TELEOSTEI. 
Pisces 21 
Icelus scutiger and euryops, n. spp., Bean, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, p. 41, 
Alaska. 
Icelinus cavifrons , p. 83, filamcntosus , p. 85, tenuis , p. 86, Jimbriatus , 
p. 87, and oculatus , p. 87, n. spp., Gilbert, £. c. Pacific coast of N. 
America. 
jDasycottus, n. g., allied to Cottunculus. D. setiger f n. sp., Bean, t. c. 
p. 42, Alaska. 
^ Malacottus, n. g., allied to Cottunculus. M. zonurus, id. t. c. p. 43, 
Alaska. 
. Radulinus, n. g. ( Cottiddrum ). Spinous dorsal short, soft dorsal and 
anal very long { branchiostegal membranes broadly united, posteriorly 
free from isthmus ; no slit behind last gill ; broad bands of cardiform 
teeth on jaws, a single series on vomer, none on palatines ; preopercle 
with two short, simple spiries ; ventrals I, 3 ; body very slender ; sides 
armed with a series of large, keeled, spinous plates along lateral line ; 
similar plates on head. R. aspretlus, n. sp., Gilbert, t. c. p. 88, Pacific 
coast of N. America: 
Trigla hemisticld , Schleg.: note oil specimens from the Bay of Bengal ; 
Alcock, Ann. N. II. (6) vi* p. 207. 
Lepidotrigla spiloptera , Gthr:, n. var; longipinnis , id. t. c. p. 429, off 
Gan jam coast. 
Prionotus alepis, n: sp., id. J t A. S. B. lviii, p. 303, pi. xxii, fig. 5, Bay 
of Bengal. 
1 Synckirus, n. g., type of a new subfamily, Synchirince. Yentral fins 
thoracic, but romoto from the gill-opening, and consisting of a rudimont- 
ary spine and several rays ; with {f short and well-developed spinous 
dorsal, which is separated by a deep' notch from the soft portion ; the 
spines slender ; the branchial apertures T^ide and the gill-membrane free 
from the isthmus ; gills 3|, apparently with no slit behind the last ; 
pectoral fins continuous around the breast, the rays supported all round 
by actinosts ; the genital papilla of males capable of being received into 
a pit in front of the anal fin. Bean, P. U. S. Nat. Mus: xii, p. 641, and 
Ann. N. H. (6) vi, p. 119. $. gilli, n. sp., id. t; c. p. 642, Barclay Sound, 
British Columbia. 
Cataphracti. 
Calderwood, W. L: On the Swimming Bladder and Flying Powers 
of Dactylopterus volitans : P. R. $oc. Edinb. xvii, pp. 132-138, pi. 
Dactylopterus, Lacep; : notes on the characteristics of the Dactylopte- 
roidea, and figure of D. volitans , L. ; Gill,- P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, 
p. 243, pi. xix. 
v Bathyagonus, il. g. ( Agonidarum ). Spinous dorsal developed; lower 
jaw the longer ; plates of body spinous ; gill-membranes united to the 
isthmus, not forming a fold across it ; teeth well-developed on jaws, 
vomer, and palatines ; pectorals not notched, the upper rays the longest, 
the lower becoming regularly shortened ; bones of head thin and yielding, 
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