228 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Series TELEOSTEI. The Bony Pishes. 



Subclass OSTARIOPHYSI. 



Order M. NEMATOGNATHI. The Catfishes. 



Family XXXIV. SILURIDiE. The Catfishes. 



Genus 68. FELICHTHYS Swainson. Gaff-topsail Catfishes. 

 Felldifhys Swaiuson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, ii, 305, 1839, substitute for Brevkeps 



{bag re). 



160. Felichthys panamensis (Gill). 



Mazatlan to Panama; common. 



AUuricUhys panamensis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 172, Panama. 



161. Felichthys bagre (Lmnteus). 



Coast of Brazil, accredited to the West Indies, but rare north of Surinam. 

 Siluriis bagre Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 505,1766, South America; after 

 Gronow. 



162. Felichthys pinnimaculatus (Steindachner). 



Mazatlan to Panama. 



Ailurichthys pinnimaculatus Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., iv, 15, 1875, Panama, 

 Altata, Costa Rica. 



163. Felichthys eydousrii (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Guayaquil. 



Galeichthys eydouxii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xv, 43, 1840, 

 Guayaquil. 



164. Felichthys filamentosus Swainson. 



Atlantic Coast of tropical America. 

 - Felichthys filamentosus S\Yain8on, Nat. Hist. Auim., ii, 305, 1839; after Bloch, 

 pi. 365. 



165. Felichthys marinus (Mitchill). Sea Catfish; Gaff Topsail. 



Cape Cod to Texas. 



Silurus marinus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 433, New 

 York. 



166. Felichthys bahiensis (Castelnau). 



Mexico to Bahia. 



Galeichthys bahiensis Castlenau, Anim. Amer. Sud, 37, 1855, Bahia. 



Genus 69. GALEICHTHYS Cuvier & Valenciennes. Sea Catfishes. 



Galeichthys Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xv, 28, 1840 {feliceps). 



167. Galeichthys lentiginosus (Eigenmann & Eigenmanu). 



Panama. 



Tachisnrus lentiginosus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888, 139, 

 Panama. 



168. Galeichthys peruvianus Liitken. 



Pacific Coast of Mexico to Peru. 



Galeichthys peruvianus Liitken, Vidensk. Med. 1874, 204, Callao, Peru. 



Subgenus HEXAJfEMATICHTHVS Bleeker. 



Hexanematichthys Bleeker, Ichthyol. Archip. Indici Siluri, 61, 1858 (sundaicus). 



169. Galeichthys felis (Linnaeus). Sea Catfish. 



Cape Cod to Texas. 



Silurus fclis Linnams, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 503, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina. 



170. Galeichthys seemani (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Arius seemani Giinther, Cat., v, 147, 1864, " Central America." 



