304 KET'ORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 Family LXXIX. STOMIATIDiS. 



Genus 280. STOMIAS Cuvier. 



Stoniids Ciiviei-, Rfgiu; Aniin., •■<1. i. LSI, 1S17 U'oa). 



901. Stomias ferox Reinliardt. 



(Jreonland and southward; Gull' Stream (rom Baliiuna ( 'liMiiiudtoilic <iraud 



Hanks. 

 Slomidfi ferox Reinliardt. Vidonsk. Sclsk. Natiir\ ., etc.. x, 77, 1812, (irecnland. 



902. Stomias affinis Giinther. 



Sombrero Island. 



Stomias alJinit* (Jiinther, Deep Sen Fishes. ChalleTijicr, xxii. 2<'i.">. ])1. .54, fig. A, 

 1W7, off Sombrero Ishind. 



Genus 281. ECHIOSTOMA Lowe. 



Echiostoma Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. l>ond. 184B, 87 (harhafum). 



903. Echiostoma barbatum Lowe. 



Madeira; (Jloncester, Mass.. and sontlnvard in the (inlf Strenni to the old 



Bahama Channel. 

 Echiostoma barbatum Lowe, Proe. Zool. Soc. I^ond. 1843. X'^, Ma<leir;i. 



904. Echiostoma margarita Goode & Be:in. 



Middle of the Gnlf of Mexico. 



Echiostoma margarita Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology. !()!». (it^. 131, 1896, 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



r.i;f282. GRAMMATOSTOMIAS Goode & Bean. 

 G7-ammatostoiiiias Goode A:- Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology. 110, 18IM) (dentatiis). 



905. Grammatostomias dentatus Goode & Bean. 



Gulf Stream. 



Grainmatostomiax dentatus Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 110, fig. 133, 

 l^y6, Gulf Stream, in latitude 38^ 19' 20" N., longitude; GK^ 2' 30" W. 



Genus 283. PHOTONECTES Giinther. 



riiotoiiectes Giinther, Challenger Report, xxir, 212, 1887 (albipinms). 



906. Photonectes gracilis Goode & Bean. 



Martinique. 



Photonectes gracilis Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 112, 181»fi, ofT Martin- 

 ique, 



Family LXXX. MALACOSTEIDiE. 



Genus 284. MALACOSTEUS Ayres. 



Malaeosteus Ayres, Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1849, .'">3 (niger). 



907. Malacosteiis niger Ayres. 



0]iei) sea; (Julf Stream and southward to Barbados. 



Malacosteiis nit/er Ayres, .lour, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1849, 53, Gulf Stream, 42^"' 

 N., 60^ W.' 



Family LXXXI. ALEPISAURIDiE. The Lancet-Fishes. 



Genus 285. ALEPISAURUS Lowe. Lancet -fishes. 



Alepisaurns Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1833, 104 (ferox). 



Subgenus ALEPISAURUS Lowe. 



908. Alepisaurus ferox Lowe. 



Deep waters of the Atlantic; consts of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, and 



the (irand lianks. 

 Alepisaurnn ferox Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., i, 1833, 395, Madeira. 



