[53] CATALOGUE OF TUE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



174.— OPHISURUS • Lac(?i)iHle. (170 b.) 



617. Ophisuriis acuminatus- Giouow. W. (584?*.) 



618. Ophisunis xysturus-' Jordan & Gilbert. P. 



175.— OPHICHTHYS' Ahl. (170) 



619. Ophichthys niiurus' Jonlaii tfc Gilbert. P. 



620. Ophichthys triserialis Kaup, C. P. (583) 



621. Ophichthys ocellatus Le Sueur. P. (584) 



622. Ophichthys guttifer ' Bean &. Dresel. W. 



623. Ophichthys macrurus Poey. W. (58:? fc.) 



624. Ophichthys chrysops Poey. W. (583 t") 



625. Ophichthys zophochir'' Jordan & Gilbert. P. 



626. Ophichthys schneideri" Steindachner. W. (582) 



627. Ophichthys iiitertinctus* Richardson. W. 



Head 11 J in distance from top of snout to vent ; head and trunk a little longer than 

 tail. Length of type, 31 inches; bead, If; trunk, 14f. Egniont Key, Florida; dis- 

 tinguished from C. teres by the very short bead. 



{Cwcitla baacanium Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1884, 43.) 



' For a discussion of the correct application of the names Ophichthys, Ophisunis, and 

 Coecula see Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 648. 



■^As stated in the Synopsis, p. 974, the name acuminatus should supersede lotigus for 

 this species. 



^Ophichthys xysturus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 346. Mazatlan 

 to Panama. 



^Ophichthys »HtHr«s Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 357. Cape SanLucas. 



■'' Ophichthys guttifer Bean & Dre-sel. 



Allied to 0. ocellatus Le Sueur. Greatest depth equal to distance from angle of 

 mouth to tip of snout. Dorsal fin beginning at a distance behind vertical from tiiJ 

 of pectoral equal to length of snout. Pectoral nearly 3^ in head; head 8 in total 

 length, 2f in trunk. Eye 1^ in snout ; 9 in head. Twenty-one oi 22 small white 

 spots along median line. Gulf of Mexico. (Bean & Dresel, Proc. Biol. Soc, Washing- 

 ton, II, 1884, 99.) 



t" Ophichthys zophochir Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 347. Mazatlan. 



'The specimens which vre have referred to Ophichthys punctifer (mordax)helongTatheT 

 to Ophichthys schneideri Steindachner. 



Yellowish brown ; heiul with small dark brown elongate spots ; sides with about 

 three rows of rather large oval spots, the lower disappearing behind the vent, number 

 of rows becoming greater anteriorly ; broad half spots along upper margin of dorsal, 

 and bordered with blackish. Head 2i in trunk; snout conical, blunt anteriorly. 

 Cleft of mouth very long, 2 in head ; eye 11 ; snout 7. Teeth in both jaws in two rows, 

 those of the outer row in both very sharp, unequal, some of them quite long, those of 

 the inner row smaller and subequal ; vomerine teeth rather small, in two roivs, diverging 

 forward; one or two long canines in front, behind the two series of the upper jaw. 

 Both nostrils with short tubes. Pectoral 4 in head ; dorsal beginning about 1^ eye's 

 diameters behind the point of the pectoral. Tail longer than the rest of the body by 

 li head's lengths. {Steindachner. ) West Indies, occasionally taken from the .stomachs 

 of Red Snappers at Peusacola. Apparently distinct from O. punctifer (^O. mordax), 

 having the vomerine teeth in two rows instead of three. 



Crotalopsis mordax Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 154 ; not Macrodonophia 

 mordax Poey; Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., VIII, 67, 1879; Jordan «& Gilbert, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 143.) 

 * Ophichthys interiinctus. 



Dark brown above, paler below ; sides and back with about three rows of large 

 ovate brown spots, somewhat irregular in size and position, those of the upper row- 

 smallest, the large and small ones of the lower rows somewhat alternating. Spots 

 on head small and numerous. Dorsal with an interrupted dark margin ; anal with 



