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NOTE ON THE ODONTOSTOMIDiE. 

 BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 



Dr. Pilsbry, Conservator of the Couchological Section of The 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, has called my 

 attention to the fact that the name Odontostomus was first proposed 

 foi" mollusca in the Index Molluseorum prcesentis cevl Musei Prin- 

 cipis aiigustissimi Christiani Frederici, edited by H. Beck in 1837, 

 thus having one year of priority over its use in ichthyology. 



I take pleasure in dedicating the necessary changes to Dr. B. 

 W. Evermann, the distinguished ichthyologist of the United 

 States Fish Commission, and joint author of that monumental 

 work, The Fishes of North America. 



The natural derivative, Evermannia, is already used in ichthy- 

 ology, so I propose Evermanella. 



The changes, with nearly all of the synonymy, will result in the 

 following: 



Family EVERMANNBLLID^. 



OdontostomidcB Gill, in Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 1896, 



p. 121. 

 OdontostoviidcB Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, 



I, 1896, p. 597. 



Genus EVERMANNELLA. 



Odondostomus Cocco, Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali, Bologna, 



II, 1838, p. 192. 



Odo7ito8tomus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., V, 1864, p. 417. 

 Odontostomus Giinther, Rep. Sci. Res. Voy. Challenger, Zool. 



XXII, 1887, p. 200. 

 Odontostomus Alcock, Desc. Cat. Ind. Fish Investigator, 1899, p. 166. 

 Odontostomus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, Fish, 



XXVI, 1899, p. 402. 



1. Evermannella balbo (Risso). 



Scopelus Balbo Risso, IVIem. del. Reale Accad. del. Sci. Torino, XXV, 



1820-22. p. 263, PI. X, fig. 3. 

 Scopelus balbo Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid., Ill, 1826, p. 466. 

 Odontostomus balbo Bonaparte, Cat. Met. Pesci Europei, 1846, p. 37. 

 Odondostomus hyalinus Cocco, Nuovi Anuali delle Scienze Naturali, 



Bologna, II, 1833, p. 192, Tav. VIII, fig. 11. 



