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Subgenus HOLORHINUS Gill. 



Rolorhinm Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 331 {vesjjertilio—californicus). 



138. Myliobatis californicus Gill. California Sting Bay; Batfish. 



California, from Cape Mendocino southward. 



MijUobaiis ca?(/or«ictts Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1865, 137; after Girard. 



Genus 57. KHINOPTEKA Kuhl. 



Bhinoptera Knhl, in Cuvier, Rfeigne Animal, ed. 2, vol. ii, 401, 1829 (marginata). 



Subgenus BHIXOPTERA Kuhl. 



139. Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill). Cow-nose Bay. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 



Baja ionasus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. 1815, 479, New York. 



140. Rhinoptera steindachneri Evermann & Jenkins. Gabilan. 



Gulf of California. 



Bhinoptera steindachneri Evermann & .Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 130, 

 pi. 1, fig. 1, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. 



Subgenus MICBOMESUS Gill. 



Micromesus Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1865, 136 (adspersiis). 



141. Rhinoptera ensenadae Rosa Smith. 



West coast of Lower California. 



Bhinoptera ensenada'. Rosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 220, Ensenada, 

 Lower California. 



Family XXVIII. MANTIDiE. The Sea Devils. 



Genus 68. AODON Lacepede. 



Aodon Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 300, 1798 (maasassa). 



142 Aodon hypostomus (Bancroft). 

 Jamaica. 

 Cephalopterus hypostomus Bancroft, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. 1830, 134, Jamaica. 



Genus 59. MANTA Bancroft. 



Mania Bancroft, Zool. Jour., iv, 1828-29, 444 (mania =Urostri8). 



143. Manta birostris (Walbaum). Sea Devil; Devil-fish; Mania. 



Tropical waters of America ; north to New Jersey and San Diego ; not rare on 



the Florida coast. 

 Baia hirostris Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, 535, 1792; after Diabolus mariniis 



Willughby, etc. 



Subclass HOLOCEPHALI. The Chimeeras. 



Order H. CHIMiEROIDEI. The ChimEeroids. 



Family XXIX. CHIM^RIDiE. The Chimseras. 



Genus 60. CKDILIERA Linnaeus. Elephant-fishes. 



Chimwra Linnajus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 236, 1758 (monstrosa). 



144. Chimaera monstrosa LinnsEus. Chimo'ra. 



Deep waters off" the coast of Europe ; also recorded bv Poey at Matanzas, 



Cuba. 

 Chimwra monstrosa Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 236, 1758, Atlantic. 



145. Chimaera afBnis Capello. 



Deep waters of the Atlantic, oft' Portugal and off the American coast from 



Cape Cod northward. 

 Chimwra affinis Capello, Jour. Soc. Math. Lisb., iv, 1868, 314, pi. iii, coast of 

 Portugal. 



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