1895.] Zoology. 281 
New Deep Sea Fishes.—A preliminary account of new types of 
deep water fishes from the northwestern Atlantic is given (Proceeds. 
U. S. Natl. Museum, Vol. XVII, 1894) by Dr. G. Brown Goode and 
Tarleton H. Bean. Two new families, Cetonimidae and Rondeletiidae, 
represented by C. storeri, C. gillii and R. bicolor. The second family 
is distinguished from the first by the presence of ventral fins, and the 
incompleteness of the opercular apparatus. Both are Malacopterygian 
fishes, belonging to the group set aside by Gill under the name Iniomi. 
Only a single specimen of each species was obtained from depths rang- 
ing from 1,043 to 1,641 fathoms. 
Another remarkable type belongs to the Chimaeroid group, from the 
existing forms of which it differs in the extremely elongate, muzzle, 
and the feeble claspers. Four specimens were obtained, two of them 
young, and with proportions shorter than those of the adults. The 
habitat of this genus is given as off the coasts of Virginia, Maryland and 
Delaware, 707 to 1,080 fathoms. It is described under the name 
Harriotta raleig hana. 
All the types are figured, and in the next number of the Natural- 
ist, we will reproduce them. 
Preliminary Notes on the Osteology of the North Ameri- 
can Crotalidae.—I desire to present a preliminary paper giving some 
characters of the osteology of the Crotalidae. I have to thank Dr. O. 
P. Hay and Mr. M.S. Farr, Fellows in the University of Chicago, for 
furnishing me specimens for this work. Also, I am under obligations 
to Dr. George Baur, Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago for 
special favors and suggestions. 
I am able to give both specific and generic characters of the genus 
Ancistrodon. The species A. contortrix was obtaind near Johnstown, 
Pa., while A. piscivorus was secured at Enterprise, Miss. Of the genus 
Sistrurus I have examined two species, namely, S, miliarus from Florida 
and S. catenatus from Indiana. Also I have examined two species of 
Crotalus, namely, C. Aorridus from Tuscarora Mountain, Pa., and also 
one specimen from near Johnstown, Pa., and C. confluentus collected 
in Kansas.! In addition, we have examined one individual each of C. 
horridus and of S. catenatus now in the Museum of Monmouth College. 
The locality of these specimens is not known. 
= LI have also examined a skeleton in the collection of the Field Colum- 
bian Museum, and labelled “Crotalus durissus Texas.” The identification of this 
specimen is not at all certain, but it seems to be C. adamanteus atrox or C. mo- 
lossus. ; 
