32 Bean Descriptions of New Bermudian Fishes. 



Cryptotomus crassiceps. 



Two specimens, 3f inches and 4| inches long to end of scales, collector's 

 number 417, Museum catalogue number 4964 ; Cooper's Id., September 

 26, 1905. 



D. IX, 10 to 11 ; A. II to III, 9 ; scales, 1^-25-6. 



No posterior canine tooth; in the smaller example about 12 teeth in 

 front of upper jaw developed as canines, the two outer of which are hooked 

 and recurved ; side teeth coalesced into a cutting edge ; in the larger ex 

 amples there are fewer anterior canines and two of them project straight 

 forward. 



Scales on breast and belly notably enlarged ; last scale of lateral line 

 enlarged and produced backward into a point. Width of head its length ; 

 snout pointed, subconical, 7 in total to end of scales ; eye 2 in snout ; mouth 

 small, horizontal, its angle not reaching to front of eye; upper lip double, 

 closely concealing the jaw. Three scales on median line in front of ven 

 tral ; four across median* line in front of dorsal. 



Depth 3| in total to end of scales ; snout 3 in head. Pectoral more than 

 J head, reaching eighth scale of lateral line ; ventral equal to snout, not 

 nearly reaching to vent; caudal short, sub-truncate, about 3 in head. 



In spirits, grayish brown above, pale below ; all fins pale except caudal 

 which shows about 6 narrow, dusky cross bars in the smaller example ; a 

 black blotch at upper axil of pectoral and above it a faint blue line ; 

 isthmus dusky ; two narrow blue lines from eye to angle of mouth ; iris 

 pale yellow, blackish at top, crossed obliquely by a blue line ; dusky color 

 on sides forming broken lines on 3 or 4 rows of scales below lateral line. 



Eupomacentrus chrysus. 



Type specimen If inches long to end of scales, collector's number 525, 

 Museum catalogue number 5025, from White's Flat Channel, October 6, 

 1905. This is almost uniform yellow, the only dark portions being the eye, 

 a diffuse spot on the base of the spinous and soft dorsal covering five rows 

 of scales, extending to lateral line, a dark saddle on top of caudal peduncle, 

 a minute dark point on upper axil of pectoral, a faint dusky area on snout 

 and nape, and about 21 very faint, narrow, dusky lines on sides, some ex 

 tending above lateral line but none reaching far below edge of pectoral. 



D. XII, 16 ; A. II, 15 ; scales, 3-28-11, pores on 18 scales. 



Depth 2 in total to end of scales; head, 3} ; eye, 2 in head ; interorbital 

 space, 3 in head. Dorsal spines regularly graduated, the last about f head. 

 Pectoral reaches to twelfth row of scales ; ventral filamentous at tip and 

 reaching anal origin. 



Hippocampus brunneus. 



Type, collector's number 1099, Museum catalogue number 5494, an adult 

 male, taken at Long Bird Id., August 29, 1904. 



D. 18, on 3-fl rings ; rings 11+35. 



Eye, 2J in snout, 6 in head; head equal to body; depth about | head. 

 Dorsal base equal to snout ; longest dorsal ray 2 in snout. 



