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Head about 3, depth 4 in length to caudal. Pectoral reaches to vertical 

 through anal origin ; ventral i head, reaching scarcely more than half way 

 to vent; eye equals snout; 4| in head. 



In spirits : Pale yellow, sides with four or five faint, irregular, dull gray 

 cross bands; head profusely sprinkled with minute dark points; pectoral 

 with six or seven narrow, interrupted bands formed by dots on the rays ; 

 caudal with six similar bands; no dark spot on front of spinous dorsal and 

 none on opercle ; soft dorsal and pale mottled with darker but without 

 evident bands. 



Antennarius verrucosus. 



Type specimen, 3| inches long without caudal. Collector's number 928 ; 

 Museum catalogue number 4853 ; was taken in the Reach, St. George's Id., 

 in 1904. 



D. 111,12; A. 7; V. 6; P. 10. 



First dorsal spine extends to base of third spine ;, " bait" absent ; second 

 spine free ; third spine recumbent, adnate to skin of back. Second spine 

 3 in upper jaw ; third spine twice as long as second. Body and fins every 

 where rough with small prickles ; many roundish raised clusters of spinules 

 forming elevations on sides, back and belly in front of ventrals. 



Upper jaw equals distance from pectoral to vent ; eye 6 in upper jaw, 4 

 in interorbital space. 



Color in spirits, pale yellowish ; inside of mouth whitish ; brownish dots 

 and lines on head and body ; four small, roundish, ocellated dark spots on 

 soft dorsal ; a diffuse dusky blotch on soft dorsal rays extending down on 

 back enclosing a darker nucleus of irregular shape ; caudal of left side with 

 ten small irregular dark spots and a few smaller ones ; an ocellated, oblong, 

 dark spot on anal and several much smaller spots ; about eight small dark 

 spots at bases of pectoral rays ; a dusky patch under each pectoral as long 

 as upper jaw, its width one-third of its length ; a smaller, diffuse blotch in 

 front of vent. 



Holocentrus meeki. 



A small-scaled Holocenlrus differing from ascensionis in its short dorsal 

 and anal rays, small eye, equal caudal lobes and other characters. Types, 

 collector's number 144, Museum catalogue number 5079, are 2| inches and 

 3 inches long respectively, without caudal. 



D. XI, 14 to 15 ; A. IV, 10 ; scales 4-54 to 55-7. 



Head, 3i in total without caudal ; depth, 4 ; eye, 3 in head ; maxilla to 

 vertical through front of eye ; pectoral, | head, reach ing sixteenth series of 

 scales ; ventral, 3 head, ending far from vent ; anal base, 2 in head, equal 

 to longest dorsal spine, and to longest soft ray ; third anal spine 3 in head, 

 longer and stouter than fourth. 



In spirits, pale brown above lateral line, shining silvery below ; all of 

 head but top silvery ; caudal peduncle purplish ; membrane of spinous 

 dorsal blackish ; iris pale. 



Named for Dr. Seth E. Meek, Assistant Curator of Zoology, Field Museum 

 of Natural History. 



