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39. Siphostoma mackayi Swain & Meek, 



Numerous specimens takeu with the seine in eel-grass. Types of tlio 

 species are numbered 34980, from Key West. 



40. Siphostoma rniurum Swain & Meek. 



One specimen obtained, the type of the species. 



41. Siphostoma crinigerum Bean & Dresel. 

 Numerous specimens. 



42. Siphostoma zatropis Jor. & Gilb. 



Several large specimens taken in eel-grass. 



43. Hippocampus punctnlatus Gniclienot. Sea Horse. 



A single dried specimen, in poor condition, obtained from a fisher- 

 man. 



44. Hippocampus hudsonius DeKay. 



Two specimens, one nearly adult, one very small, taken with the 

 seine in Fucus. 



The large specimen evidently belongs to the species described by 

 Jordan «& Gilbert (Syn. Fish. N. A., 907) as Hippocampus hudsotiius. 



Color dusky, without distinct spots, but with irregular, sharply-de- 

 fined grayish lichenoid blotches on head, body, and tail, not quite sym- 

 metrical on the two sides, but nearly so, those on the tail forming irreg- 

 ular pale bands. Head freckled with grayish. 



Eye withtradiating whitish streaks ; snout with a narrow, whitish 

 cross-band, a whitish longitudinal band behind eye. Dorsal mottled. 

 Snout, Ij^ in rest of head. Spines comparatively blunt, but some of 

 them large, the four on median line of belly especially so. D. 19, cov- 

 ering 3^ rings; 11 body rings. Opercle with radiating stritie. 



It is not very certain that DeKay's specimen belonged to this species. 

 His description fits this better than it does any other of the four which 

 are definitely known from our Atlantic coast {punctulatus, hudsonius 

 stylifer, zosteric). The species described by Professor Goode (Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 45), from Saint George's Bank, as Hippocampus an- 

 tiquoruni, is apparently more like the present species than like the 

 European H. Idppocampus {antiquorum, heptagonus). The latter species 

 should probably be omitted from the list of American fishes. 



MUGILIDiE. 



45. Mugil albula L. CalUfaror Mullet. 



Common in the fall. Only salted specimens seen. I do not know 

 the origin or the proper orthography of the name " Callifavor^^ applied 

 to this species by the fishermen. 



46. Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz. Blue-hack Mullet. 



Rather common in the ^Ainter in schools, in bays where the water is 

 somewhat deep. The most valued as food of the species of mullet at 

 Key West. 



