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CATALOOUE OF A COIiliECTION OF FISHFS OBTAINED ITS TILE 

 CUIiF OF MFXICO, BY DR. J. \V. TEI^IE, AVITH DFSCRIPTIONS OF 

 SEVEIV IVEW SPECIES. 



By O. BROTTJV OOOI>£ and TARL.ETOIV H. BEAN. 



MALTHEID^. 



1. Halietrtichthys aciileatus (Mitchill), Goode. 



Lophius aculeatus, Mitchill. Arner. Monthly Mag. II, 1878, p. 325 (Straits of 

 Bahama). 



HalieuUclithys reticulatus, Poey. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1863, p. 91 

 (Cuba). 



Halieutichthys aculeatus, GoODE. Proc. U. S. N. M., II, 1879, p. 109 (calling atten- 

 tion to Mitchill's description). 



A single specimen, No. 23552, 5 centimeters long, was collected by 

 Dr. Yelie, at Key West. 



DIODONTID^. 



2. Chilomycterus geometricus (Linn.), Kaup. 



Two Specimens (No. 23542) collected at Key West. They belong to 

 Giinther's var. «, but are much lighter than any specimens among the 

 hundreds we have seen from the North Atlantic coast, the width of the 

 brown longitudinal stripes being comparatively small in relation to those 

 of light color. 



OSTRACIONTID^. 



3. Ostracion trigonus, Llnn^us. — Shell-fish. 



A single specimen in salt (No. 23645) from the west coast of the pen- 

 insula. 



BALISTID.E. 



4. Monacanthus occidentalis, Giinther. 



A single specimen (No. 23551), 63 millimeters long, from Key West. The 



specimen has the scales upon the posterior portion of the body hispidate, 



also a pair of strong recurved spines on each side of the caudal peduncle. 



Four indistinct longitudinal brown bands upon the side, and a fifth much 



deeper in color at the base of the ventral flap, triangular in form, the 



base of the triangle extending from base of the ventral spine to the vent. 



The outer half of the ventral fiai) is white with a submarginal stripe 



and three or four lines of ocellse of light brownish gray. 



D. 30, A. 30. 



SYNGNATHID^. 



5. ? Syngnathus louisianae, Giinther. 



A single specimen (No. 23540), 64 millimeters long, was collected by 

 Dr. Velie at San Marco Island, Florida. 



