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

 through anal origin ; ventral \ 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 Reac^li, >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 Holocentrus differing from ascensionis in its short doreal 

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

 collector's number 144, Museum catalogue number 5079, are 24 inches and 

 3 inches long respectively, without caudal. 



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



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

 vertical through front of eye ; i:)ectoral, | head, reaching sixteenth series of 

 scales ; ventral, | 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. 



