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3* in total length and extend to 5th anal ray. Color of upper parts 

 of body and lower jaw bright chocolate; belly and throat white; 

 darker portions covered with numerous circular spots much lighter 

 than ground color ; membrane of first dorsal black ; second dorsal 

 white with three irregular bands of dull black obliquely across it; 

 the caudal with three parallel bands of blackish brown, the middle 

 of which appears to be the continuation of a variable longitudinal 

 band on the center of each side; the anal has a variable band of 

 dull brown, darker upon the posterior termination. Depth 4 in. 

 length in young and 3i times in adult; D. IV or V — 13 or 14; V. 



6. GUTTATUS. 



5. Upsilonphorus guttatus. 



Astroseopus guttatus Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 365, 1860 

 (Cape May, N. J.) 



Upsilonphorus guttatus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 60, 1879 

 (Tompkinsville, N. Y., and Norfolk, Va., and other localities). 



Astroseopus anoplus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58, 1879 (Tomp- 

 kinsville, N. Y., and Norfolk, Va.) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. North 

 America, 118, 1885 (Young) ; Bean, Bull. U. S. Fish. Com. 130, 131 

 and 136, 1888. (Somers Point, N. J.) 



Upsilonphorus guttatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 113, 1861. 



Habitat. — Atlantic Coast of United States from Long Island to 

 Norfolk, Va. 



Specimens are in the National Museum from Tompkinsville, N. 

 Y., and Norfolk, Va. 



This species reaches the same size as the preceding. The dis- 

 tinctive characters pointed out by Dr. Jordan in Synopsis Fishes N. 

 A. 941 , 1883, hold good for the adult as well as for the young. That 

 the two species are distinct is evident from comparison of spec- 

 imens in the National Museum, which Dr. Jordan made at my 

 request. In the National Museum specimens of the two species 

 equally large in size are preserved. The localities recorded for U. 

 guttatus are all to the north of Cape Hatteras ; those for U y-graecum 

 all to the south. 



Dr. Jordan says : " In U. guttatus the pale spots are much smaller, 

 less sharply defined, and occupy a smaller area than in U. y-graecum; 

 the lower part of the head has two black blotches in both species; 

 the second dorsal, anal, and ventrals are nearly or quite plain. The 

 naked area behind each eye is [in U. guttatus'] lunate, its length 

 barely twice that of the snout; the bony V-shaped plate is short and 

 broad, concave on the median line, and forked for about half its 



