PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 75 couvincetl ns that, altliougli closely related, the two forms are x)erma-nently distinct. "NYliether hereafter to be regarded as a species or as a "subspecies," the form is a peculiar one, aud as such worthy of a uame. Measitre7nenis. Extremp loniitli, in inches Lenatth to base caudal ^100 Body: Greatest depth Least depth Head: Length Diameter of eye Length of snout Length of preocular ridge Length of suijraocular ridge Length of occipital ridge Least ■width of preorliital Width of interiivbital space Length of maxillary Length of longest gill-raker Dorsal : Length of base , Height of tifth spine Height of membrane between fourth and fifth spines. Height of longest soft ray Anal: Length of base Height of second spine Height of third spine .' Height of longest ray Caudal, length of middle rays Pectoral : Length Width of base Ventral, length Dorsal rays Anal rays Xumher of transverse rows of scales Carnatus. (Monterey.) 10. 50 8.90 Kebidosus. (Monterey.) 11.50 9.85 3G. 5 11.5 30. 9. 10. 3.5 c! . c!3 -18. C3. ' 16. 11.2 15. 5 13.7 13. 13.1 17.5 1C.3 26.8 10.5 21. Xin, 14 ni,7 •15 April 2, 1880. CHECK-I.IST OF UITPJ.IC'ATKS OF NORTH A:«ERICA!V FISHES DIWTSJIUITED BV TIBK JX.TIITHSO.MA.'V I,-V.«>iTITl TIO> IIV BEIIAL.F OF TSIK U.VITEB STATES NATIONAL .TlUsiEU.Tl, 1877-lSSO. Prepared B>y TARLETOIV Jl. BEAN. LOPHIID^. 1. Lophius piscatorius Liuu. Lopliius americanus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 101, \A. xviii, fig. 2. 22311. Gloucester, Massachusetts. ANTENNARIID.E. 2. Pterophryne histrio Liuu. Pternphryne Icevigata (Cuv.) Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1873, p. 14. 20662. Wood's Holl, Massachusetts (3). DIODONTID^. 3. Diodon hystrix Liuu. 23779. Bermuda. 4. Chilomycterus geometricus (Liuu.) K.inp. 9448. East coast of United States. 14752. Koank, Connecticut. 19460. Eastern shore of Virginia. 19674. Beaufort, North Carolina. 19719. Fort Macon, North Carolina. 19707. 20074. 21634. 22911. 22912. Eastern shore of Virginia. Coast of New England. Newport, Rhode Lsland. Eastern coast of United States.
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