228 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Series TELEOSTEI. The Bony Fishes. 



Subclass OSTARIOPHYSI. 



Order M. NEMATOGNATHI. The Catfishes. 



Family XXXIV. SILURIDiE. The Catfishes. 



Genus 68. FELICHTHYS Swainson. Gaff-topsail Catfishes. 



Felichthys Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, ii, 305, 1839, substitute for Brevicepa 

 {bagir). 



160. Felichthys panamensis (Gill). 



Mazatlan to Panama; common. 



Ailurichthys panamensis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 172, Panama. 



161. Felichthys bagre (Linnaeus). 



Coast of lirazil, accredited to the West Indies, hut rare north of Surinam. 

 Sihirus bagre Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 505,1766, South America; after 

 Grouow. 



162. Felichthys pinnimaculatus (Steindachner). 



Mazatlan to Panama. 



Ailurichthys pinnimaculatus Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., iv, 15, 1875, Panama, 

 Altata, Costa Rica. 



163. Felichthys eydouxii (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Guayaquil. 



Galeichthys eydouxii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xv, 43, 1840, 

 Guayaquil. 



164. Felichthys filamentosus Swainson. 



Atlantic Coast of tropical America. 



Felichthys Jllamentosus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Anim., ii, 305, 1839; after Bloch, 

 pi. 365. 



165. Felichthys marinus (Mitchill). Sea Catfish; Gaff Topsail. 



Capo Cod to Texas. 



Silurus marinus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 433, New 

 York. 



166. Felichthys bahiensis (Castelnau). 



Mexico to Baliia. 



Galeichthys bahiensis Castlenau, Anim. Amer. Sud, 37, 18.55, Bahia. 



Genus 69. GALEICHTHYS Cuvier & Valenciennes. Sea Catfishes. 



Galeichthys Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xv, 28, 1840 (feliceps). 



167. Galeichthys lentiginosus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann). 



Panama. 



Tachisiirus lentiginosus Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888, 139, 

 I'anama. 



168. Galeichthys peruvianus Liitken. 



Pacitic (oast of Mexico to Peru. 



Galeichthys peruvianus Liitken, Vidensk. Med. 1874, 204, Callao, Peru. 



Subgenus HEXANEMATICHTHYS Blecker. 



Ilexanematichthya Bleeker, Ichthyol. Archip. Indici Siluri, 61, 1858 (sundaicua). 



169. Galeichthys felis (Linnjeus). Sea Catfish. 



Cape Cod to Texas. 



Silurus felis Linna'us, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 503, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina. 



170. Galeichthys seemani (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Arius seemani Giinther, Cat., v, 147, 1864, " Central America." 



