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vertical bands, which extend a little on the lower surface of the body, 

 and leave broad spaces between. Two small blackish spots on the 

 lower edge of the caudal peduncle. Caudal with a blackish blotch at 

 the base of each lobe. Median portion of each caudal lobe blackish. 

 Pectoral with a longitudinal median blackish streak, becoming diffuse 

 on the outer portion. Membranes of the ventral black, except the 

 outer portion, which is pale straw-color, like most of the rays. 



Length 4f inches. 



One example taken from below a Portuguese man-of-war {Physalia) 

 in Biscayne Bay. 



SERRANID^. 



3. Diplectrum formosum (Linnoius . 



1766. fPerca] formosa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, p. 488; Carolina 

 (Coll. D. Garden). 



Color in alcohol pale brown above, the lower surface silvery-white. 

 Back and upper side with eight broad transverse deep browm bands, 

 with alternating deep brown narrow bands between. A deep brown 

 band from the tip of the snout to the base of the upper caudal lobe. 

 Above this two similar narrow dusky-brown bars. Where all these 

 bars cross dark areas are formed. The side of the head and trunk 

 are also marked with narrow pale slaty longitudinal lines, each one 

 with a little darker margin. Dorsals and caudal with dilute yellowish- 

 brown, the former marked on the spinous portion with two broad pale 

 slaty longitudinal bands which run back on the soft fin higher and 

 lower, the intervening space marked with another similar parallel 

 band. All of these bands are darker along their edges, and run liigher 

 on the posterior soft dorsal, where a fourth runs backward from the 

 base of the sixth ray. Caudal with six more or less connected lines 

 or bands, especially above, so that the fin has a spotted appearance. 

 Anal pale yellowish-white, with many dilute slaty linos. Pectoral and 

 ventral whitish. A dusky spot on the chin. Interorbital space with 

 two narrow connecting lines, also one between the nostrils. 



Length 8 inches. 



One example from lower Biscayne Bay. 



LUTIANID^. 



4. Neomaenis apodus (Forster). 



1792. Perca apoda Forster, in Walbaum, Pet. Arted. Gen. Pise, III, p. 351 

 (Based on Perca marina pitinis, etc., Catesby, Nat. Hist. Car. Flor. Bah. 

 11, 1731, p. 4, PI. 4, lower figure; no locality.)^ 



Color in alcohol more or less faded dull uniform olive, pale below. 

 ^ Credited by Pennant (Arctic Zoology, II, 1792, p. 385) to the Bahama isles. 



