PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 5 



C. — PROCEEDINGS. 



Department of the Interior : | U. S. Kational Museum. | —17— | Pro- 

 ceedings I of the I United States National Museum. | Vol. I. | 1878. | 



— I Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, j 



— I Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1879. (17) 



8vo,pp. iv, 520, 8Ji{/s., 8 plates. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



Page. 



Bean, Takletox H. Description of a New Sparoid Fish, Sargus Holbrookii, from Savannah 



Banlc 



198 



On tlie occurrence of Stichceus punctatus (Fabr.) Kroyer, at St. Michael's, Alaska 279 



On the Identity of EucMlarodus Putnami Gill, with Pleuronectes glaber (Storer) Gill, 



with Notes on the Habits of the Species 345 



Description of. a Species of Lycodes (L. Turneri) from Alaska, believed to be nnde- 



scribed ^^^ 



See also under Goode and Bean. 



Belding, L. A Partial List of the Birds of Central California 388 



Cook, Caleb. The Manufacture of Porpoise-Oil ^^ 



Dall, "W. H. Descriptions of New Forms of Mollusks from Alaska contained in the Collec- 

 tions of the National Museum ^ 



PostplioceneFossUs in the Coast Range of California 3 



Fossil Mollusks from Later Tertiaries of California 10 



Note on Shells from Costa Paca Kitchenmidden, collected by Drs. Flint and Bransford. . 23- 



Distribution of California Tertiary Fossils ' 26 



Descriptions of New Species of Shells from California in the Collections of the Na- 

 tional Museum • *" 



Report on the Limpets and Chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic Regions, with Descrip- 

 tions of Genera and Species believed to be new 281 



Edwauds, Vdial N. On the Occurrence of the Oceanic Bonito, Orcynus pelamys (Linn6) Poey, 



in Vineyard Sound. Mass • 263 



Gill Theodore. Synopsis of the Pediculate Fishes of the Eastern Coast of Extratropical 



North America ~^'' 



Note on the A n<ennar»dce -^-1 



On the Proper Specific Name of the Common Pelagic Antennariid Pterophryne 223 



Note on the Ceratiidce - "- ' 



Note on the Maltheidce 231 



Goode, G. Brown. The Clupea tyrannus of Latrobe 5 



The Occurrence of Belone latimanus in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts 6 



The Voices of Crustaceans ' 



A Revision of the American Species of the Genus Brevooriia, with a Description of a 



New Species from the Gulf of Mexico - 30 



Tho Occurrence of Hippocampus antiquorum, or an Allied Form, on Saint George's 



Banks '*5 



The Occurrence of the Canada Porcupine in West Virginia 264 



On Two Fishes from the Bermudas mistakenly described as new by Dr. Giinther 462 



Goode, G. Brown, and Tauleton H. Bean. The Craig Flounder of Europe, Glyptocephalus 



cynoglossus, on the Coast of North America 19 



Tho Oceanic Bonito on the Coast of the United States 24 



Description of Caulolatilus microps, a New Species of Fish from the Gulf Coast of 



Florida '^-' 



On a New Serranoid Fish, Epinephelus Drummond-Hayi, from the Bermudas and 



Florida 1"3 



Descriptions of Two Now Species of Fishes, Lvijantis Blackfordii and Lutjajius 



Stearnsii, from the Coast of Florida 1"6 



A Note upon the Black Grouper {Epinephelus nigritus (Holbrook) Gill) of tho Southern 



Coast 1^2 



Descriptions of Two Gadoid Fishes, Phycis Ohcsteri and Haloporphyrus viola, from the 



DoepSea Fauna of tlio Northwestern Atlantic 256 



Description of Argentina syrtensium, a Now Deep-Sea Fish from Sable Island Bank 261 



The Identity of iir/iTOonemM»oaM(iac«<a (Storer) Gill with Gadus cimbrius Udu 348 



(617) 



