Jordmi and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2393 



timious, Avitli slender rays, the last oue joined to the caudal. First two 

 rays of anal short, thick, and fleshy in the males. Male deep olive, with 

 dark cross .shades; nmnerous pale spots on the sides which form undu- 

 lating lines converging backwards; dark stripes downward and forward 

 from eye; top of head and ujiper part of dorsal iin usually with line black 

 spots; spinous dorsal with a median orange longitudinal band; other fins 

 mostly dusky olive. Some specimens with the outer part of both dorsals 

 and the top of liead dusted with black spots, others with these spots 

 obsolete; soft dorsal and caudal light orange, barred with light green- 

 ish ; anal dull orange, with an obscure blackish median band, the exserted 

 tips of the rays abruptly whiti.sh; pectorals dusky olive, strongly tinged 

 with orange; ventrals blackish, orange at tip. Female with about 8 

 blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal flu ; the body everywhere 

 with pale .spots; fins all sharply barred with blackish and olive. Pensa- 

 cola Bay, Florida ; common about the wharves and ballast rocks in shallow 

 water; taken with seines and pinhooks. Allied to Chasmodes hosqitianus, 

 but with the mouth smaller, the form less elongate, (saburra, balhist.) 



Chasmodes saburrce, Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 298, Pensacola, 

 Florida (Type, No. 30824. Coll. Jordan & Stearn.s) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 958, 

 1883. 



2744. CHASMODES INOYEMLINEATUS (Wood). 



Head 3|; depth 3f ; eye 4|; snout 3f; maxillary reaching posterior 

 border of eye. D. XI, 18; A, III, 17. Head and shoulders heavy, the 

 body lance-shaped, tapering gradually to tail; snout short, blunt, profile 

 nearly vertical to eye, thence gently rounded; mouth rather large, some- 

 what obli(iue, the maxillary reaching posterior border of eye; dorsal and 

 anal high, longest dorsal rays 2 in head ; anal considerably lower ; pectoral 

 nearly as long as head; ventrals 1| in head. Color, side with 6 broad, 

 dark, vertical bars, the anterior 4 extending on the dorsal fin, these bars 

 separated by irregular narrow pale spaces; entire side profusely covered 

 with small white spots; a .small black spot at base of caudal; head mot- 

 tled with light and dark; 2 small (hirk spots on under side of lower jaw; 

 just behind these and extending downward from the angles of the mouth 

 are 2 other larger, blacker spots, while behind these, extending down- 

 ward ;ind backward from middle of cheek, is an irregular black line; 

 whole head with numerous fine dark punctulations; dorsal and anal vari- 

 ously spotted or barred with liglit and dark; spinous dorsal with a. large 

 dark area at top of anterior spines; caudal faintly barred; pectorals and 

 ventrals more plainly barred. Length 2 inches. South Atlantic coast of 

 the United States, South Carolina to Florida; abundant in Indian Kiver, 

 Florida, where numerous specimens were taken in January, 1896, by Ever- 

 uKinn & Bean, (worem, nine; Uneat us, lined.) 



Pholis novemUneatus, Wood,* Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1825, 280, Charleston Harbor, 

 South Carolina. 



*Tbe following is the substance of Wood's original description of this species: "Body 

 with 9 whitisli longitudinal bands ; dorsal fin with an irregular blackish spot between the 

 tirst and second rays; remainder of the tin clouded with dusky brown. Head de.scending 

 somewhat abruptly, tuberculated anteriorly ; nostrils with a sruall appendage ; head, lips, 



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