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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  [104J 
  

  

  Family 
  CXVIIL— 
  TEACHYPTEEIDiE. 
  (100) 
  

  

  389.— 
  TRACHYPTERUS 
  Gouan. 
  (331) 
  

  

  1212. 
  Trachypterus 
  altivelis 
  Knev. 
  B. 
  C. 
  (968) 
  

  

  Family 
  OX1X.— 
  BATHYMASTERID^E. 
  1 
  

  

  390.-BATHYMASTER 
  Cope. 
  (334) 
  

  

  1213. 
  Bathymaster 
  signatus 
  Cope. 
  A. 
  (971) 
  

  

  Family 
  CXX.— 
  MALACANTHIDiE. 
  (102) 
  

  

  391.— 
  LOPHOLATILUS 
  Goode 
  & 
  Bean. 
  (335) 
  

  

  1214. 
  Lopliolatilus 
  chamaeleonticeps 
  Goode 
  & 
  Beau. 
  B. 
  (972) 
  

  

  392. 
  -CAULOLATILUS 
  Gill. 
  (336) 
  

  

  1215. 
  Caulolatilus 
  princeps 
  Jeuyns. 
  C.P. 
  (973") 
  

  

  1216. 
  Caulolatilus 
  microps 
  2 
  Goode 
  & 
  Bean. 
  W. 
  (974) 
  

  

  Family 
  OXXL— 
  GOBIIDJ3. 
  (104) 
  

  

  393.— 
  GOBIOMORUS 
  Lacepedo. 
  (339) 
  

  

  1217. 
  Gobiomorus 
  dormitator 
  Lacdpedo. 
  W. 
  Vsw. 
  (978) 
  

  

  1218. 
  Gobiomoxus 
  lateralis 
  Gill. 
  3 
  P. 
  

  

  394.— 
  EROTELIS 
  Poey. 
  

  

  1219. 
  Erotelis 
  smaragdus 
  4 
  Cuv. 
  & 
  Val. 
  W. 
  

  

  1 
  1 
  have 
  Iiere 
  dismembered 
  the 
  unnatural 
  group 
  of 
  Icosteidce 
  as 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Synop- 
  

   sis, 
  referring 
  Icasteus 
  and 
  leichthys, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  the 
  views 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Steindachner 
  

   (Ichth. 
  Beitr.,XI, 
  4, 
  1881, 
  and 
  XII, 
  22, 
  1882), 
  to 
  the 
  Scombroid 
  series, 
  iu 
  the 
  neighbor- 
  

   bood 
  of 
  the 
  Bramidw. 
  Steindachner 
  considers 
  Schedophilus 
  the 
  nearest 
  ally 
  of 
  Icosteus 
  

   ( 
  = 
  SchedopMlopais 
  spinosus 
  Steindachner 
  1. 
  c), 
  and 
  this 
  may 
  bo 
  correct. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  Bathymaster 
  is 
  perhaps 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  a 
  separate 
  family, 
  allied 
  to 
  Halacan- 
  

   tlms, 
  Laiilus, 
  &c, 
  or 
  perhaps 
  to 
  Opisthognathus. 
  For 
  the 
  present, 
  I 
  unite 
  the 
  Latilidce 
  

   with 
  the 
  Malacanthidee, 
  leaving 
  Bathymaster 
  in 
  a 
  group 
  by 
  itself. 
  This 
  arrangement 
  

   is, 
  however, 
  merely 
  provisional, 
  until 
  the 
  anatomy 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  forms 
  is 
  made 
  

   known. 
  

  

  - 
  Caulolatilus 
  microps 
  Goode 
  & 
  Bean. 
  

  

  The 
  identity 
  of 
  our 
  Atlantic 
  species 
  of 
  Caulolatilus 
  with 
  either 
  the 
  Cuban 
  cyanops 
  

   or 
  the 
  Brazilian 
  chrysops 
  is 
  as 
  yet 
  unproven, 
  though 
  not 
  improbable. 
  The 
  scales 
  in 
  

   our 
  species 
  are 
  smaller 
  than 
  they 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  the 
  others. 
  There 
  is 
  little 
  differ- 
  

   ence 
  between 
  C. 
  microps 
  and 
  C. 
  princeps 
  except 
  in 
  color. 
  The 
  scales 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  have 
  

   each 
  a 
  small 
  brownish 
  spot 
  at 
  base 
  in 
  C. 
  microps. 
  

  

  zPhilypnus 
  lateralis 
  Gill, 
  Proc. 
  Ac.Nat.Sci.Phila.,1860, 
  L23; 
  Jordan 
  & 
  Gilbert, 
  Proc. 
  

   U.S.Nat.Mus., 
  1882, 
  380. 
  Streams 
  of 
  Northwestern 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  4 
  Eleoiris 
  smaragdus 
  Cuv. 
  & 
  Val. 
  Esmeralda 
  negra. 
  

  

  Dusky 
  olive, 
  the 
  lins 
  mostly 
  bluish, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  with 
  brown 
  lines; 
  some 
  dark 
  mark- 
  

   ings 
  about 
  eye, 
  and 
  on 
  base 
  of 
  pectoral 
  above. 
  Body 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  com- 
  

   pressed 
  behind, 
  the 
  form 
  mnch 
  as 
  in 
  Gobionellus 
  oceanicits. 
  Head 
  depressed, 
  flattish 
  

   above, 
  the 
  eyes 
  mostly 
  superior, 
  not, 
  half 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  inlerorbital 
  area, 
  which 
  

   has 
  a 
  knob 
  near 
  its 
  middle. 
  Mouth 
  very 
  oblique, 
  the 
  lower 
  jaw 
  much 
  projecting, 
  

  

  