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base, its length 3 in head; knigest aual ray 4 in head; caudal fin 

 hiiiate, with pointed lobes, 1^ in head. 



Color. — Brownish above, grayish below ; head and anterior parts 

 more or less distinctly vermiculated with dark olivaceous, these mark- 

 ings especially distinct on bones ot head; sides with (> to 15 narrow 

 brown oblique bands extending downward and backward from the 

 lateral line about halfway to anal fin, these obsolete or less conspicuous 

 on anterior portion of the body; both dorsals mottled with olive; cau- 

 dal with 3 broad, blac-kisli bars which do not cross the upper and 

 lower ray, the last bar broad and very consi)icuons ; upper ray of caudal 

 dark olive; no black spot at base of caudal; anal and ventrals white; 

 pectorals blackish, faintly barred with darker and margined with white. 



Here described from many specimens, 3 to G inches long, from sta- 

 tion 1'80."), Bay of Panama, 51i fathoms, where it occurs with Frionotns 

 scenisma, but more abundantly than the latter. It has not yet been seen 

 elsewhere. 



Type.—^o. 47580, U.S.X.M. 



Family ITRANOSCOPID.E. 



ASTROSCOPUS ZEPHYREUS, Gilbert and Starks, new species. 

 (Plate LIII, fig. 2; also Plate LIV.) 



Head 2a ; depth 3|; dorsal V-13; anal 14; scales 84; eye 12 in head; 

 maxillary 2^; pectoral 1^; second dorsal spine 7; highest dorsal ray 

 2^; highest anal ray 3^; caudal If. 



Body robust, widest at occiput, vslightly compressed posteriorly, ante- 

 riorly subcylindrical. Head very large and broad, wider than the 

 body; mouth large, vertical, a fringe of barbels curving over mouth on 

 each jaw, their length a little greater than the diameter of the eye; 

 tongue very large and fleshy, forming a pad under the membrane of 

 lower jaw, which projects forward somewhat; teeth conical, small and 

 movable, in many bands in upper jaw: in lower jaw the teeth are larger 

 and in two or three rows; vomer and palatines with teeth. Eyes very 

 small but prominent; interorbital very wide, four times as wide as the 

 eye; bones on top of head coarsely granular; Y-shaped ridge on top of 

 head conspicuous, with a broad naked area on each side; the form of 

 these and other bones of the head exactly as in A. y-f/ra'cvni ; edges 

 of nostrils closely fringed; anterior nostril round, the ridge between it 

 and eye not very high or conspicuous; posterior nostril ending in a 

 long curved furrow which runs obliquely across the naked area be- 

 hind eyes; at its posterior end it turns sharply forward, its length 2| 

 times the diameter of the eye; two very short blunt spines in front of 

 eye; surface of the opercle, preopercle. and humeral process granular, 

 not so rough as in A. ygrcecum ; gill rakers not developed; pseudo- 

 branchiai very small. 



