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4637 c. Beesley's Point. S. F. Baird. 



Dorsal with eight, anal with seven, caudal with five, pectoral vith 

 five bands. 

 4637 d. Beesley's Point. S. F. Baird. 



Dorsal with eight, anal with six, caudal with four, pectoral with spots 

 arranged in irregular, almost complete, bauds. 

 4637 e. 



Dorsal with nine bands, the second and third and sixth and seventh 

 confluent. Anal with nine bands. Pectoral with irregularly arranged 

 quadrangular spots of brown and white, in a sort of checkerboard ar- 

 rangement. 

 3441. Norfolk, Va. Dr. Jeffries. 



Body as usual. Dorsal with seven, anal with eight, caudal with four 

 bands. Pectorals irregularly spotted with brown, arranged approxi- 

 mately in five bands. 

 23541. Punta Eussa, Fla. Dr. J. W. Velie. 



Body brown, marbled with very dark brown, and spotted with whitish. 

 Dorsal with nine very regular blackish bands of uniform width, sharply 

 separated by white. Anal with nine regular bands. Caudal with five. 

 Pectoral brownish black dotted with white. 

 20632. Wood's Holl, Mass. TJ. S. F. 0. 



Young specimen. White, with sides coarsely reticulated with brown. 

 Dorsal with seven irregular confluent bands. Anal with nine irregular 

 bands. Caudal irregularly marbled with broad penciling of brown. 

 Pectoral with three or four very irregular lines of brown blotches. 



D 26. A 21. 



Others in the same bottle correspond in markings and radial formulae. 

 746. Indianola, Texas. J. H. Clark. 



Faded alcoholic specimens show a general agreement with the other 

 Gulf specimens in the presence of seven to nine bands in both dorsal 

 and anal, and in the white spots on pectoral and caudal. 



D. III. 25; A. 20 (in two specimens). 



21477. Pcnsacola, Fla. Silas Stearns. 



Body nearly black, but agreeing in general with the descriptions, and 

 with tendency to white maculationon body, pectoral, and caudal. Three 

 bands on dorsal, eight on anal, not clearly separated as in the Key West 

 specimen. 



