154 PKOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



35. CYPRINID^. 



83. Notemigonus americanus (Liuu.) Jordau. — Roach; Sucker . 



A single specimen, No. 21,465 (55). D. II, 7 ; A. II, 1, 13; P. 1, 15; V. 

 I, 7. L. lat. 47 ; L. trans. 15. 



36. SILUniDJE. 



84. Ariopsis felis (Linn.) Gill & Jordau. — SaU-ivater Catfish. 



A single specimen, No. 21,487 (58), llf inches in length. D I, 7 + 1 j 

 A. 18; P. I, 10; V. G. 



37. ANGUILLID^. 



85. Anguilla vulgaris Turtou. — Eel. 



A single specimen, No. 22,813 (101), 22 inches in length. A stout and 

 short-headed form, agreeing essentially with A. hostoniensis as defined 

 by Giinther, except that the distance between the origin of the dorsal 

 and anal fins is considerably greater than the length of the head. The 

 thick lips and shape of the body suggest Girard's Aiigtiilla tyrannus 

 from the Gulf of Mexico. 



38. MUR^NIDJE. 



86. Crotalopsis mordax (Poey). 



Conga' mm-dax Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1860, p. 319. 

 Macrodonophia mordax Poey, Kept. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, \}. 252, plate ii, fig. 

 9 (head). 



This species is probably the Crotalopsis punctifer of Kaup,* and called 

 by Giinther OpMchthys pimctifer. We have had no opportunity of exam- 

 ining the original description by Kaup, and Dr. Giinther does not claim 

 to have seen specimens of this species. We therefore provisionally 

 adopt the name of Poey, being fully convinced that the specimen 

 described by him is specifically identical with a specimen, No. 17,176, 

 33 inches in length, sent to the National Museum from Pensacola, Fla., 

 by F. B. Stevenson, U. S. N. 



A specimen, No. 22,844, was sent from West Florida by Kaiser and 

 Martin in 1804. 



87. Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz. 



Uijmnoihorax ocellatus Agassiz, in Spix Pise. Bras. 1829, p. 91, pi. L. b. 

 Mimma occHata GUnth., Cat. Fisbes Brit. Mus. viii, 1870, p. 102. 

 Neomurwna nigromarginata Girard, Ichthyology, U. S. Geol. Survey, 1859, p. 76, 

 p]. xli. 



The Museum has a bottle. No. 5,160, containing many specimens of 

 this species, old and young, coUecfed in West Florida by Kaiser and 

 Martin. The largest measure 16 inches ; the smallest about 5. 



» Abhaudl. naturwi&s. Vereiu Hamburg, iv, 2, 1860, (1859), p. xii, Taf. i. Fig. 3. 



