2826 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



Page 531. In key under h, for " incomplete" read " complete." 



Page 537. We can not separate Synodus jenkinsi from Synodas sciluliceps, 

 and the former name should probably be abandoned. 



Page 555. Macrostoma angustidens and related species need further 

 study. The synonymy and application of the names angnstidens, elottgatus, 

 and resplendens are uncertain. Macrostoma brachyclrir is probably a good 

 species. 



In M. caudispinosum the dorsal has 20, not 36, rays. 



Page 580. The generic name Bonapartia, Goode & Beau, is preoccu- 

 pied in ornithology. For its use in fishes the name Zaphotias is proposed, 

 taking the same species (pedaliota) as type. The genus and its species 

 would then stand as follows : 



274. ZAPHOTIAS, Goode & Bean, new generic name. 



(Zaphotias, having organs which emit light; C, intensive particle; 0(*>?, 

 light.) 



872. ZAPHOTIAS PEDALIOTUS (Goode & Bean). 



Page 582. Cyvlothone microdon occurs also in Bering Sea in very deep 

 water. 



Page 586. Astroneslhes is from atirpov, star; ^tffl???, vestment. 



Page 594. Plagyodus (Steller) should probably supersede Alepisaurus, 

 in which case the family becomes Plagyodontidce. 



Page 603. Sternoptyx diaphana is common off both the Japanese and 

 Hawaiian islands. 



Page 608. For Aldrorandia, Goode & Bean, substitute the earlier name 

 Halosauropsis, Collett. 

 Hallosauropsis, COLLETT, Camp. Sci. Hirondelle, June, 1896, 143 (macrochir). 



Page 618. Add: 



916(a). MACDONALDIA ALTA, GUI & Townsend. 



D. 32; A. 31 to end of dorsal, 52 spines, 125 rays. Body comparatively 

 high, greatest height equal to 3f the distance between vent and tip of 

 snout; pectoral fin with its root twice as far from upper cleft of branchial 

 aperture as from the lateral line, and much nearer to the posterior end of 

 operculum than to lateral line. Bering Sea ; only the type known, (altus, 

 deep.) 



Macdonaldia aUa, GILL & TOWNSEND, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 232, 

 Bering Sea, Lat. N. 54 54', Long. W. 168 59', Albatross Station 3604, Aug. 13, 1895- 

 in 1,401 fathoms. (Type, No. 48774, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatross.) 



916(b). MACDONALDIA LONGA, Gill & Townsend. 



D. 33 ; A. 26 to opposite end of dorsal, 55 spines, 111 rays. Body com- 

 paratively slender, with the greatest height about | distance between 

 vent and tip of snout; pectoral fin with its root 3 times as far from upper 

 cleft of branchial aperture as from lateral line, and very much nearer 



