302 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Genus 270. TARLETONBEANIA Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



I'arU'ionheania Eigeuuiauu & Eigcuiuauu, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., iv, 1890, 7 

 (tenua). 



884. Tarletoiibeaiiia crenularis (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Sauta Barbara Channel; coast of Washington. 



Mjictopltum creniilare Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 274, Santa 

 Barbara, Caliloruia. 



885. Tarletonbeania tenua Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Corouado Islands, near San Diego. 



Tarlitonheania tenua Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., I v, 1890, 

 7, Coronado Islands, near San Diego, California. 



Family LXXVI. MAUROLICID-SI. 



Genus 271. MAUROLICUS Cocco. 

 MauroVicus Cocco, Lett. su. Salmon., 32, 1838 (amethystino =punctatu8). 



886. Maurolicus pennanti (Walbaum). 



Open seas, widely distributed ; New England coast at Nahant, Provincetown, 



Woods Hole, etc. 

 Argentina pennanti Walbaum, Artedi Piec, 17, 1792, England; after " Sheppy 



argentine" of Pennant. 



Genus 272. VINCIGUERRIA Jordan & Evermann. 



I'iticigiierria Jordan A Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, .577, 

 1896 (attenuata) . 



887. Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco). 



Open Atlantic, west to the Bahama region. 



MauroUcus attenuatiis Cocco, I^ett. su. Salmon., 33, 1838, coast of Italy. 



Genus 273. VALENCIENNELLUS Jordan & Evermann. 



ValencienneUits Jordan A: Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 577, 

 1896 {tri2)unctulatus). 



888. Valencieimellus tripunctulatus (Esmark). 



Madagascar ; Denmark Straits, between Greenland and Iceland. 

 Maurolicus tripunctulatus Esmark, Christiania Yid. Selsk. Forh., 4S8, 1870, 

 Madagascar. 



Family LXXVII. CHAULIODONTID-ai. The Viper-Fishes. 



Genus 274. GONOSTOMA Rafinesque. 



Gonostoma Uafinesciue, Indico d'lttiologia Siciliana, (ii, 1810 (denuilatum). 



889. Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque. 



Gulf of Mexico at Albatross Station 2665; oil' Morocco and C'apo Verdea; 



Mediterranean Sea. 

 Gonostoma denudata Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiol. Sicil., 65, 1810, Palermo. 



890. Gonostoma brevidens Kner A: Steindachner. 



(irenada; Bahama Ciiannel ; Bequia. 



Gonostoma b7-eridcns i-^ner &. Steindachner, Sit/b. Akad. Wissenseh., Wien, 

 LXi, 1870,443, Atlantic. 



Genus 275. BONAPARTIA Goode & Bean. 



Bonapartia (ioode A. Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 102, 1896 (pedaliota). 



891. Bonapartia pedaliota Goode & Bean. 



Gulf Stream. 



Bonapartia pedaliota Goode A- Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 102, fig. 120, 1896, 

 Gulf Stream, at Albatross Station 2642. 



