PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 5 



C. — PROCEEDINGS. 



Department of the Interior : | U. S. National Museum. | — 17 — | Pro- 

 ceedings I of the I United States National Museum. | Vol. I. | 1878. | 



— I Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. | 



— I Washington: | Government Printing OfiQce. | 1879. (17) 



8vo,pp. iv, 520, 8 Jigs., 8 plates. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



Page. 

 Bean, Tarleton H. Description of a New Sparoid Fisli, Sargus Holbrookii, from Savannah 



Bank 198 



On the occurrence of Stichceus punctatus (Fabr.) Kroyer, at St. Michael's, Alaska 279 



On the Identity of Eiichtdarodus Putnami GiU, with Pleuronectes glaber (Storer) Gill, 



with Notes on the Habits of the Species 345 



Description of a Species of Lycodes (L. Turneri) from Alaska, believed to be nnde- 



scribed 463 



See also under Goode and Bean. 



Belding, L. A Partial List of the Birds of Central California 388 



Cook, Caleb. The Manufacture of Porpoise-Oil 16 



Dall, W. H. Descriptions of New Forms of Mollusks from Alaska contained in the Collec- 

 tions of the National Museum I 



Postpliocene Fossils in the Coast Range of California 3 



Fossil MoUasks from Later Tertiaries of California 10 



Note on Shells from Costa Kica Kitchenmidden, collected by Drs. Flint and Bransford. . 23 



Distribution of California Tertiary Fossils 26 



Descriptions of New Species of Shells from California in the Collections of the Na- 

 tional Museum 46 



Eeport on the Limpets and Chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic Kegions, with Descrip- 

 tions of Genera and Species believed to be new 281 



Edwards, Vinal N. On the Occurrence of the Oceanic Bonito, Orcynus pelamys (Linn6) Poey, 



in Vineyard Sound, Mass .~". 263 



Gill, Theodore. Synopsis of the Pediculate Fishes of the Eastern Coast of Extratropical 



North America 215 



Note on the AntennarUdoe 221 



On the Propjer Specilic Name of the Common Pelagic Antennariid Pterophryne 223 



Note on the Ceratiidce 227 



Note on the Maltheidce .--. 231 



Goode, G. Brown. The Clupea tyrannus of Latrobe 5 



The Occurrence of Belone latimanus in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts 6 



The Voices of Crustaceans 7 



A Revision of the American Species of the Genus Brevoortia, with a Description of a 



New Species from the Gulf of Mexico 30 



The Occurrence of Hippocampus antiquorum, or an Allied Form, on Saint George's 



Banks 45 



The Occurrence of the Canada Porcupine in West Virginia 204 



On Two Fishes from the Bermudas mistakenly described as new by Dr. Giinther 462 



Goode, G. Brown, and Tarleton H. Bean. The Craig Flounder of Europe, Olyptocephalus 



cynoglossus, on the Coast of North America -• 10 



The Oceanic Bonito on the Coast of the United States 24 



•^— Description of Caulolatilus microps, a New Species of Fish from the Gulf Coast of 



Florida 42 



On a New Serranoid Fish, Epinephelus Drummond-Hayi, from the Bermudas and 



Florida 173 



Descriptions of Two New Species of Fishes, Lutjanus Blackfordii and Lutjanus 



Stearnsii, from the Coast of Florida 176 



A Note upon the Black Grouper {Epinephelus nigritus (Holbrook) Gill) of the Southern 



Coast 182 



Descriptions of Two Gadoid Fishes, Phyci^ Chesteri and Haloporphyrus viola, from the 



Deep-Sea Fauna of the Northwestern Atlantic 256 



Description of Argentina syrtensium, a New Deep-Sea Fish from Sable Island Bank 201 



■ The Identity of Rhinonemus caudacuta (Storer) Gill with Oadus dm brius Linn 348 



