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below this; fins all dull grayish; ventrals and anal somewhat blackishj 

 edge of opeicle slightly darker. 



MULLIDiE. 



111. Upeneus balteatus Cuv. & Val. Goat-fish. 



( Upeneus flavovittattts Poey.) 



A single, nearly adult, specimen taken in the seine. It agrees fully 

 with others from Havana. 



Color in life flesh -color above, sides silvery, tinged with yellowish 

 below (entire body becoming crimson on immersion in spirits) ; edges 

 of scales of back light olive-green; top of head quite rosy; a bright 

 yellow band from eye to base of caudal, about as wide as pupil and a 

 little above axis of body ; a whitish streak above and below this ; an- 

 other above lateral line; a yellow stripe along snout; yellow shades 

 below eye; barbels flesh-color ; both dorsals and caudal bright yellow; 

 ventrals and anal pale yellow ; pectoral flesh-color ; anterior and pos- 

 terior edges of opercle edged with yellow ; iris red. 



This species belongs to the subgenus Mulloides, having the teeth 

 bluntish, strong, in several series. 



112. Upenens maculatns (Blocli.) Goat-fish. 



Numerous young specimens taken with the seine in the surf. 



Color, olive above, pearly below, the sides faintly yellowish and 

 everywhere more or less flushed with pale red (body becoming crimson 

 on immersion in spirits) ; the red shades generally more distinct after 

 death ; scales above considerably tinged with red, their edges green- 

 ish; some three to five obscure dark blotches on sides along lateral line; 

 one under each dorsal fin more distinct than the rest and about as large 

 as eye ; a bright greenish spot on each scale of the row above lateral 

 line on the middle of back, these forming a short series ; three nar- 

 row stripes of light greenish from eye forward and two backward, the 

 lower i^assing under the eye and merging into the lower anterior stripe; 

 snout reddish; barbels orange, yellow at tip; dorsal mottled with or- 

 ange-brown, its tip yellowish; soft dorsal pale-yellowish, with two black 

 blotches; caudal pale at base, then yellowish, the tips of the lobes pale 

 orange; anal pale reddish; ventrals light reddish, mesially blackish. 



SCIiENIDJE!, 



113. Menticirrus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider). 



{Menticirrus nebulosus (Mitchill).) 



Numerous young specimens taken with a seine in the surf. These 



are evidently identical with a tish taken at Pensacola in 1881 by Jordan 



& Stearns, and referred to Menticirrus nebulosus. These are darker in 



color than speciniens from the North, but in other respects I am unable 



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