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3&. Disk subcircular ; mouth large; brancbiie iu 2^ pairs (1,0; 11,1 — 1; III, 



1—1; IV, 1—0) Halieutaa. 



2b. Palate dentigerous ; rostral tentacle obsolete; carpus inclosed in common 

 membrane. 



3. Disk subcircular ; mouth small HaUeutichthi/8, 



The genera have been made known as follows : — 



MALTHEIN^. 



MALTHE. 



Malthe, Cuvier, E6gne Animal, 1" «5d., t. 2, 311, 1817. 



Malthea, Cuvier .J- Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 438, 1837. 



Type : Malthe vespertilio. 



Atlantic coasts of America from Brazil to Labrador. 



HALIEDT^miE. 



DIBEANCHUS. 



Dibranchus Peters, Monatsber. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 1875, p. 736. 

 Type : Dibranchus atlanticus Peters. 

 Atlantic Ocean, in deep water, near the coast of Africa. 



HALIEUTiEA. 



Halieutaea Cuv. 4' Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 455, 1837. 

 Astrocanthus Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, p. — , 1839. 



Type : Halieutaja stellata Val. <.f Wahl. 



Pacific Ocean, ofi" China and Japan. 



HALIEUTICHTHYS. 



Halientichthys, Poey, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., [v. 15,] pp. 89, 90, 1863. 

 Type: Halieutichthys reticulatus Poey. 

 Atlantic Ocean, off the Island of Cuba. 

 NOVEMBEK 9, 1878. 



CATAlL,0«rE OF THE BORD.^ OF AIVTffGUA AlVltt BABBUDA, FBOITI 



C'OJLtiEC'I'flONS ITIADE FOB THE SIWITHSOIVDAIV BIVSTITUTION, BV 

 ]nB. FBEI>. A. OBEB, \)'ITH UflS OB^KBVATSOIVS. 



By oeorge: n. lawkewck. 



These collections were made by Mr. Ober in August and September, 

 1877. They were left in charge of the United States consul at Antigua, 

 to be forwarded to Washington when an opportunity offered, and were 

 sent soon thereafter ; but from want of a proper notification or some 

 other cause, their arrival was not known, and they were supposed to 

 have gone astray. 



In July of this year, they were ascertained to be in a public store in 

 Brooklyn, where they had been since November, 1877. 



The only bird sent of special interest is a species of Burrowing Owl 

 from Antigua, which, on investigation, I considered to be undescribed. 



The names given by Mr. Ober, with his observations, are inclosed in 

 quotation-marks. 



