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556. Gymnelis viridis Fabricius. 

 Marine. 



Arctic regions: ranging from Greenland westward to Bering Sea: extending on the Atlantic 

 side of North America southward to Nova Scotia; and on the Pacific side to Unalaska 

 and Bristol Bay. 



557. Gymnelis stigma Lay and Bennett. 

 Marine. 



Arctic regions; ranging from Greenland to Bering Sea: Northumberland Sound (Richard- 

 son, 1854, as G. viridis variety unimaculatus): Kotzebue Sound (Lay and Bennett, 

 1839, as Ophidium stigma). 



558. Lycocara parrii* Ross. 



Marine. 



Recorded from Baffin's Bay (Ross, 1826, as Ophidium parrii). 



559. Derepodichthys alepidotus Gilbert. 



Bathybial. 

 •Only the type apparently known — from off Queen Charlotte Islands. 



560. Trachypterus rex-salmonorum Jordan and Gilbert. 



King-of-the-Salmon. 



Marine. 



Recorded from Straits of Juan de Fuca, and from off the coast of California. 



561. Lophius piscatorius Linnseus. (Plate XIV, figure 181). 

 Angler: Fishing-frog: Monkfish. 



Marine. 



Both sides of north Atlantic: Maritime Provinces and Gaspe Bay: extending southward 

 on the American side to the Barbado Islands: in the eastern hemisphere ranges from 

 Norway to the Cape of Good Hope: "not rare on any part of the coasts of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and is particularly common in the Solent and in the harbours of Ports- 

 mouth and Southampton" (Yarrell, 1859). 



562. Ceratias holbolli Kroyer. 

 Sea Devil. 

 Bathybial. 



Recorded from Nova Scotia and Greenland. 



*" Very imperfectly known, no specimens having been obtained by any recent collector." Jordan and Evermann. 



