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Sci. Phila., LXIV, 1912, 



Genus 241. AHYNNODONTOPHIS Fowler. 

 Ahytmodontopliis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 25 {A. stigmanotus Fowler). 



651. Ahynnodontophis stigmanotus Fowler. 



West Indies (?) 



Ahynnndontnphis stigmanotus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 LXIV, 1912, 25; supposed to be from the West Indies. 



Genus 242. ECHIDNA Forster. 



Echidna Forster, Bibliotheca Banksije, 1777, 181 {E. variegata Forster). 

 Gymnoinurscna Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 648 (G. doliata 



Lac^pede) . 

 Gymnopsis Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815, 93 (substitute for Gymno- 



rnura'na). 

 Megaderia Rafinesque, loc. cit., 93 (substitute for Echidna Forster). 

 Molarii Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844, 79 {Mursena ophis = 



Echidna nebulosa). 

 Pwcilophis Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 98 (Gymnothorax catenatus 



Bloch). 



652. Echidna catenata (Bloch). 



\\'est Indies, from Bermuda to Surinam; our specimens from Santa 



Lucia. 

 Mursena sen conger brasiliensis Seba, Thesaurus, II, 1738, 72, pi. 69, 



figs. 4, 5, Brazil. 

 Gymnothorax catenatus Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, XII, 1795, 



74, pi. 415, fig. 1, Coromandel; an error. 

 MuTcrna sordida Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 1, 1817, 233, after Seba. 

 Muricnophis catenula Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 628 and 641, 



Palmerston Island; after Bloch. 

 Echidna fuscomaculata Poey, Repertorio, II, 1868, 263, Cuba. 

 Echidna jlavoscripta Poey, loc. cit., 264, Cuba. 



653. Echidna nocturna (Cope). 



Pacific coast of Mexico, the two known specimens from the Rio Grande, 



in Costa Rica and from Cape San Lucas. 

 Poecilophis nocturnus Cope, Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Mont., 1871 (1872), 



474, Rio Grande at San Jose, Costa Rica. 



654. Echidna scabra Garman 



Cocos Island. 

 Echidna scabra Garman, 

 Cocos Island. 



655. Echidna cocosa Garman. 



Cocos Island. 

 Echidna cocosa Garman, 

 Cocos Island. 



656. Echidna chionostigma Fowler. 



(iiilf of California (?). 



Echidna chionostigma Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXIV, 

 1912, 28; supposed to be from the Gulf of California. 



Genus 243. UROPTERYGIUS Riippell. 



Gymnomtinina Lact'ijcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 648 (G. doliata 



Lacepede); restricted first by Kaup, in 1856, to doliata, which is a 



species of Echidna. 

 Ichthyophis Lesson, Voj'. Coquille, II, 1830, 120 (/. pantherinus 



Lesson); not of Fitzinger, 1S29, a genus of reptiles. 

 Uropterygius Riippell, Keue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 1835, 83 (A^ebrius 



concolor RiipjM'll). 

 Murunoblenna K'aup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 67, {Ichthyophis tigrina 



Lesson); not of Lacepede, 1803, which is Myxine. 

 Scutica Jordan and P^vermann, Fish. North and Mid. Amer., 1896, 



403, {Uropterygius necturus Jordan and Gilbert). 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 1899, 314, 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 1899, 313, 



