8 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CONTENTS OF TOL. III. 



Bean, Tarleton H. Description of a Ne-w Hato {Phycis Harlii), from South Carolina, and a 



Note on the Occurrence of Phycis regius in North Carolina C9 



Check-List of Duplicates of North American Fishes distributed by the Smithsonian 



Institution in behalf of the United States National Museum, 1877-'80 75 



Cattie, S. TH. On the Genitalia of Male Eels and their Sexual Characters 280 



ExDLiCH, Fred. M. List of Species and Varieties of Minerals in the National Museum of the 



United States in 1879 333 



Garman, Samuel. Synopsis and Descriptions of the American lihinobatidce 516 



Gill, TirEODOKE. On the Identity of the Genus Leurynnis Lockington, with Lycodopsis 



CoUett 247 



GooDE, G. Brown. Descriptions of Seven New Species of Fishes from Deep Soundings on the 

 Southern New England Coast, with Diagnoses of Two Undoscribed Genera of Flounders 

 and a Genus related to Merhicius 887 



Fishes from the Deep Water on the South Coast of New England obtained by the 



United States Fish Commission in the Summer of 1880 467 



The Frigate Mackerel {Auxis Rochei) on the Now England Coast 532 



Xotacanthus phasganonis, a New Species of Notacanthidce from the Grand Banks of 



Newfoundland 535 



Hat, 0. P. On a Collection of Fishes from Eastern Mississippi 45^^ 



Heilprix, Angelo. On Some New Species of Eocene Molhisca from the Southern United 



States lid 



Jordan, David S. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from East Florida, obtained by Dr. J. A. ' 



Henshall 17 



Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Saint John's Kiver, Florida, obtained by Mr. A. H. 



Curtiss 22 



Note on a Forgotten Paper of Dr. Ayres, and its Bearing on the Nomenclature of the 



Cyprinoid Fishes of the San Francisco Markets 32 



Note on "Sema" and "Dacentrus" 327 



Description of a New Species of Caranx ( Caranx Beani), from Beaufort, North Carolina . 486 



Jordan, DA^^D S., and Gilbert, Charles H. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from San 



Diego, California 23 



Description of a New Flounder (Xystreurysliolepis), from. Santa Catalina Island, Cali- 

 fornia J 34 



Description of a New Eay (Platyrhina triseriata), from the Coast of CaUlbrnia 36 



Description of a New Species of "KockCod" (Sebastichthys serriceps), from the Coast 



of California 38 



On the Occurrence of Cephaloseyllium laticeps (Dumeril) Gill on the Coast of California. 40 



On the Oil Shark of Southern California ( Galeorhin%ts galeus) 42 



Description of a New Floxvnder (Pleuronichthys verticalis), from the Coast of California, 



with Notes on Other Species 49 



Notes on Sharks from the Coast of California 51 



On the Generic Relations of Platyrhina exasperata 53 



Description of a New Species of Sebastichthys {Sebastichthys miniatiis) from Monterey 



Bay, California 70 



Description of a New Species of " Kock-fish" (Sebastichthys camatus), from the Coast 



of California 73 



Description of a New Species of Ray (Rata stellulata), from Monterey, California 133 



Description of New Species of Xiphister and Apodichfhys, from Montere>', California. . . 135 



• i Description of Two New Species oi' Sebastichthys {Sebastichthys entomelas and Sehastich 



thys rhodochloris), from Monterey Bay. California 142 



Description of a New Agonoid Fish {Brachiop»is xyostemus), from Moutero>- Baj , 



California 152 



Description of aNew Flounder {Hippofjlossoides exilis), from the Coast of California 154 



Description of a New Species of Ray {Raia rhina) from the Coast of California 257 



Description of Two New Species of Fishes (Ascelichthys rhodorus and Scytalina cerdale) 



from Neah Bay, Washington Territory 264 



Description of Two New Species of Scopeloid Fishes (Sudis ringens and Myctophum 



crenulare), from Santa Barbara Channel, California 273 



Description of Two New Species of Flounders (Parophrijs ischyunts and Illppogios- 



soides elassodon), from Pngct Sound 276 



Description of Seven New Species of Sebasioid Fishes, from the Coast of California ... 287 



Description of a New Embiotocoid (Abeuna aurora), from Monterey, (/aliloinia, with 



Notes on a Related Species 290 



Description of a New Flounder (Platysomatichthys stomias). from the Coast of Califor- 

 nia 304 



