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otter trawl in shallow water, some of the hauls being listed as "weedy" ones. 



Color of fresh specimens from turtle grass gray, the lighter ones marbled with 

 dark shades; body profusely speckled with fine white dots, least numerous on 

 trunk, and in many radiating series around eye. 



In the stomach of a remora, Echeneis nancrates, 73.5 cm. long were 20 sea 

 horses which are much spinier than H. punctulatus , probably stylijer (see syn- 

 onymy above). Specimens very dark brown, barred with white on tail, slightly 

 and irregularly mottled with white elsewhere; skin near eye with radiating light 

 lines; narrow radiating light lines on iris. D. 19, on about 2 + 2 rings. 



Concerning another lot Dr. Longley noted that the specimens were very 

 "weedy," and the dermal processes very long and repeatedly branched; that the 

 shade was variable, the white outlined in white, and the blotches much sub- 

 divided; bars across iris as wide as pupil; 3 specimens each with D. 19. 



Among 3 specimens taken in the southwest channel on August 1, 1931 was a 

 male, 145 mm. long from coronet to tip of tail, with eggs. Ground color dark 

 brick red, with a few irregular white marks on head, including radiating white 

 lines of white dots about the eye, and a few white punctulations on posterior half 

 of body and tail. Dorsal with a yellow margin and a black submarginal band as 

 wide as pupil. No cirri except a few small ones under snout. D. 20, on 2 + 2 

 rings; P. 17; rings 11 + 37. 



These and other data in Dr. Longley's notes show that much variation in color, 

 height of spines, and development of cirri exists among individuals. 



According to Ginsburg (see citation above), this sea horse is of southern dis- 

 tribution, ranging at least from Florida to Cuba. S. F. H. 



Family AULOSTOMIDAE. Trumpet Fishes 



Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes 



(Plate 1, figures 1,2) 



Two large specimens were found among gorgonians, beside the vertical 

 branches of which they commonly rested head downward. In one of these a 

 banded pattern replaced the more usual one of stripes or self color. Bands, how- 

 ever, were not shown by the other. The general shade is variable, being notice- 

 ably lighter over bare bottom than elsewhere. 



A specimen of 125 mm., taken in turtle grass, was olivaceous in coloration 

 dorsally and ventrally, distinctly countershaded. It had three main dark stripes, 

 dorsal, lateral, and ventral, running from snout to caudal, separated by very 

 narrow light lines. The body was crossed by many faint vertical light lines, pro- 

 ducing a pattern of about ten broad dark bars before the eye, fifteen between eye 

 and dorsal fin, and ten from origin of dorsal to caudal. The dorsal and anal fins 

 each had one dark line parallel to the base, and the caudal fin was dusky with 

 clear angles. W. H. L. 



A preserved specimen, about 330 mm. long, has the color essentially as in the 

 specimen described by Dr. Longley. It also has rather distinct round black spots 



