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Vol. VII, IVo. 5. Washing ton, ». C. June II, 1884. 



1873. Siiccopharynx flagellum, GUI, Cat. Fishes E. coast N. Am., p. 34. 

 (Named with place of capture — " lat. 55'^ N., long. 30" W.") 



1877. Saccopharynx flagellum, i7oMer, Museum Nat. Hist., Am. Fauna, p. ccl. 



1879. Saccopharynx flagellum, Goode ^ Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., v. 11, p. — . 

 Sep. copy, p. 27. (In part: referred to the Essex co. (Mass.) fauna on 

 account of the capture of Mitchill's fish in lat. 52^ N. ; long. 30° W. 



1882. Saccopharynx flagellum, Jordan 4" Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., p. 365. 

 Ophiognathus ampullaceus. (PI. I, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884,) ex Harwood. 



SYNONYMY. 



1827. Ophiognathus ampullaceus, S^ancocw!, Phil. Trans. E. Soc, 1827, p. 52,* 



pi. 7 ; f. unnumb. (entire fish) ; f. 1 (head with month closed) ; f. 2 (head 



with mouth open) ; f 3 (head below). 

 1829. Saccopharynx [ampullaceus?], Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2 ed., t. 3, p. 355, 



(ed. de luxe, t. 4, p. 321). 

 1845. Saccopharynx Harwoodi, Stejjhens (?), Encyclopi^dia Metropolitana, 



V. 24, p. 250; v. 7, p. 388; Pisces, pL 9, f. med. (lat. view entire fish, 



copied from Harwood). 

 1862. Saccopharynx ampullaceus, Johnson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (3,) v. 



10, p. 277, 279. 

 1870. Saccopharynx flagellum,t Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 8, p. 22 



(in part). 

 1879. Saccopharynx flagellum. Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 15, p. 133. 



(in part; inserted on account of the identification with 0. ampuUaceus 



which "was captured in the entrance of Davis Strait"). 



Saccopharynx flagellum also appears in Messrs. Goode and Bean's 

 "Eeport on tlie Fishes," collected in 1880 by the United States Coast 

 Survey steamer Blake, as the name of a fish obtained by that vessel. 

 The fish in question, "a single badly mutilated example, was secured"' 

 in north latitude 35o 44' 40" and west longitude 74° 40' 20", at a depth 

 of 898 fathoms. Suspecting, from a rough outline sketch Dr. Gill had 

 seen, that it might be a Gastrostomus, we requested Mr. S. A. Gar man 

 to examine the specimen now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Cambridge, and he has written that it is a specimen of the species 

 described as Gastrostomus Bairdii (Gill & Eyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 V. 6, p. 262). Dr. Bean also had previously thought that the specimen, 

 might be a Gastrostomus, and informs us that the identification witll 

 Saccopharynx was provisional. 



* The reference to " Ophiognathus, Harwood, Phil. Trans. 1827, p. 277," given by 

 Dr. Giinther and quoted by Jordan and Gilbert, is erroneous ; as will also be noticed 

 no plate is referred to by Dr. Giinther. 



t The reference to "Saccopharynx flagellum, Mitchill, I. c," i. e., "Ann. Lye. Ncm 

 York, i, 1824, p. 82," is entirely erroneous. As has been before stated, no such name 

 as "Saccopharynx flagellum" is to be found in Mitchill's memoir, and the name 

 Saceojyhanjnx is only recorded at p. 86. 



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