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2593. Dactyloscopus tridigitatus Gill. 



West Indies, north t.) Key West. 



Dacti/loscopiis tridhjitatan Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila, 1859, 132, Barbados. 



2594. Dactyloscopus poeyi Gill. 



Cuba. 



Dactyloscopus poeyi Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1861, 266, Cuba. 



2595. Dactyloscopus lunaticus Gilbert. 



Gulf of California. 



Dactyloscopus lunaticus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1890, 99, Gulf of California. 



SHbgenus ESLOSCOPUS* .Jordan & Evermaiin. 

 Esloscopus .Jordan & Evermann, new subgenus (zelotes). 



2596. Dactyloscopus zelotes Jordan & Gilbert. 



Panama. 



Dactyloscopus zelotes ' Jordan & Gilbert new species, Panama. 



Genus 830. DACTYLAGNUS Gill. 

 Dactylagnus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 505 (mandus). 



2597. Dactylagnus mundus Gill. 



Carmen Island, Gulf of California. 



Dactylagnus mundus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci, Phila. 1862, 505, Carmen Island, 

 Gulf of California. 



Genus 831. MYXODAGNUS Gill. 

 Myxodagnus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 269 (opercularis) 



2598. Myxodagnus opercularis Gill. 



Cape San Lucas, Lower California. 



Myxodagnus opercularis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 270, Cape San 

 Lucas, Lower California. 



Family CXCIV. URANOSCOPIDiE. The Star-Gazers. 



Genus 832. ASTROSCOPTIS (Brevoort) Gill. Star-gazers. 

 Astroscopns (Brevoort) Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 20 (anoplus). 



2599. Astroscopus y-graecum (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



South Atlantic Coast, from Cape Hatteras to the Caribbean Sea, 

 Uranoscopus y-grwcum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 308, 

 1829, origin unknown. 



2600. Astroscopus zephyrius Gilbert &. Starks. 



Magdalena Bay, Lower California. 



Astroscopus zephyrius Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, Magda- 

 lena Bay, Lower California. 



2601. Astroscopus guttatus Abbott. 



Atlantic Coast of the United St-ates, from Long Island to Virginia; not 



known south of Capo Hatteras. 

 Astroscopus guttatus Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 365, Cape May, 



New Jersey. 



Genus 833. KATHETOSTOMA Giinther. 



Kathetostoma Giinther, Cat., ii, 231, 1860 {Iwve). 



2602. Kathetostoma averruncus Jord.an & Bolliuau. 



Pacific Oceau, off coast of Colombia. 



Kathetostoma averruncus Jordan & Bollinan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 163 ; 



off coast of Colombia, 8-^ 57' N., 79- 31' 30 " W., at Albatross Station 



2800, in 7 fathoms. 



Subgenus and species based on description of Dactyloscopus sp. nov., .Jordan & (Jilbcrt, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 628; not D. mundus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 1862, 50, 

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