Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2867 



rays of dorsal and anal. Unlike all other Liparids, the caudal is forked 

 at tip, the terminal notch involving about f of fin. Translucent dusky, 

 darker around snout, gill openings, and on the fins, the vertical fins 

 largely jet-black ; mouth and gill cavity dusky, not black. This species 

 is most nearly related to Careproctus melanurus, from which it differs in 

 darker coloration and shorter gill slit. From all known species of 

 Careproctus it differs in the very elongate caudal fin wnich is forked at 

 the tip. Bering Sea and North Pacific. The type, a single specimen, 

 21 cm. long, dredged at Albatross Station 3644, off' Bogoslof Island, at a 

 depth of 664 fathoms. A second specimen was obtained by the Albatross 

 in 1889, at Station 3074, off the coast of Washington, in 877 fathoms, but 

 it was too seriously mutilated to admit of description. (Hvif)e\6$, a 

 swift; ovpd, tail.) 



Page 2175. The genus Chelidonichthys should be compared with Trigla 

 rather than with Prionotus. 



CheUdonichthys pictipinnis is probably not American, and should be 

 omitted or, at most, admitted only in a footnote. 



The genus Chelidonichthys differs from Trigla in the absence of lateral 

 plates. 



Page 2183. To the synonymy of Cephalacanthus add : 

 Cephalacandia, RAFINESQUE, Anal, de la Nature 1815, 85; substitute for Cephalacanthus. 



Page 2196, line 5, for "Palieca" read "Puiieca." 



Page 2207. Sicya being preoccupied in Lepidopterawe substitute for 

 our use of it the name Sicyosus. 

 Sicyosus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, new subgenus (gymnogaster). 



Page 2207. Add the following species : 



2531 (a). SICYDIUM PTJNCTATUM, Perugia. 



D. VI-1, 11 ; A. 1, 10 ; scales 56. Head 5 in total length without caudal, 

 its width equaling its height or f that of body under first dorsal. Scales of 

 body larger than those of head or nape ; maxillary reaching posterior bor- 

 der of eye. Eye 4 in head, or l^in interorbital space. Snout 4; pectoral 

 equaling head in length ; spines of first dorsal somewhat elongated, the 

 longest (third) twice height of body; second dorsal as high as body and 

 like the anal. Teeth of upper jaw fine, very slender, and ending behind 

 in an obtuse angle; lower jaw with conic robust teeth and minute hori- 

 zontal ones. Color grayish, the ventral gall color (giallognolo) ; under 

 part of head with numerous small .black spots; scales strongly ciliated 

 and each with a brown spot in the center ; dorsals brown ; anal transparent, 

 with a narrow black line; ventral disk yellowish. Length 8 cm. This 

 species is not S. plumieri of Cuvier & Valenciennes, nor is it S. antillarum, 

 Ogilvie-Grant, because of the difference in the number of scales, the dif- 

 ferent proportions and a different coloration. The type was collected by 

 Captain Guiseppe Capurro at St. Pierre, Martinique. (Perugia.) 



Sicydium punctatum, PERUGIA, Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Natural! di Geneva, 



ser. 2, vol. xvi, 1896, 18, Martinique. (Coll. Capt. Gruiseppe Capurro.) 

 Page 2226. Gobius zebra has 26 scales. Many fine specimens of this 

 species, 3 to 4 inches long, from Clarion Island, are in the museum of 

 Stanford University. 



