42 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZOOLOGY, VOL. VII. 



70. Sphyraena borealis De Kay. SENNET. 



5416 No. 546. Nonsuch Bay. Seine. Sept. 29. 



5417 No. 841. Ely's Harbor. Seine. Scales. 120. Sept. 20. 



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71. Sphyraena picudilla Poey. SENNET. 



5418 No. 517. Nonsuch Bay. Seine. Oct. 4. 



72. Sphyraena Sphyraena (L.). 



GOODE, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts, xiv, Oct., 1877, 292, as S. spet. 

 BARBOUR, Bull. M. C. Z., XLVI, No. 7, 1905, 116. 



CXV. Family Holocentridie. 



73. Holocentrus ascensionis (Osbeck). SQUIRREL. 



5067 No. ii. Hungry Bay. Aug. 24. 



5068 'No. 23. 10 miles off Ireland Id. Fish-pot. Aug. 25. 



5069 No. 87. Nonsuch Id. Eel-pot. Sept. 3. 



5070 No. 97. The Flatts. Young. Seine. Sept. 8. 



5071 No. 106. Well Bay, Cooper's Id. Seine. Sept. 3. 



5072 No. 143. Hayward's Bay. 3 young. Seine. Sept. 6. 

 5080 No. 318. Smith's Cove, Hamilton. Young. Sept. 9. 



5073 No. 357. Great Shoal, Castle Harbor. Pot. Sept. 29. 



5074 No. 378. Long Bay, Somerset. Young, Seine. Sept. 22. 



5075 No. 650. Old Ferry, St. George's. Seine. Sept. 23. 



5076 No. 781. Great Bay, St. David's Id. Seine. 6 young. 



Sept. 1 8. 



5077 No. 843. Ely's Harbor. Seine. Young. Sept. 20. 



5078 No. 914. Hungry Bay. Seine. Nov. 7. 



74. Holocentrus meeki Bean. 



BEAN, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, Feb. 26, 1906, 31. 



5079 No. 144. Hayward's Bay, St. David's Id. Seine. Sept. 6. 



A squirrel-fish of the small-scaled group represented by H. ascen- 

 sionis was seined in Hayward's Bay, St. David's Id. Only two 

 young individuals were taken. From H. ascensionis the species can 

 be at once distinguished by its low dorsal and anal rays, its small eye, 

 and its equal caudal lobes, as well as by other characters. 



D. xi, 14 to 15; A. iv, 10; scales 4-54 to 55-7. The head is % 

 of total length to base of middle caudal rays. The maxilla extends 

 to the perpendicular through the front of the eye. The eye is % of 



