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Genus 909. BOTHEOCAKA Bean. 

 Bothrocara Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 38 {mollis). 



2766. Bothrocara mollis Bean. 



Coast of British Columbia. 



Bothrocara mollis Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 39, off Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, iu 876 fatlioms. 



Genus 910 GYMNELIS Reinhardt. 



Gymnelis Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Afhaudl., vir, 1838, 131 (viride), 



2767. Gymnelis viridis Reinhardt. 



Arctic seas, south to Alaska and Nova Scotia. 



Gymnelis viridis Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk, Selsk. Afh., vii, 1838, 131, 

 Greenland. 



Genus 911. LYCOCARA Gill. 

 Lycocara Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884, 180 (parrii). 



2768. Lyoocara parrii (Ross). 



Baffins Bay. 



Ophidium parrii Ross, Parry's Third Voyage, App. 109, 1826, Baffins Bay. 



Genus 912. MELANOSTIGMA Giinther. 



Melanostiyma Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1881, 21 (gelalinosum). 



2769. Melanostigma gelatinosum Giinther. 



Deep waters of the western Atlantic ; originally known from the Straits of 

 Magellan, but since obtained iu various localities from Cape Cod to the 

 West Indies. 



Melanostigma (/elatinosnm Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, 21, pi. 2, 

 fig. A, Straits of Magellan. 



2770. Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert. 



Coast of Alaska. 



Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Com, 1893 (1896), 472, pi. 



35, coast of Alaska, at Albatross Station 3202, latitude 36^ 46' 10 " N., 



longitude 121'^ 58' 45" W., in 382 fathoms. 



Family CCV. SCYTALINIDiE. 



Genus 913. SCYTALINA Jordan & GUbert. 



Scytalina .Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 266 (cerdale). 



2771. Scytalina cerdale Jordan & Gilbert. 



Straits of Juan de Fuca, Waadda Island, near Cape Flattery. 

 Scytalina cerdale .Fordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 266, 

 Waadda Island, Neah Bay. 



Family CCVI. DEREPODICHTHYIDiE. 



Genus 914. DEREPODICHTHYS Gilbert. 



Derepodichthys Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. 1893 (1896), 456 (alepidotus). 



2772. Derepodichthys alepidotus Gilbert. 



Coast of British Columbia, off Queen Charlotte Island. 

 Derepodichthys alepidotus Gilbert, Rept. U. S. J'ish Com. 1893 (1896), 456, Queen 

 Charlotte Island, at Albatross Station 3342, in 1,588 fathoms. 



Family CCVII. OPHIDIIDiE. 



Genus 915. lEPOPHIDIUM Gill. 

 Lepophidinm Gill. Am. Nat., xxix, 1895, 167, substitute for Leptophidium 

 Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 210 (profundorum); preoccupied in 

 Serpents by Leptophidium Hallowell, 1860. 



2773. Lepophidium marmoratum (Goode & Bean). 



Gulf Stream. 



Leptophidium marmoratum Goode &. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 423, lati- 

 tude 23^ 10' 39 " N., longitude 82^ 30' 21" W., iu 213 fathoms. 

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