488 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2836. Prionotus rubio Jordan. Ruhio Volador. 



West Indies. 



Prionotus rubio Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 50, Havana. 



2837. Prionotus ophryas Jordan & Swain. 



Gnlf of Mexico, Snapper Banks, near Pensacola, Florida. 

 Pr(o»o/)/s oyJov/as Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884,542, Snapper 

 Banks, otit' Pensacola, Florida. 



2838. Prionotus stearnsi Jordan & Swain. 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Prionotus stearnsi Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 541, Pensacola 



2839. Prionotus strigatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Ped-winged Gurnard. 



Atlantic Coast of the Northern States, Cnpi^ Cod to Virginia. 

 Prionotus strigatus Cuv. &. Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 86, 1829, New York. 



2840. Prionotus evolans Linnasus. Striped Gurnard. 



South Atlantic Coast of United States. 



Prionotus crolans Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Am., 21, 1861, name only. 



2841. Prionotus punctatus Bloch. 



West Indies and coast of South America. 



Prionotus punctatus Bloch, Ichth., pi. 353, 1793, Martinique; on a drawing by 

 Plumier. 



2842. Prionotus beanii Goode. 



Off Trinidad. 



Prionotust beanii Goode, in Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 468, 1896, off 

 Trinidad. 



2843. Prionotus tribulus Cuvier &, Valenciennes. Big-headed Gurnard. 



South Atlantic Coast, from Long Island to Brazos. 



Prionotus tribulus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 98, pi. 74, 

 1829, New York ; Carolina. 



2844. Prionotus horrens Richardson. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America. 



Prionotus horrens Richardson, Voy. Sulph., Ichth., 79, pi. 42, figs. 1-3, 1843, 

 Gulf of Fonseca. 



Genus 944. BELLATOR * Jordan & Evermann. 

 Bellator Jordan & Evermann, new genus (militaris). 



2845. Bellator militaris (Goode & Bean). 



Off Cape Catoche, Yucatan; Gulf of Mexico. 



Prionotus militaris Goode & Bean, Ocean. Ichth., 464, figs. 380 and 384, 1896, 

 off Cape Catoche, Yucatan. 



Genus 945. CHELIDONICHTHYS Kaup. 



Kaup, Archiv f. Naturgeschichte 1873, 87 (hirundo). 



2846. Chelidonichthys pictipinnis (Kaup). 



Barbados. 



Chelidonichthys pictipinnis Kaup,t Archiv f. Naturg. 1873, 87, Barbados (?). 



Genus 946. TEIGLA (Artedi) Linnaeus. Plated Gurnards. 



Trigla (Artedi) Linnjcus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 300, 1758 (cuculus). 



2847. Trigla cuculus Linn?eus. Bed Gurnard. 



Southern Europe. Said by Cuvier to have been brought once from New 



York by Milbert; record probably erroneous. 

 Trigla cuculus Linnieus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 301, 1758, Mediterranean, in the 



open sea. 



* Distinguished by its greatly elongate dorsal spines. 



t The typo of tiii-s species examined by us seems to bo in8ei)arable from Chelidonichthys kumuoi the 

 South Pa'cilic. It probably is not Americau. 



