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Depth of body of adults about 2.7 in standard length; dorsal profile 

 from snout forms an angle of about 35° with a line from tip of snout 

 to center of caudal fin; longest pectoral rays reaching a vertical 

 through base of second to third anal spines; pelvic fins not reaching 

 origin of anal fin; snout of adults about 4 to 4.5 in head length. 



Color in alcohol light tan with alternate broad and narrow dark 

 bars on body, the one across caudal peduncle and upper part of pre- 

 vious one at base of soft portion of dorsal fin jet black; small pale 

 spots on head, nape, chest, pectoral base, and spinous portion of 

 dorsal fin. 



Color in life: body with 5 broad dark bars, the first 3 yellowish 

 brown, the upper rounded part of the fom*th black and the fifth across 

 the caudal peduncle entirely black; white interspaces between first 4 

 broad bars bisected by narrow yellowish brown bars; head, anterior 

 part of body, and dorsal fin with, bright red-orange dots; scaled 

 portion of dorsal fin colored like body, imscaled portion hyaline; 

 red-orange spots on soft portion of fin located on fin rays (fade in 

 preservative); caudal fin pink, becoming white basally; anal and pelvic 

 fins hyaline with light brownish rays; pectoral fins pale pink; his 

 yellowish. 



Remarks. — Known previously from the Isle of Pines just south of 

 western Cuba and the Saba Bank in the Lesser Antilles. The Saba 

 Bank specimen is a 26-mm. juvenile collected by William Beebe at a 

 depth of 25 fathoms. In recent years the species has been collected 

 by the author in the Vu'gin Islands, Puerto Rico, Cm-agao, Haiti, and 

 the Bahamas, and by Walter A. Starck II and the author at Alligator 

 Reef in the Florida Keys. Starck collected a 23-mm. specimen from 

 Banco Chinchorro, off Yucatan. Collecting depths have been 8 to 

 120 feet. These specimens are deposited at the Marine Laborator}^ 

 of the University of Miami and at the University of Puerto Rico, 

 Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Largest specimen, 68 mm. in standard length, 

 from the Florida Keys. 



The holotype (BOC 382) is 54.5 mm. in standard length. 



Two specimens collected in August 1955 measure 24.0 and 24.7 mm. 

 in standard length and appear to be transforming from the late post- 

 larval stage to the juvenile form. Although pale, the barred color 

 pattern may be faintly seen, the caudal peduncle and upper part of 

 preceding bar being the darkest. These specimens differ from larger 

 pinos in being relatively more elongate (depth 7.5 and 8.1 mm., re- 

 spectively), in having a forked caudal fin (caudal indentation 3 and 

 2.5 mm., respectively), and in having the eye nearer the center of the 

 head (separated by more than 0.5 mm. from upper profile of head). 

 A 25-mm. juvenile collected in November 1959 has the typical adult 

 color pattern, a slightly forked tail, a body depth of 9 mm., and the 



