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36. Disk subcircular ; mouth large; branchiae in 2J pairs (1,0; 11,1 — 1; III, 



1—1; IV, 1—0) Halieutcea. 



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

 membrane. 

 3. Disk subcircular; mouth small Halieutichthya, 



The genera have been made known as follows : — 



MALTHEIN^. 



MALTHE. 



Malthe, Cuvier, Regno Animal, l*' ed., r. 2, 311, 1817. 



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



Type: Malthe vespertilio. 



Atlantic coasts of America from Brazil to Labrador. 



UALIEUTiEINiE. 



DIBRANCHUS. 



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

 Type : Dibranchus atlanticus Peters. 

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



HALIEUT^A. 



Halieutiea Cuv. <)• VaL, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 455, 1837. 

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



Type: Halieutaea stellata Fa/, 4'- TFahl. 



Pacific Ocean, off China and Japan. 



HALIEUTICHTHYS. 



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

 Type: H;<lieutichthys ret iculatus Poey. 

 Atlantic Ocean, off the Island of Cuba. 

 November 9, 1878. 



CATAIiOOlJE: OF TOE: BIRDS OF ANTIOUA AIVD BARBUDA, FROIH 



c;ol.l.e:€tboivs inADii: for the: sitiithsoiviajv iivstitijtioiv, bt 



MR. FRED. A. OISER, \«'1TEI HIS OBSi>.RVATaOIVS. 



By OEOKGE TV'. LAl¥REi\Ci:. 



These collections were made bv 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. 



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

 l>rooUlyn, 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 uudescribed. 



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

 quotation-marks. 



