CHECK- LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN FISHES. 475 



Genus 879. XIPHISTES Jordan & Staiks. 



X'qjJiistes Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 846 {chinis). 



2706. Xiphistes ulvge Jordan & Starks. 



Waadda Island, Neah Hay, 



A'jj)/i)s/es ulvw Jordan & Stark.s, Fishes Paget Sound, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 

 1895, 847, pi. 102, Waadda Island, Neah Bay. 



2707. Xiphistes chirus (Jordan & Cill)ert). 



Monterey to Alaska. 



Xiphistes chirus Jordan & Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 135, Los Pinos 

 Point, near Monterey, California. 



Genus 880. XIPHIDION Girard. 



Xiphidiou Girard, Pac. R. R. Snrv., x, 119, 1858 {inucosum). 



2708. Xiphidion mucosum Girard. 



Monterey to Alaska. 



Xiphidion miicositm Girard, Pac. R. R. Snrv., 119, 1858, South Farallone Island, 

 oft' California. 



2709. Xiphidion rupestre (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Pacific Coast, from Alaska to Monterey. 



Xiphister rupestris .iordiin & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 137, Monte- 

 rey, California. 



Genus 881. CEBEDIGHTHYS Ayres. 



Cebedichthys Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., i, 1855, 59 (riolaceus). 



2710. Cebedichthys violaceus (Girard). 



San Francisco to Point Conception. 



Apodichlhtfs t^iolaceiis Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 150, Monterey, 

 California, 



Genus 882. PLAGIOGRAMMUS Bean. 



riagiogrammus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1893, 699 {hopl-insi). 



2711. Plagiogrammus hopkinsi Bean. 



Monterey, California. 



I'lagiograimnus hopkinsi Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 189.3, 699, plate, Monterey 

 Bay, California. 



Family CXCIX. STICHiEIDiE. 



Genus 883. EUMESOGEAMMUS GiU. 



Ettmesogrammus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 210 {pira-ciaus). 



2712. Eumesogrammus praecisus (Kroyer). 



Greenland. 



Clinus pra'cisus Kroyer, Naturb. Tidsskr., i, 25, 1836, Greenland. 



Genus 884. ULVAEIA* Jordan & Evermann. 



Z7/ra?-ia Jordan &Evermann, new genus (suhbifurcata) . 



2713. Ulvaria subbifurcata (Storer). 



North Atlantic, south to Cape Cod. 



PhoUs snbhifiircatiis Storer, Rept. Fish. Mass., 63, 1839 (Massachusetts). 



Genus 885. STICH.ffi;US Reinhardt. 

 Stichwiis Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Natur. og Math. Afhandl. 1837, 109 

 (purictatus). 



2714. Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius). 



Polar seas, south to Cape Cod and Alaska. 



Blenniua punctatus Fabricius, Fauna Green., 153, 1870, Greenland. 



* Distinguished from Eumeiogrammus by the lateral line, which forks into two. 



