274 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Genus 178. LETHARCHUS Goode & Bean. 



Letharchus Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 437 (velifer). 



629. Letharchus velifer Goode & Beau. 



Coast of Florida, iu rather deep water ; kuowu only from the Snapper Banks 



off Pensacola and Tampa. 

 Letharchus velifer Groode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 437, West Florida. 



Genus 179. MYRICHTHYS Girard. 

 Mi/riehthys Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18.59, 58 (tigrinus). 



630. Myrichthys tigrinu.s Girard. 



Pacitic Coast of Mexico; rather common about Mazatlan, and occasionally 



ranging northward. 

 Myrichthys tigrinus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 58, Adair Bay, 



Oregon. 



631. Myrichthys ociilatus (Kaup). 



Tropical Atlantic; Cuba to Surinam, and Cape Verde Islands. 

 Fisoodonophis oculafus Kaup, Apodes, 22, 1856, Curavoa. 



632. Myrichthys acuminatus (Gronow). 



West Indies, occasionally northward to Florida Keys. 



Munena acuminata Gronow, Fishes Brit. Mus,, 21, 1854, Insula Div. Eustachil. 



Genus 180. PISOODONOPHIS Kaup. 



Pisoodonophis Kau]), Apodal Fishes, 17, 1856 {horo). 



633. Pisoodonophis crueiitifer Goode &. Bean. 



Two specimens at Station 1035 of U. S. Fish Commission .steamer Fish Hawk, 

 39° 57' N., 69'3 28' W., in 120 fathoms; four others at nearly same region 

 in 245 fathoms. 



Pisoodonophis cruentifer Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 147, fig. 166, 

 1896, Gulf Stream. 



Genus 181. CALIECHELYS Kaup. 



CalJechelys Kaup, Apodes, 28, 1856 {guichenoti). 



634. Callechelys muraena Jordan & Everniann. 



Snapper Banks off Pensacola. 



Callecheh/s murcena .Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 466, Snap- 

 per Banks. 



Genus 182. BASCANICHTHYS Jordan & Davis. 



Ilascanichthys Jordan &. Davis, Apodal Fishes, 621, 1892 (hnscanium). 



635. Bascanichthys scuticaris (Goode & Bean). 



West coast of Florida. 



Sphagelyranchus scuticaris Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 343, Cedar 

 key, Florida. 



636. Bascanichthys peninsulae (Gilbert). 



La Paz Bay, Gulf of California, 



Callechelys peninsulw Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 548, La Paz Bay. 



637. Bascanichthys ba.scanium (Jordan). 



Egmont Key, Florida. 



Cuicula hascanium Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884, 43, Egmont Key, 

 Florida. 



