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system and on the vertical and pectoral fins. There are also numerous pale and 

 white spots and dots on the body and fins. 



West Indies to Florida. S. F. H. 



Antennarius annulatus Gill 



Only one specimen, 55 mm. long, from the 11 -fathom channel west of White 

 Shoal, was taken. 



In its stomach when taken was a 30-mm. Coryphopterus glaucojraenum. 



D. III-12V2; A. 6 l / 2 . Dorsal spines well separated; the 1st long and slender, 

 reaching well beyond insertion of 3d, its "bait," possibly injured, seeming 

 basically bifid; lips ciliate; body and fins with few and inconspicuous cirri. 

 Capable of distending itself greatly. 



Ground color apple green, netted indistinctly on back and plainly on belly 

 with citron yellow; spots of ground color largest below dorsal fin and on caudal 

 peduncle, appearing minutely freckled with black under magnification, elongate 

 on cheek, radiating from eye; tending toward the hexagonal on ventral surface; 

 an irregular gray spot before soft dorsal, connected with another rather larger 

 gray nucleus above pectoral; diffuse gray before pectoral; tip of 2d dorsal spine, 

 its web, and tip of 3d gray; a gray spot in dorsal axil extending downward on 

 caudal peduncle; ocelli and near ocelli very many, one below 3d dorsal spine, 

 another slightly farther forward but lower and behind eye, one above upper 

 border of pectoral base, another on side behind lower border of pectoral base, 

 the greatest of all partly on soft dorsal and partly on back, beneath bases of rays 

 8 to 10, three large and dark ones on basal half of caudal, about eight fainter 

 ones more distally placed, chiefly in a subterminal series, another large one on 

 base of anal between 3d and 6th rays, more in series near its margin, and still 

 others on upper side of pectoral. W. H. L. 



The specimen described by Dr. Longley was doubtfully identified by him as 

 this species. I have read the original description of Antennarius annulatus with 

 the specimen in hand. I find no disagreement, except for the color on the caudal 

 peduncle. The specimen, instead of having a broad pink ring encircling base of 

 caudal as in the specimen described by Gill, has a pink blotch on dorsal surface 

 of caudal peduncle, with only slight downward projections just behind base of 

 dorsal. 



Though the original description mentioned no exceptions, some, but not all, 

 of the spines covering the skin are bifid. 



This species has rested in the synonymy of A. multiocellatus for some time. 

 Dr. Longley examined the type of that species, however, in the Musee d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris, and identified another specimen in his collection with it. The 

 specimen identified as A. multiocellatus differs strongly in color from the one 

 here identified as A. annulatus, as is brought out in the descriptions herewith. 

 It is true that several prominent ocelli are similarly situated in the two, but 

 A. multiocellatus is much more profusely spotted than A. annulatus, and lacks 

 the pink (gray in life) spots conspicuous in the latter. The former also has the 



