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Young specimens are gray and olive above, mucli mottled witli black- 

 ish ; back with numerous irregular blue spots ; iris coppery, the pupil 

 green ; belly white, grayish-brown along the sides ; twelve round black- 

 ish spots along the boundary between sides and belly; a whitish bar 

 at base of caudal; caudal with two bars of blackish olive and one of 

 white ; other fins plain ; back and sides with whitish cirri. 



These young specimens have the back and belly covered with rather 

 large, not close set, stellate prickles as described in the original 

 account of Tetrodon nephehis. Of the larger specimens some have 

 prickles only on the back, others on the belly only; one or two only on 

 a small area behind the eyes near the median line, while the majoritj^ 

 of the largest are entirely smooth. There is no doubt that these speci- 

 mens all belong to one species, and that this is the original Tetrodon 

 neplielus of Goode & Bean. The loss of the prickles is probably to some 

 extent dependent on age. 



Species new to the united states coast. 



The following species contained in the present memoir had not been 



recorded from the coast of the United States at the time the collection 



was made. Those which were then new to science are printed in 



italics : 



Carcharias lamia Eisso. 



Narcine umhrosa Jordan. 



Stolephorus perfasciatus Poey. 



Stolephorus miarchus Jor. & Gilb. 



Diissumieria stoli/era Jor. & Gilb. 



Clupea sardina Poey. 



Synodus spixianus Poey. 



Cyprinodon riverendi (Poey). 



Tylosurus sagitta Jor. & Gilb. 



Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Eanzani. 



Siphostoma mackayi Swain & Meek. 



Siphostoma miurum Swain «& Meek. 



Siphostoma crinigerum Bean & Dresel. 



Mugil trichodon Poej'. 



Querimana gyrans Jor. & Gilb. 



Atherina arcea Jor. & Gilb. 



Acanthocybium solandri Cuv. & Val. 



Seriola dumerili Kisso. 



Epiuephelus guttatus L. 



Lutjanus analis (Cuv. & Val.). 



Lutjanus jocu (Bl. &. Schn.). 



Lutjanus caxis (Bl. & Schn.). 



Hsemulon sciurus (Shaw). 



Hsemulon flavoliueatum Desmarest. 



Hiemulon treniatum Poey. 



Calamus calamus (Cuv. & Val.). 



