304 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 Family LXXIX. STOMIATIDiE. 



Genus 280. STOMIAS Cuvier. 



Stomins Cuvier, Rogue Anim., ed. i. 1S4, 1817 (hoa). 



901. Stomias ferox Reinhcardt. 



Greenland and southward; Gulf Stream from Biiliania Channel to tlie (Jrand 



Banks. 

 Stomias ferox Reiuhardt, Yidensk. Selsk. Natnrv., etc., x, 77, 1842, Cirecnlaud. 



902. Stomias affinis Gunther. 



Somhrero Island. 



Stomias affinis Giintber, Deep Sea Fishes, Challenger, xxn, 2()r>, pi. .54, fig. A, 

 1887, off Somhrero Island. 



Genus 281. ECHIOSTOMA Lowe. 



Echiostoma Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1843, 87 (barlatum). 



903. Bchiostoma barbatum Lowe. 



Madeira; Gloucester, Mass., and southward in the Gulf Stre.nni to the old 



Bahama Channel. 

 Echiostoma barbatum Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1843, 88, Madeira. 



904. Bchiostoma margarita Goode & Bean. 



Middle of the Gulf of Mexico. 



Echiostoma margarita Goode & Bean, Oceanir Ichthyology, 1(H). lig. 131, 1896, 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



r. TIE 282. GRAMMATOSTOMIAS Goode & Bean. 



Grammatostomias Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology. 110, 18.% (dentatus). 



905. Grammatostomias dentatus Goode & Bean. 



Gulf Stream. 



Grainrnatostomias dentatus Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyologv, 110, fig. 133, 

 1896, Gulf Stream, in latitude 38° 19' 20" N., longitude 69"'2' 30" W. 



Genus 283. PHOTONECTES Giinther. 



Fhotonectes Giinther, Challenger Report, xxii,212, 1887 [albipinnis). 



906. Photonectes gracilis Goode & Bean. 



Martinique. 



Photonectes gracilis Goode «fc Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 112, 1896, off Martin- 

 ique. 



Family LXXX. MALACOSTEID-ffS. 



Genus 384. MALACOSTEUS Ayres. 

 Malacosteus Ayres, Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1849, .'")3 (niger). 



907. Malacosteus niger Ayres. 



Open sea; Gulf Stream and southward to Barbados. 



Malacosteus nit/er Ayres, Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hi,st. 1849, 53, Gulf Stream, 42^^ 

 N., 60'^ W'. 



Family LXXXI. ALEPISAURID-ffi. The Lancet-Fishes. 



Genus 285. ALEPISAURUS Lowe. Lancet-fishes. 



Alepisaurus Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1833, 104 (ferox). 



Subgenus ALEPIS.iURUS Lowe. 



908. Alepisaurus ferox Lowe. 



Deep waters of the Atlantic; coasts of Nova Scotia and Mas.sachnsetts. and 



the (4rand Banks. 

 Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. I.cuuL, i, 1833, 395, Madeira. 



