952 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



base of the fin a little procuireut, its length 3 in head. Head 2f ; 

 depth 2f. D. XI, J, 9; A. Ill, 5; P. 20; Lat. 1. 32 (31 tubes). South 

 Carolina to Florida. 

 (Goocle & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. 1882, 421.) 



103S (c). S. calcarata Goode & Bean. 



Color essentially as in S. stearnsi; axil of pectoral whitish, with 

 dusky specks, a black spot at its upper edge; ventrals mostly black. 

 Body moderately robust ; lower jaw slightly projecting, with a small 

 symphyseal knob; maxillary reaching jjast pupil, its length half head. 

 Suborbital without pit, the bony stay moderate, armed with 2 small 

 spines. Nasal spines small. Interorbital space narrow, with 2 longi- 

 tudinal ridges, its width f length of eye. Cranial ridges rather low, 

 with sharp spines, arranged as A S. stearnsi. Occipital cavity almost 

 obsolete, rei^resented by a slight depression. Preopercular spines 5, 

 the lowermost stout, directed downward and forward, the uppermost 

 rather long, more than half eye. Opercular and scapular spines mod- 

 erate. Eye large, nearly 3 in head. Supraocular tlaps minute; a few 

 other small flaps on head. Cheeks with rather large imbricated scales; 

 opercle, with some scales anteriorly and on its flap; breast scaly; scales 

 of body large, not ctenoid, with few dermal flaps or none. Pores of 

 lateral line very conspicuous. Gill-rakers short and small. Dorsal 

 spines rather slender, the longest 2| in head; longest soft ray 2^ in 

 bead. Anal spines small, the second and third subequal, 3 in head. 

 Soft anal rays moderate. Ventrals reaching past vent. If in head. 

 Pectoral long, l\ in head. Depth 3. D. XI, 1, 9; A. Ill, 5; P. 19; Lat. 

 I. 28 (25 tubes). West coast of Florida. 

 (Goodc & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 422.) 



Page 088. Cottunculus microps is very fully described and well figured 

 by Collett, Norske Nord-Havs Exp. 1880, 18. The eye is here repre- 

 sented as shorter than snout, and about C in head, the pectorals reach 

 past front of anal, and the dorsal rays are VI-13 to VI-15. It is pos- 

 sible that the American species is difierent, but the resemblance of the 

 two is very great. 



Page 091. It is thought by Collett (Norske Nord-Havs Exp. 1880, 34) 

 that Icelus hicornis is identical with Icelus hamatus. If this supposition 

 is correct, the species should stand as 1048, I. hicornis (Reinh.) Gill. 

 Icelus furciger Malm (Forh. Skand. Naturf. 1803, 410) is identical with 

 I. hamatus. In life the head of this species is provided with very slen- 

 der cirri. 



