3196 
Bulletin / 7 , Uiiited States National Museum. 
pointed behind, but in several specimens has lost a shorter or longer jiart ; 
but the wound has healed, and on the thus truncated iioint of the tail is 
developed a distinct caudal fin, a phenomenon which is also observed in 
some specimens of the preceding species. The scales show distinct rows 
of thorns, not however so much projecting as in M. goodel. (Liitken.) 
Several specimens taken by the Ingolf about Iceland and in Denmark 
Strait. 
Macrunisingolfi, Lutkex, Ichtb. Results D.'inisb Jn^of/Expeil. , 27, 1898, south of Iceland. 
Page 2622. After Hippoglossina hollmani, Gilbert, insert the following: 
2988 (. 1 ). HIPl’OdLOSSIXA SABAXEXSIS, Roulenger. 
Head 4; depth 1|; eye 5; width of mouth 2| in head; maxillary reach- 
ing iiosterior third of eye ; teeth small, more strongly developed on right 
side ; eyes moderately large, the lower a little in advance of the upper ; 
interorbital sjiace tectiform, scarcely half the width of eye. D. 76; A. 63. 
Gill-rakers very short, tuberculous, 6 on lower arm of first gill-arch; 
dorsal commencing above anterior third of upper eye, its longest ray 2 in 
head; left pectoral a little longer than right, 1| in head; left ventral 
twice as long as right, er^ualing the head ; caudal a little shorter than head, 
its free edge forming a wide angle, the middle rays more than half longer 
than the outer ; depth of caudal iieduncle twice it length ; scales 33-110-40, 
strongly ciliate on both sides; lateral line strongly arched above the pec- 
toral. Deep gray brown; 3 large black ocelli bordered with bluish, 2 
superposed on middle of body, equally distant, between lateral line and 
vertical fin, the third on lateral line a little in front of caudal peduncle; 
pectoral yellowish, ventrals blackish. Length 230 mm. One specimen 
from Rio Sabana, Darien. (Boulenger.) (sabanenaia, from the Rio Sabana.) 
Jlippoglossina faba7iensit,-BovLEt;GER, Bollettiuo dei Mus. di Zool. ed. Auat. Comp, della 
Uuiv. di Torino, Vol. xiv, No. 346, 4, April29, 1899, Rio Sabana, Darien. (Coll. Dr. 
Enrico Feata.) 
Page 2789. Vilhn'iita, lluttev=lIauator, .Iordan A Evermaun. All spe- 
cies of Ameiurua have villi. 
Page 118. Dr. Albert Gilnther has recently critically studied the Lin- 
nsean type specimens of American fishes in the possession of the Linna^an 
Society of London, and the results are published in the proceedings of that 
society for May 24, 1899. 
These studies of Dr. Gunther necessitate the following changes from 
the names adopted bj' us in the earlier parts of this work; The Gafi- Top- 
sail Catfish becomes 
Itil. FELKIITIIYS FKLIS (Linn.tua). 
The si)ccies called by us Ilexanematichthga felia (Liumeus) (p. 128) 
becomes 
iMi. (iAI.EirilTH YS .MII.ItKKTI (Cuvier &. Valenciennes). 
The Red Hind, given by us as Epinephelua maculoana (p. 1158), becomes 
