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8. Siphostoma aflBne (GUnther) Jordan. (839* [^].) 



9. Stromateus alepidotns (L.) Jor. and flilb. (812.) 



The adoption of the earlier name, Stromateus paru L,, for this 

 species is perhaps premature, until West Indian specimens are 

 examined. 



10. Traohynotus carolinas (L.) Gill. (810.) 



11. Lutjanus campechianus Poey. (842* [2].) 



12. Cbaetodipteras faber (Bronssooet) J. and G. (811.) 

 \?>. Batrachus pardus Goode and Bean. (823 [J].) 



One specimen, with the typical coloration of this form. 



\A. Gobiesox yirgatulus Jordan and Gilbert. (838 [3].) 



Three specimens ; the largest rather more than three inches 

 long, thus much larger than the original types. Caudal dusky ; 

 a dusky blotch on front of dorsal, D. 11, A. 8. Eyes very small, 

 barely one-fourth interorbital width. Head 3; its width 2|. 

 Lower teeth moderate, entire ; upper bluntish, in two or three 

 rows, two of the outer a little enlarged. This is probably identical 

 with Gobiesox nudus Giinther, but it cannot be the original 

 Cyclopterus nudus of L. 



15. Scorpaena stearnsi Goode and Bean. (806.) 



16. Achirus brachialis Bean. (843 ) 



A very young example, brown with a few irregular large 

 whitish spots. 



17. Aphoristia plagiusa (L.) Jor. and Gilb. (843.) 

 A very young specimen. 



18. Malthe vespertilio L., var. raiiotn Mitch. (795.) 



A short-nosed individual of the type which has been called 

 Malthe cubifrons Rich, and Lophiiis radiatus Mitchill. 



19. Antennarius ooellatus (Bloch and Schneider) Pcey. (796*; 797; 822 [J].) 



Pescador Parra, Feces de Cuba, PI. 1, 1787. 



Lophius vespertilio, var. d, ocellatus Bloch and Schneider, Ichth., 



1801, 142. 

 Antennarius pleurophthalmus Gill., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 93. 



Color in spirits, brown; pale on the head and belly, darker 

 posteriorly ; anterior region covered with small, sharply defined 

 black spots ; the spots posteriorly larger, and more vague in out^ 

 line, some of them diffuse shades; fins spotted like the body; 

 vertical fins with some paler spots also, and a pale edge; 



