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168. Mobula hypostonia (Bancroft). 



Jamaica. 



Cephalopterus hypostomus Bancroft, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc, 1830, 134, 

 Jamaica. 



169. Mobula olfersi (Miillcr and Ilenlc). Small devilfish. 



Cupe Lo()i<out, N. C, to Brazil. 



Ceplialopterus olfersi Midler and Ilcnle, Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1834, 311, Brazil; regarded by Garman as identical with M. thy- 



posloma. 



Genus 72. CERATOBATIS Boulenger. 



Ceralobatis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 1897, 227 (C. robertsi 

 Boulenger). 



170. Ceratobatis robertsi Boulenger. 



Jamaica. 



Ceratubalis robertsi Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 1897, 227, 

 Jamaica. 



Genus 73. MANTA Bancroft. 



Mania Bancroft, Zool. Jour., IV, 1828-29, 444 {Cephalopterus manta 



Bancroft = /?«io birostris Walbaum, 1792). 

 Ceratoptera Miiller and Henle, Sy.st. Besclir., Plagiostmon, 1838, 186 



(Cephaloptera vampyrus Mitchill). 

 Brachioptilon Newman, Zoologist, 1849, 74 (B. hamiltoni). 

 Diabolichthys Holmes, Proc. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, 1856, 39 (D. 



elliotti Holmes). 



171. Manta birostris (Walbaum). Sea devil; Devilfish; Manta; Blanketfish. 



Tropical waters of America; north to New Jersey and San Diego; not 



rare on the Florida coast. 

 Raia birostris Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, 535, after Diabolus marinus 



Willughby, etc. 

 Raid manatia Schneider, Svst. Ichth., 1801, 364, tropical America. 

 Raia fimhr lata Laccpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 677, Gulf Stream. 

 Cephaloptcrus vampyrus Mitchill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., I, 1823, 



23, Delaware Bay. 

 Cephalopterus giorna LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IV, 1824, 



115, Georgia. 

 Cephaloptera mania or Mania americana Bancroft, Zool. Jour., IV, 



1828, 444, Jamaica. 

 Cephaloptera johni Miiller and Henle, Svst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, 1838, 



186, West Indies. 

 Diabolichthys elliotti Holmes, Proc. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1856, 39, 



Charleston, S. C. 



172. Manta hamiltoni (Newman). 



San Diego; Gulf of California to Panama, not rare; not known to be 



distinct from Mania birostris. 

 Brachioptilon humilloni Newman, Zoologist, 1849, 74, Gulf of California. 



Subclass HOLOCEPHALI. Chimaeras 



Order I. CHIMiEROIDEI. Chimseroids 



Family 31. CHIM.ffiRIDiE. Chimaeras 



Genus 74. CHIMERA Linnseus. Elephant fishes. 



Cltiiniira Linna-us, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 236 (C monstrosa Linnjeus). 



173. Chimaera monstroaa Linnieus. 



Deep waters of the Atlantic; off Portugal and off the American coast 



from Cape Cod northward. 

 Chimxra monstrosa L., Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 236, Atlantic. 

 Chinnera mediterranea Risso, Europ. Merid., Ill, 1S2(), 168, Nice. 

 Chirmera cristata Faber, Natur. der Fische Islands, 1829, 45, Iceland. 

 Calloryhnchus cenlrina and Callorhynchus atlanticus Gronow, Cat. 



Fishes, 15, 16, 1854. 



