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The habits and development of the species are discussed by C. M. Breder 

 (Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 435, 1932, p. 22). At something less than half adult 

 length, when the pattern is sharpest, three bands are carried across both body 

 and ventral fins. The sections of the bands on body and fins correspond perfectly, 

 although there is no direct physical continuity between the body and fins, except 

 in the first one. This is another example of the general truth that the pattern is 

 spread upon the bodies of fishes as a whole, without reference to the relations 

 of underlying structures. W. H. L. 



Color plates of a young and an adult are shown by Nichols and Breder (Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 28, no. 1, 1928, pp. 64-77; Zoologica, vol. 8, no. 7, 1928, pp. 423-448). 

 Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, sometimes straying northward. S. F. H. 



Family MACROURIDAE. Rattails 



Bathygadus favosus Goode and Bean 



A single specimen, about 215 mm. (caudal damaged) long, is contained in the 

 Tortugas collection. Although there are no data with the specimen, a 

 "Macrourus" is listed in Dr. Longley's field notes, taken in 200 to 253 fathoms, 

 south of Tortugas, described as having "a large mouth" and being "at least 9 

 inches long," which seems to be the one in hand. 



This imperfect specimen agrees fairly well with 2 paratypes from the Gulf of 

 Mexico, except that the eye in the Tortugas example seems to be larger, agreeing 

 in that respect with Bathygadus vaillanti Roule and Angel (Resul. camp, sci., 

 Poiss., vol. 86, 1933, p. 63, pi. 3, fig. 30). The pectoral fin obviously is longer than 

 is indicated in Goode and Bean's figure (Ocean. Ichthyol., 1895, p. 420, fig. 352) , 

 wherein, however, it agrees with one of the paratypes of B. favosus, which has 

 an apparently unbroken fin. 



The following proportions and enumerations are based on the Tortugas speci- 

 men: Head in total length about 5.0; depth 7.0. Eye in head 3.6; snout damaged,, 

 about 3.6. First D. 11; P. 12; V. 8; gill rakers on lower limb of first arch, 20. 



Deep water off Martinique; now reported for the first time from Florida. 



S.F.H. 



Chalinura occidentalis (Goode and Bean) 



This macrourid is listed as the "common sort" by Dr. Longley, as many as 20 

 on one occasion and 15 on another having been taken in one haul, in 140 to 283 

 fathoms. 



The body is moderately deep and compressed, and differs from most other 

 species of the family in the Tortugas collection in the position of the vent, which 

 is close behind the base of the ventral fins, much nearer to this point than to the 

 origin of the anal. The ventrals are inserted well in advance of the pectorals, and 

 thus somewhat in advance of the opercular margin. Goode and Bean's statement 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8, 1885, p. 597) that the ventrals are inserted under 

 the middle of the first dorsal, which is where the anal begins, was probably a slip- 

 of the pen. 



