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short. Maxillary smooth ; cheeks and operculum scaly, the cheek minutely. 

 Scales ceasing on vertex at a point behind a vertical drawn from the posterior 

 margin of the pupil. Interorbital width -70 of the diameter of the orbit. 

 Latter a little less than length of muzzle, four times in length of head to base 

 of longest spine. Depth at ventral fins 2-75 times in length without caudal 

 fin. Length of head (without opercular flap) 2-66 times in same. 



The coloration is handsome. Ground chocolate brown, the cheeks interoper- 

 culum, mandible and maxillary region with a coarse net-work of "white lines. 

 Pectoral region paler, and fading on the belly to a white and then metallic 

 citron yellow, which is bounded abruptly by the ground color behind, at a 

 point a little in advance of the anal fin. The posterior outline rises irregu- 

 larly halfway to the lateral line and then turns forward and descends a short 

 distance behind the pectoral fin. From this patch backwards to the b;t<is of 

 the caudal fin there are five vertical cross-bands, two on the peduncle and two 

 rising from the anal fin. The latter diverge above and another band rises, 

 expanding to the point of junction of the dorsal fins, and spreads in a rounded 

 black spot to their margin. The pectoral and caudal fins are white, with 

 rows of small brown spots, the second dorsal and anal brown with rows of 

 small white spots. 



Length 0m 075 ; to basis DI. -02G, to basis of anal -044; longest dorsal 

 spine -010 ; depth caudal peduncle -0095 ; length do. above -0055. 



The habitat of this sea perch is the southern coast near Pensacola. It was 

 contained in a bottle with Abastor erythrogrammus, Elaps fulvius, etc. Its 

 zoological affinities are to the C. phoebe of Poey, and other West Indian 

 species ; it is one of the most elegant of the genus. 



Gobiesox strumosus Cope, sp. nov. 



Radii, D. XI ; C. 16; A. 10 ; P. 21. Head exceedingly wide, width 2 5-6ths 

 times in total including caudal fin. This width is partly produced by a large 

 fleshy mass which extends from the end of the prominent extremity of the 

 maxillary bone to the end of the inter operculum. Subopercular spine short, 

 stout. Eyes small, diameter 2-5 times ia interorbital width, over seven times 

 in head, more than twice in muzzle. Superior dental series twelve on each 

 side externally, but the three median conceal some series of which the second 

 three external 'are a continuation. Inferior teeth eleven on each side; four 

 median incisors, horizontal and subequal ; no marked canine. Vertex flat, 

 profile descending abruptly from posterior line of the orbits to labial margin. 

 Anterior basis of dorsal in front of last fourth of length exclusive of caudal 



length two and a half inches. Color in spirits bluish lead-color ; fins 



From 'Hilton Head, S. Carolina. Presented to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences by Thos. J. Craven. 



Note on Fishes from Atlantic City, N, J. 

 A small and interesting collection of fishes, made at the above locality was 

 placed in my hands for determination by Edward S Keed. He has added two 

 species to the marine fauna of New Jersey, which I here note : 



Priacanthus altus Gill, supra. 



Hemirhamphos maororhtnchus C. V. Putnam, Proceed. Bost. Soc. X. H , 

 1870, p. 236. 

 This West Indian species was not known from the Eastern coast of the 

 UnHed States prior to Hie notice of Prof. Putnam, above cited, who procured 

 it from the coast of Massachusetts. 



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