302 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Genus 270. TARLETONBEANIA Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Tarltionheania Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., iv, 1890, 7 

 {tenua). 



884. Tarletonbeauia crenularis (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Santa Barbara Channel; coast of Washington. 



Myctophum crenulare .Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, 1880,274, Santa 

 Barbara, California. 



885. Tarletonbeauia tenua Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Coronado Islands, near San Diego. 



Tarletonheania tenua Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., iv, 1890, 

 7, Coronado Islands, near San Diego, California. 



Family LXXVI. MAUROLICIDiE. 



Genus 271. MAUROLICTIS Cocco. 



MauroUcus Cocco, Lett. su. Salmon., 32, 1838 {amethystino =^ punctatns). 



886. Maurolicus pennant! (Walbaum). 



Open seas, widely distributed ; New England coast at Nahant, Proviucetown, 



Woods Hole, etc. 

 Argentina jpennanti Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 47, 1792, England; after " Shejyjry 



argentine" of Pennant. 



Genus 272. VINCIGUERKIA Jordan & Evermann. 



Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 577, 

 1896 (atienuaia). 



887. Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco). 



Open Atlantif, west to the Bahama region. 



MauroUcus attenuatus Cocco, Lett. su. Salmon., 33, 1838, coast of Italy. 



Genus 273. VALENCIENNELLTIS Jordan & Evermann. 



Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 577, 

 1896 {tj-ipunctulatus) . 



888. Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark). 



]\Iadagascar ; Denmark Straits, between Greenland and Iceland. 

 MauroUcus tripunctuhitus Esmark, Christiania Vid. Selsk. Forh., 488, 1870, 

 Madagascar. 



Family LXXVII. CHAULIODONTIDiE. The Viper-Fishes. 



Genus 274. GONOSTOMA Rafinesque. 



Gonostoma Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiologia Siciliana, 64, 1810 (deuudntum). 



889. Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque. 



Gulf of Mexico at Albatross Station 2665; off Morocco and CapeVerdes; 



Mediterranean Sea. 

 Gonostoma denudata Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiol. Sicil., 65, 1810, Palermo. 



890. Gonostoma brevidens Kner & Steindachner. 



Grenada; Bahama Channel ; Bequia. 



Gonostoma brevidens Kner & Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wisseuscli., Wien, 

 LXi, 1870, 443, Atlantic. 



Genus 275. BONAPARTIA Goode & Bean. 



Bonapartla Goode it Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 102, 1896 (pedaliota). 



891. Bonapartia pedaliota Goode &. Bean. 



Gulf Stream. 



Bonapartia jyedaUota Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 102, fig. 120, 1896, 

 Gulf Stream, at Albatross Station 2642. 



