488 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2836. Piionotus rubio Jordan. Iiuhio T'olador. 



West Indies. 



Piionotus rubio Jordan, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, .50, Havana. 



2837. Prionotus ophryas Jordan & Swain. 



CJulf of Mexico, Sna])per I5anks, near Pensacola, Florida. 

 I'rioiiuluf) ophryas .Un-(\;u\ A: Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1884,542, Snapper 

 Jiauks, oil' Pensacola, Florida. • 



2838. Prionotus stearnsi Jordan & Swain. 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Vrionotus stearnsi Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1884, 541, Pensacola 



2839. Prionotus strigatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Jxed-iviiiffcd Ciirnard. 



Atlantic Coast of the Northern States, Cnpc Cod to Yirfjinia. 

 Prionotus stritjatus Cnv. die Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 8G, 1829, New York. 



2840. Prionotus evolans Linnajus. Striped Gurnard. 



South Atlantic Coast of United States. 



Prionotus erolans Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Am., 21, 1861, name only. 



2841. Prionotus punctatus Bloch. 



West Indies and coast of South America. 



Prionotus punctatus Bloch, Ichth., pi. 353, 1793, Martinique; on a drawing by 

 Plumier. 



2842. Prionotus beanii Goode. 



Off Trinidad. 



Prionotus beanii Goodc;, in Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 468, 1896, off 

 Trinidad. 



2843. Prionotus tribulus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Big-headed Gurnard. 



South Atlantic Coast, from Long Island to Brazos. 



Prionotus tribulus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 98, pi. 74, 

 1829, New York; Carolina. 



2844. Prionotus horrens Richardson. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America. 



Prionotus horrens Richardson, Voy. Sulph., Ichth., 79, j)!. 42, figs. 1-3, 1843, 

 Gulf of Fonseca. 



Genus 944. BELLATOR * Jordan & Evermaim. 



BeUator .Jordan iV Evermann, new genus (militaris). 



2845. Bellator militaris (Goode & Bean). 



OtV Capo Catoche, Yucatan; Gulf of Mexico. 



Prionotus viilitaris Goode it Bean, Ocean. Ichth., 464, figs. 380 and 384, 1896, 

 off Cape Catoche, Yucatan. 



Genus 945. CHELIDONICHTHYS Kaup. 



Kanp, Archiv f. Naturgeschichte 1873, 87 (hirundo). 



2846. Chelidonichthys pictipinnis (Kanp). 



Barbados. 



Chelidonichthijs i)iotijnnnis Kaup,t Archiv f. Naturg. 1873, 87, Barbados (?). 



Genus 946. TEIGLA (Artedi) Linnaeus. Plated Gurnards. 



Trigla (Artedi) Linuicus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 300, 1758 (cuculus). 



2847. Trigla cuculus Linn.Tus. Bed Gurnard. 



Sonthorn Europe. Said by Cuvier to have been brought once from New 



York by Milbert ; record probably erroneous. 

 Trigla cuculus LinniBus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 301, 1758, Mediterranean, in the 



open sea. 



* Distinguished by its greatly eloncate dorsal spines. 



t The type of tliis'specics esaniincdbv ns seems to bo insei)arable from Chelidonichthys Arumuof the 

 South Pacific. It probably is not Americau. 



