NEW FISHES 



219 



The specimens in the collection are from Tagus and Iguana Coves, 

 Albemarle Island. 



MEASUREMENTS OF MalacoctcuHS zonoii'astc)'. 



Length in mm I 67 



Head | 28 



Depth 29 



Eye 8 



Interorbital Width ^ 4 



Maxillary 9 



Pectoral . . . ; 27 



\'entral 21 



Height of Spinous Dorsal i 14 



Height of Soft Dorsal j 16 



Height of Anal 14 



Caudal I 21 



Depth of Caudal Peduncle ; 9 



LEPISOMA JENKINSI sp. nov. 



pi. XVI. 



Type. — Cat. No. 6350 Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 

 Iguana Cove, Albemarle Island. 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal spines nineteen ; interorbital width one and 

 one half the diameter of eye ; dorsal profile of head evenly rounded ; 

 scales large, fifty-six to sixty-one in lateral line. Color, above dark 

 brownish-red with six blackish transverse bars on the sides ; below 

 light, spotted with red. 



Description of the Type. — Head three and one third in length ; 

 depth three and one eighth ; eye four and one half in head ; maxillary 

 two and one fifth; interorbital six and one fifth; D. XIX, 1 1 ; A. II, 

 18; pores 58. 



General shape of body as in L. xanti., but the head higher with the 

 dorsal profile more rounded and without an emargination at the nape. 

 Mouth narrow, teeth anteriorly enlarged, the two lateral ones in front of 

 the diastema recurved ; vomer with a v-shaped patch of five teeth, the 

 median one largest ; vomerine teeth followed by two or three smaller 

 palatine teeth on each side. Nuchal filaments well developed and much 

 thicker than in L. xanti. Maxillary extending to vertical from middle 

 of pupil. Interorbital wide, width one and two fifths diameter of eve. 



Scales larger than in L. xanti., fifty-eight (pores) in lateral line, 

 eight scales between base of the dorsal fin and curved anterior part of 



