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tion that it is the missing type of affinis, for the original description of that species 

 was published with a query, as Steindachner was uncertain that it was really 

 distinct from A. monophthalmus Giinther, which species it is. 1 



The fin formulas of this specimen are D. III-XXVI,i (or XXIX,i); A. 11,20, 

 just as in all 3 of Giinther's types of A. monophthalmus; a dorsal ray less and an 

 anal ray more than Steindachner indicated. The discrepancy is regrettable, but 

 insufficient to prove that Steindachner's count was not made on this specimen. 

 Web of 3d dorsal spine joining 4th spine at its base; ocular cirri broadly flattened 

 in the transverse plane, with four divisions, increasing in length if counted out- 

 ward from the median border; its length approximately half vertical diameter 

 of eye; nuchal cirri small; dorsal ocellus between 19th and 22d spines of second 

 dorsal. In all these respects, with insignificant differences in detail, the type of 

 Cremnobates affinis is like that of A. monophthalmus. Though the former has 

 lost some of its scales, there seems to be no difference in the original number, 

 which is 38 or 39. 



West Indies; also recorded from the Pacific coast, from Panama to the Gulf of 

 California. W. H. L. 



Auchenopterus grandicornis Rosen 



Auchenopterns grandicornis Rosen, Acta Univ. Lund., Arsskr., vol. 7, 191 1, p. 69, fig. 5 — 

 Andros Island, Bahamas. 



Only the type material in Lund was seen by me. 



A well characterized species, with the great orbital cirrus flat, fringed on its 

 inner border, reaching dorsal origin; nuchal cirrus also flat, with more or less 

 emarginate distal border. In 3 specimens the fin formulas are D. XXVI, 1 ; A. 

 11,17; first 2 dorsal spines rather slighter than the others and closer together, the 

 3d separated from 2d and 4th by a wider interval than appears elsewhere; scales 

 in lateral line about 30. 



Dorsal fin with five crossbands on the higher, two under the lower anterior 

 part; anal uniformly dark; caudal pale. 



Known only from the Bahamas. W. H. L. 



Auchenistius stahli Evermann and Marsh 



Auchenistins stahli Evermann and Marsh, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 25, 1899 (1900), 

 p. 359 — Ponce, Puerto Rico; Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, pt. 1, 1900 (1902), p. 316, 

 fig. 102. 



Stathmonotus tetya Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 28, 1910, p. 161, fig. \c — 

 Key West, Florida. 



Histioclinns veliger Metzelaar, Trop. atl. Vissch., 1919, p. 157, fig. 51 — Bonaire. 



Rather common at Tortugas, where it occurs in the interstices of the densely 

 branched coral Pontes pontes. 

 The elongated maxillaries and membranous expansion of the lips are secondary 



1 Margaret Storey (Copeia, No. 2, 1940, p. 83) has stated that the last dorsal fin support 

 may be developed either as a spine or as an articulate ray. The character, therefore, is of no 

 generic, and probably of no specific, value. — S. F. H. 



