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tively, 80.3, 113, 83, and 58 mm. Greatest depth of body 293, 327, 

 283, and 285; length of head 380, 354, 368, and 371; snout 80, 103, 

 88, and 86; fleshy mterorbital space 62, 62, 60, and 60; diameter of eye 

 108, 88, 96, and 117; postorbital length of head 194, 173, 193, and 190; 

 least width of preorbital 19, 20, 18, and 22; length of maxillaries 166, 

 173, 181, and 178; least depth of caudal peduncle 139, 149, 139, and 

 138; distance from base of last anal ray to midbase of caudal fin 217, 

 251, 245, and 219; length of longest (third) dorsal spine — , — , 133, 

 and 143; of longest soft dorsal ray (third from last) 212, 208, — , and 

 172; longest anal spine (third) 106, 90, 108, and 98; longest soft anal 

 ray (third from last) 162, 159, 175, and 150; longest pectoral ray 280, 



Figure 1.- — Pikea cubensis, new species, from Cuba. 



268, 286, and 281; longest pelvic ray 164, 142, 163, and 173; longest 

 caudal fin ray — , 274, — , and — . 



Color in alcohol: Plain straw-colored except tips of outer caudal 

 fin rays are blackish. 



Remarks: This new species is distinguished as indicated in the 

 key on page 327. It differs from P. mexicanus in the number of soft 

 dorsal fin rays. 



Pikea mexicanus mexicanus, new species and subspecies 



Figure 2 



Liopropoma aherrans (non Poey) Longley and Hildebrand, Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington Publ. No. 535, Papers Tortugas Lab., vol. 34, p. 101, 1941 (USNM 

 117191 from Tortugas). 



Holotype: USNM 158246, collected Nov. 25, 1950, by the Oregon 

 in Gulf of Mexico, southeast of Corpus Christi, Tex., lat. 27°22' N; 

 long. 96°08' W., 103 fathoms, standard length 101 mm. 



Paratypes: USNM 117191, collected by Dr. W. H. Longley at 

 Tortugas, Fla., 6 specimens, 46 to 95 mm. USNM 155240, collected 

 July 12, 1952, by the Oregon in Gulf of Mexico, southwest of Cape 



