148 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Type—QdX. No. 77535, U.S.N.M., 7.7 cm. long, has head 3.9 in 

 length; depth 5.66; eye 4.5 in head; snout 4.5; maxillary 2.12; ocular 

 cirrus 2.42; D. XXII, 16; A. 27: pectoral, 1.41; ventrals long, equal 

 to head. 



Body compressed ; snout evenly decurved ; mouth large, horizontal ; 

 maxillary extending about three-fourths diameter of eye behind 

 posterior border of orbit; teeth in each jaw in a single row, stout, 

 conical; those on palatines in a single row, conical, stronger than 

 those on jaws; several smaller teeth on vomer, separated from those 

 on palatine bones by a short interspace. 



First dorsal inserted slightly behind vertical from posterior border 

 of maxillary, spines long and very flexible, filiform, their tips not 

 reaching beyond the membranes, fourth spine longest, equal to 

 length of head ; soft dorsal and anal confluent with the caudal ; caudal 

 rounded ; 13 rays in pectoral ; membrane in front of first dorsal spine, 

 notched. 



Color in alcohol, dusky brown with purplish reflections, traces of 7 

 darker cross-bars, bordered with narrow yellowish white lines, these 

 lines scarcely discernible in the type, very distinct in some of the 

 smaller specimens; spinous dorsal with dusky shades anteriorly and 

 other dark shades at base of membranes of alternate spines, pos- 

 teriorly; soft dorsal and caudal rays yellowish, membranes trans- 

 lucent; anal dusky, anterior half margined with black; ventrals dark; 

 pectorals similar to caudal ; ocular cirrus yellowish. 



The paratypes have D. XXII-XXIII, 15-16. In some the ocular 

 cirrus is half as long as head. Some of these have the underside 

 of the head crossed by 4 dark cross-bands, a dark purplish area 

 behind eye on cheek and another on opercle near nape; the yellow 

 cross-lines on body very distinct. In the smallest individual the 

 crossbands are broken into tw^o longitudinal rows of dark areas, the 

 upper row along base of dorsal of the shape of a figure 8, the lower 

 row V-shaped. 



An examination of the type of E. 7iivipes and of these specimens 

 bhoAvs that the generic description as given by Jordan and Gilbert 

 must be revised. The dorsal and anal are confluent with the caudal 

 in both these species, and in neither are the teeth on vomer and 

 palatines continuous. There is a single row of stout conical teeth on 

 the palatines, then an interspace, and 2 or 3 smaller teeth on the 

 vomer. 



We take pleasure in naming this new species for our friend, ,Capt. 

 Charles Bradford Hudson, artist and author, who has succeeded bet- 

 ter than any other in depicting on canvas the life colors of American 

 fishes. 



