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This species is rare in collections. At Tortugas, in shallow water at least, it is 

 very rare; I have recognized only 4 specimens. The only specimen for which the 

 place of collection is known came from Southwest Key. One was found in waste 

 from the tern rookery. W. H. L. 



Dr. Longley's collection contains 5 specimens, ranging in length from about 

 40 (caudal fin broken) to 72 mm. 



Bahamas, Florida Keys, Puerto Rico, and Atlantic coast of Panama. 



S.F.H. 



Apogon aurolineatus (Mowbray) 



Apogon pigmentarius Metzelaar (not of Poey), Trop. atl. Vissch., 1919, p. 60 — Curasao. 

 Amia aurolincatum Mowbray, in Breder, Bull. Bingham Oceanog. Coll., vol. 1, art. 1, 

 1927, p. 35, fig. 18 — Siguanea Bay, Isle of Pines. 



I have had a single small specimen at Tortugas, found lurking in a crevice in 

 coral at a depth of 10 to 12 feet. 



Poey sent an unnamed specimen of this species to the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology from Havana. Two specimens, from Key West, Florida, are registered 

 in the American Museum of Natural History (no. 2554) as Apogon maculatus. 

 At least the larger of 2 specimens from Curasao, identified by Metzelaar as 

 A. pigmentarius , is in the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam. These and the 

 type (Bingham Oceanog. Coll. no. 461) are all I have discovered in museum 

 collections. 



Median predorsal series of scales, five; two rows between them and lateral 

 line; at least some in the median and submedian series cycloid; caudal peduncle 

 with three rows above and below the lateral line besides a median dorsal and 

 ventral row. In squamation alone, then, there are differences setting this species 

 quite apart from quadrisqiiamatus with its four predorsal scales, from pseudo- 

 maculatus with ctenoid scales only, from maculatus with more scales on the 

 caudal peduncle, and from binotatus and conklini with fewer, as well as from 

 townsendi, if that is separable from binotatus. 



Pectoral fins distinctively short, extending at most a very short distance beyond 

 anal origin; teeth in villiform bands, none projecting sharply beyond the others; 

 eye very small, with half or less than half the superficial area of that of A. quadri- 

 sqiiamatus; serration of preopercular margin sparse and weak; caudal fin very 

 slightly emarginate. The color pattern lacks the sharp, dark markings of 

 maculatus, pseudomaculatus, and binotatus. 



Breder is of the opinion that the ventrals of the type have been lost and the 

 wound healed over. No irregularity in squamation, however, indicates that the 

 fish ever possessed them. W. H. L. 



I did not recognize this species among the specimens of Dr. Longley's collec- 

 tion now in the National Museum. 



Dutch West Indies to southern Florida. S. F. H. 



