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Family XLIX. NETTASTOMID^. The Sorcerers. 



Genus 166. CHLOPSIS Rafinesque. 



Chlopsis Ralinesque, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 58, 1810 (hicolor). 



612. Chlopsis equatorialis Gilbert. 



Coast of Ecnaclor. 



Cldopsis equatorialis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891. 347, off coast of 

 Ecuador, l'^ S., 81^ W., at Albatross Station 2792, in 401 fathoms. 



Genus 167. VENEFICA Jordan & Davis. 



T'enejica .Jordan & Davis, Apodal Fishes, 651, 1892 (procera). 



613. Venefica procera (Goode & Bean). 



Gulf Stream; also taken off" San Pedro, California. 



Nettastoma piocenim Goode & Bean, Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool., x, 224, 1883, 



Gulf Stream, at Albatross Station 325, 33- 35' 20" N., 76^ W., in 647 



fathoms; also at Station 327. 



Family L. NBMICHTHYIDiE. The Snipe Eels. 



Genus 168. SERRIVOMER Gill & Ryder. 



Serrivomer (iill & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 260 (heanii). 



614. Serrivomer beanii Gill & Ryder. 



Gulf Stream; also taken in the Gulf of California. 



.Serriromer bcAOiii Gill & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1883, 261, Gulf Stream, 

 latitude 41-' 40' 30", longitude 65° 28' 30", in 8.55 fathoms. 



Genus 169. SPINIVOMER Gill & Ryder. 



Sj)inivoi)ier Gill & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 261 (goodei). 



615. Spinivomer goodei Gill & Ryder. 



Gulf Stream. 



Spinivomer goodei Gill & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 261, Gulf Stream, 

 at latitude 38- 19' 26", longitude 68° 20' 20", in 2,.361 fathoms. 



Genus 170. AVOCETTINA Jordan & Davis. 

 Avocettina Jordan & Davis, Apodal Fishes, 6.55, 1892 (i7tfans). 



616. Avocettina infans (GUnther). 



Known from West Indies, mid- Atlantic, off Pernambuco. 

 Xemiclithiif: infans Glinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, 24, and in Voy. 

 Challenger, xxii, 264, 1887, mid-Atlantic, in 2,500 fathoms. 



617. Avocettina gilli (Bean). 



Coast of southeastern Alaska in deep water. 



LaMchthj/n gilli Bean. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 45, east of Prince of Wales 

 Island, Alaska. 



Genus 171. LAEICHTHYS Gill & Ryder. 



Lahichthys Gill & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883. 261 (carinaius). 



618. Labichthys carinatus Gill & Ryder. 



Gulf Stream. 



Lahirhthi/s carinatus Gill & Ryder, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 253, 255,261, 

 Gulf Stream, 41° 13' N., 65^^ 33' W. 



619. Labichthys elongatus Gill &, Ryder. 



Gulf Stream. 



Lahichthys elongatus CAW & Ryder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 262, Gulf Stream, 

 at Albatross Station 2100, 39° 22' N., 68^ 34' W. 



