the shoulder, rather larger than 

 pupil ; upper half of eye black. Body rather short, tapering rapidly 

 backward from the occiput; snout blunt; month horizontal; lower jaw 

 included; maxillary not quite reaching posterior border of orbit, 1| in 

 head; teeth in jaws in broad bands; teeth on vomerand palatines quite 

 small; eye much longer than snout, 3 in head; opercle ending in a 

 strong spine ; gill-rakers very small, 4 below angle of arch. Ventrals 

 half length of head ; scales minute, imbedded, irregularly arranged ; no 

 evident pseudobranchia3. Air-bladder short, thick, with a large pos- 

 terior foramen. Head 4; depth 6. L. 3 inches. Deep water off Peii- 

 sacola, Florida. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 301.) 



Page 79G. For Halias Ayres read Brosmopliyds Gill. The former 

 name is said to be preoccupied. 



