[Vol. Ill, 1909.] Records of the Indian Museum. 183 



THE GENERIC NAME "INVESTIGATOR": 

 A CORRECTION. 



Since the publication of my memoir ' ' Investigator sicarius, a 

 Gephyrean worm hitherto undescribed, the type of a new order ' ' 

 {Memoirs of the Indian Museum^ vol. i, No. 4, 1909), the fact has 

 been brought to my notice that the name ''Investigator" has 

 already been appropriated. Goode and Bean in 1895 separated 

 the species Nemichthys acanthonotus , Alcock, from the genus 

 Nemichthys, and bestowed the name Investigator upon the new genus 

 thus formed (Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 518). It 

 may be noted that Alcock has not accepted this alteration 

 (Alcock, Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-Sea Fishes, 

 Calcutta, 1899). It is, however, necessary to find another name for 

 the Geph^-rean genus Investigator , and I therefore propose the Greek 

 form of the same word, namely, Ereunetes. 



Thus for Order Investigatoroidea read Order Ereunetoidea ; 

 for Genus Investigator read Genus Ereunetes ; type Ereunetes 

 sicarius. 



Calcutta : F. H. Stewart, 



June yth, 1909. 



