ADDENDA 72. XIPHllD^ TETRAPTURUS, 
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each scale is angulatecl behiud. Soft dorsal naked. Head depth 6 . 
D. IV or V-I, 8 or 95 A. 1, 17 or 18; scales 45-10. L. 3 inches. Missis- 
sippi River; the types from Memphis and Vicksburg. {Haij lilSS.) 
Page 408. Under M. heryUina read “ two half-row of scales,” instead 
of “24.” 
Page 408. Instead of Menidia hrasiHensin read: 
044. M. bosci (Cuv. &, Viil.) Swain. 
Distinguished from If. uotata by the deeper body and stronger teeth. 
The soft dorsal and anal, as in other smooth-scaled species, are free from 
scales. D. I V-I, 8 ; A. usually I, 24. South Carolina to Florida. 
(Atherina menidia L. Syst. Nat.: A. iosci C. & V. X, 4&'); not A. irasilienshi Q. & G.) 
Page 415. The genus and species Argyrotcenia vittata’’^ should be 
erased from the system. We have little doubt that they are based on 
a specimen of Ammodytes americanus. Our alleged species of Ammo- 
dytidce are perhaps all forms of Ammodytes toManus L. A. personatus^ 
at least, is not distinguishable from A. americanus. 
Page 417. To the .synonymy of Eclieneis remora add: 
(Echcneis squalipeta Daldorf Nat. Selskab. ii, 157, about 1785; and Giintber ii, 1.57. 
If the subgenus Remora Gill, be adopted as a genus, which may be desirable, this spe- 
cies should stand as Remora squalipela (Dald.) J. & G.) 
Page 418. Elacate Canada is known in Florida as “ Sergeant- tish,” from 
its lateral stripes; also, as “Snooks” and “Ling.” 
Page 420. Instead of Tetrapturus alhidus read: 
663. T. indiciis C. & Y. 
Tropical seas, northward to the Grand Banks, on our Atlantic coast. 
Instead of the synonymy in the text, substitute the following:* 
(C. & V. Hist. Nat. Poiss. viii, 1831, 286: Telrapturus herschelii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist, 
i, 313, 1838 : Tetrajyturus herschelii Liitken, Spolia Atlantica, 1880, 441 : Histiophorus her- 
schelii Giinther, ii, 513 : Telrapturus alhidus Poey, M4m. Cuba, ii, 237, 1858: ? Tetraptu- 
rus amplus Poey, M6m. Cuba, ii, 243: Histiophorus hrevirostris Gthr. and Playfair, Fish. 
Zanzibar, 1866, 53: Teirapturus georgii Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend, viii, 36, 1840: Te- 
trapturus lessonii Canestrini, Arch. Zool. i, 259, 1861; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
1881, 418 (detailed review of family): not Telrapturus helone Raf.=T. i>?ipera for (Bloch 
& Schneider) Goode, a distinct species, known only from the Mediterranean.) 
* This synonymy is given in accordance with the views of Dr. Liitken, who recog- 
nizes but five species of Xiphiidce. This view is probably correct but, as has been per- 
tinently observed by Professor Goode, the identity of the American species called 
Telrapturus alhidus and Histiophorus amei-icanus, with their Old World representatives, 
is yet unproven, and in many respects it is desirable to retain the American names until 
this identity is shown. “ To unite species from widely distant localities, without ever 
having seen them, is very disastrous to a proper understanding of the problems of 
geographical di.stribution.” (Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 427.) 
