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2990. Ceratocottus lucasi Jorflan and Gill)ert. 



Bering; Sea. 



Cerniocotius lucasi Jordan and Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, 



Fishes North and Mid. Anier , 1898, 1940, St. Paul Island, Bering 



Sea. 



Family 234. BLEPSIID^ 



Genus 1040. HISTIOCOTTUS Gill. 



Feraj)U!i Lay and Bennett, Beechey's Voy., Zool., Fish., 1839, 50 {Blepsias 



bilobus Cuvier and Valenciennes); name preoccupied. 

 Ilistiocnttus Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., XI, 1888, 573 {Blepsias 

 bilobns Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



2991. Histiocottus bilobus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Coast of Alaska aiifl Kamchatka. 



Blepsia>i bilobus Cuvier anrl Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 279 (379), no locality, somewhere off Kamchatka. 



Genus 1041. BLE?SIA5 Cuvier. 



Blepsias Cuvier, Re^ne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 167 {Trachinus cirrhosus 



I'ailas). 



2992. Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas). A^ee-kaio-kaiung. 



Alaska to San Francisco; common at Unalaska, but not often south of 



Puijct Sound. 

 Trachinus cirrhosus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., Ill, 1811, 237, Bering 



Sea. 

 Blepsin Irilohus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 



27ti (375) ; same types. 



Genus 1042. NAUTICHTHYS Girard. 



Nanlichlhin Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, pt. 4, Fishes, 1858, 74 {Blepsias 



oculofasciatus Girard). 

 Nautiscas '- Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 



1898, 2019 {A'autichthys pribilonus Jordan and Gilbert). 



Subgenus NAUTICHTHYS Girard. 



2993 Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard). 



Pacific coast, Alaska to Monterey, chiefly northward; common in 



Bristol Bay anrl about Unalaska. 

 Blepsias ocuiofascialus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IX, 1857, 

 202, Fort Stcilacoom, Wash. 



Subgenus NAJTISC LIS Jordan and Gilbert. 



2994. Nautichthys pribilovius (Jordan and Gilbert). 

 Bering Sea, Alaska. 



Nauliscus pribilovius Jordan and Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermaim, 

 Fishes North and Mid. Amer. 1898, 2020, off St. George Island, 

 Bering Sea. 



Family 235. SCORP^NICHTHYIDiE. Cabezones 



Genus 1043. SCORP^NICHTHYS Girard. 



Scarpwnichtln/s Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 131 

 i Ileinitriplcrus niarmorntus .\yres). 



2995 Scorpaenichthys marmoratus (Ayres). Cabezon. 



Pacific coast of America from Puget Sound to San Diego. 

 Hemilriplerus marmoratus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1S51, 

 4, San Francisco. 



It The genus Nauliscus is now regarded as scarcely distinct from Nautichthys. 



