FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZOOLOGY, VOL. VII. 



Well Bay. Seine. Sept. 5. 

 Nonsuch Id. Landing. Sept. 6. 

 Long Bay, Somerset. Young. Seine. Sept. 22. 

 Well Bay, Cooper's Id. Eel-pot. Oct. 5. 

 Well Bay. Young. Seine. Sept. 26. 

 Near Red Bay. Young. Seine. Sept. 28. 

 Jones Bay, Cooper's Id. Seine. Sept. 25. 

 Flatts. Oct. 27. 

 Wescott.Bay. Seine. Sept. 25. 

 Old Ferry, St. George's. Sept. 23. 

 Well Bay, Cooper's Id. Seine. Sept. 26. 

 Long Bay, Cooper's Id. Seine. Sept. 25. 

 Packward's Bay. Seine. Sept. 23. 

 Cooper's Id., west side. Green. Oct. 25. 

 Smith's Id., St. George's. 2 spec. Seine. 

 Oct. 17. 



FIGURE 5. IRIDIO DECORATUS Bean. 



174. Iridio decoratus Bean. 



BEAN, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, Feb. 26, 1906, 29. 



5128 No. 545. Nonsuch Id. 2 spec. Oct. 4. 



D. ix, ii ; A. in, 12; scales 2-27-7. Eye equal' to snout, 4 in 

 head; head 3}-* in total to end of scales; depth 4%. The pectoral 

 reaches to eighth row of scales; ventral about one-half head, not 

 reaching nearly to vent. 



Color in spirits: Brownish above middle line, paler below; a 

 short dark stripe on snout in front of eye; a narrow dark line from 

 eye backward to nape; a second irregular line also from eye below 

 this, and a third broken line beginning behind eye and running tow- 

 ard origin of lateral line; a small black dot in upper axil of pec- 

 toral. 



