51(> PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.38. 



No. 1555, Indiana University, Punta Arenas. Dredged. Coll. 

 Dr. Wesley Newcomb. (Old number 923.) About 4.5 cm. long. 

 This is one of the cotypes of ThalassopJiryne dowi. a 



No. 410, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Panama. Coll. Alba- 

 tross. Two specimens, (i.5 cm. long and 14.1 cm. long. 



No. 39085, U. S. Nat. Mus., Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Coll. Dr. 

 Wesley Newcomb. One specimen, 0.7 cm. long. Type of Tlxdas- 

 sophryne dowi. 



No. 41232, U. S. Nat. Mus., station 2800, str. Albatross, 8° 51' N., 

 79° 31' 30" W., March 30, 1888; 7 fathoms: bottom green mud. 

 Bay of Panama. Two specimens, 10.6 cm. and 12.5 cm. long. 



No. 41430, U. S. Nat. Mus., station 2800, str. Albatross. One 

 specimen, 13.1 cm. long. 



No. 6875, Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum, Panama, Coll. 

 C. II. (iilbert. One specimen, 15.6 cm. long. This specimen was 

 figured by 1). S. Jordan in the plate which we copy from Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci. L896, ser. 2, vol. 6, p. 231, pi. 38. 



No. 2I()(), Cornell University Museum, Panama, Coll. Dr. Wesley 

 Newcomb. One specimen, 1 1.3 cm. long. 



a The first recorded specimen of Thalassophryru dowi was collected by Dr. C. II. 

 (iillicrt through the agency of Captain Dow and was given the manuscript name dov i 

 in his honor. This specimen was destroyed in the Indiana University fire. Later 



I >r. B. < i. Wilder sent Dr. D. S. Jordan three specimens, probably col lee ted by Captain 

 Dow for Doctor Newcomb. These specimens were: 



No. 1555, Corne 1 University Museum, from Panama. From Dr. Wesley Newcomb. 

 Dredged. < >ne specimen. 



No. L556, Cornell University Museum, Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Dredged. Two 

 specimens. 



One specimen numbered L556 was sent by Doctor Jordan to the U. S. National 

 Museum as the type of the new species. One of the others was returned to Doctor 

 Wilder as a cotype. This specimen lias been examined by us and proves to be a 

 Porichihys, probably greenei. The third specimen (numbered L555?) can not be 



found unless the one sent us from the Indiana University is the same, in which 

 case it should be recorded as Panama. Coll. Newcomb, instead of Punta Arenas, 

 Coll. S. E. Meek. 



In reply I ir requesl for information as to whether he had collected fishes in 



Costa Pica as indicated on the original label sent with the Indiana University speci- 

 men, we have the following letter from Doctor Meek 



••When I went to Cornell University in L885 I found there some fishes which I was 

 sure were new. I sent them to 1 >OCtor Jordan and he wrote me it w as a species he had 

 described bul type and description were burned in the fire at Indiana University 

 in 1883. I Benl him the data and he described the Bpecies. I did not collect the 

 specimens and know oo men' about them. It i-^ quite certain the fishes in question 

 were collected by Doctor Newcomb at Punta Arena-. Costa Pica. 



"(Signed i S. E. Meek. 



"( hicago, hi.. May 9, 1910." I 



Doctor Wilder had a third specimen, No. 2100, which he did not send to Doctor 

 Jordan. 



