and distributed during the month of November 1958«] 
The officers and members of the crew of the U,S»S* HOUSTON, on la^ich 
the cruise was made, also secured a great many fish, some of which are in- 
cluded in this list* 
All specimens brought back to the Museum for its permanent collections 
were identified by Mr. Earl D. Reid and the second author. To Mr, Reid, 
Senior Scientific Aid, Division of Fishes, National Museum, the authors 
which to express their thanks for his generous help and cooperation, and 
they are grateful for assistance rendered by Dr, S, F, Hildebrand and JsJr, 
Isaac Ginsburg, both of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 
The collection proved to be of great value, for it contained nine species 
not represented in the Musexmi’s study collections. Two of these, Pycnomma 
2 
roosevelti and Garmannia gemmata , were described as new by Mr. Ginsburg. 
^Smithson, Misc, Coll., Vol, 98, No, 14, pp. 1-5, 1939, 
