PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 4G5 



Color: The gTOUud-color is light umber; abdomen grayish brown: 

 lower parts of head cream. A band of cream on the anal extends from 

 the origin of the rays to abont their middle. A crescentic band of the 

 same color, mottled with nmber, crosses the nape, and continues behind 

 the pectorals, blending there with the first lateral band. A streak of 

 cream, more or less interrupted b}^ umber, extends backwards from the 

 eye across the cheek, almost to the end of the operculum. Ten bands 

 of cream-color, bordered with dark umber, start from the tips of the 

 dorsal rays and extend into the lower half of the body, becoming wider 

 and somewhat broken below the middle of the body. These cross-bands 

 are located at the second, ninth, seventeenth, twenty-fifth, thirty-fourth, 

 forty-third, fifty-second, sixtieth, sixty-eighth, and seventy-seventh dorsal 

 rays. There is, besides, a very indistinct caudal tii) of cream-color. 



In the table of proportions appended, a statement appears as to how 

 many times the length of different parts of the body is contained in th(^ 

 total length, or in the length of the head, when that seems more con- 

 venient. 



Table of Measurements. 



* At pectorals. f X"ear middle of body. 



Proc. Nat. Mus. 78 30 Apa* 



X Behind pectorals. 



35, 18T9. 



