310 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [86] 
xx. Dorsal rays 50 to 51; anal rays 35 to 37. 
4- SPMIOS 10:00 71 226s amore hcerae Var.. brachialis, 109 (b). 
AY AOORIOS Ho T0107 crocs noe eee Var. comifer, 109 (¢). 
gg. Vertical fins dark, without distinct markings. Body broad, ovate, 
the depth about 14 in length ; pectoral fin with 4 rays; 
scales of right side with numerous black hair-like append- 
ages; color brownish, with 8 or 9 narrow vertical black 
bars; fins dark, without distinct markings; D. 56, A. 42, 
Dati? Ole PRe SEED chien ha eee ee MAZATLANUS, 110. 
Sf. Pectoral fins of 2 or 3 rays, about as long as eye. 
h. Body with 6 to 12 narrow dark bands; these sometimes obsolete. 
i. [Body rather narrowly ovate, its depth 13 in length ; «pectoral fin 
very small, of about 2 rays, not much longer than eye; 
color brownish olive, with six pairs of deep brown vertical 
lines extending on the dorsal and anal fins. JD. 58, A. 44, 
lat. S5.9 Galnther) 2 ee ees eee FONSECENSIS, 111. 
ii. Body broadly ovate; the depth 1} in length; pectoral as long 
as eye; fringes on lip of right side, few and small, incon- 
spicuous; scales on blind side moderately enlarged; hair- 
like appendages on scales few or none; D. 56. A. about 
39. Seales about 76; color brown, finely mottled and 
speckled with darker, and with about a dozen narrow, very 
faint cross-streaks ; fins with similar dark spots; scales all 
finely dotted under the lens....-.-..-.--. PUNCTIFER, 112. 
hh. Body with very numerous (20 to 40) black cross-bands, which are 
as broad as the interspaces. 
j. (Blind side of snout with few fringes; pectoral rays 3; depth 
1} in length; D. 55, A. 48, lat. 1.80. Color grayish; head, 
body, and fins with numerous blackish, irregular wavy 
bands, broader than the interspaces; caudal fin with deep 
black spots.] (Géinther)......-------- bs Satciee Scutoum, 113. 
jj. Blind side of head profusely covered with fringes; scales on 
body very rough, those of the eyed side of head enlarged 
and with long spinules ; numerous patches on body covered 
with appendages like short, coarse black hairs; lower lip 
with fringes on eyed side nearly half as long as eye; pec- 
toral small, not longer than eye, which is rather large, 
about 5 in head; lower jaw included ; upper eye largest and 
much advanced; anterior rays of dorsal, with fringes of 
cirri. Head 3% in length; depth 12; D. 55, A. 47. Scales 
77 to 80. Color dark-brown, with numerous (about 40) 
close-set, straight, black cross-bars, each about as wide as 
the interspaces; vertical fins, with about threo elongate 
black spots on the membrane between each pair of rays. 
GARMANTI, 114. 
aa. Pectoral fins wholly wanting. (Achirus.) 
k. [Dorsal rays 46; anal rays 33; right lower lip with serrated 
fringes ; nostril in a fringed tube; depth 14 in length; 
head 3; color brown, head and body with numerous large, 
rounded, or kidney-shaped white spots, edged with dark 
brown. Lat.l. 70.] (Giinther) ....-.-. FIMBRIATUS, 115. 
kk. Dorsal rays 50 to 55; anal rays 37 to 46; right lower lip 
fringed ; left nostril with some fringes ; depth 14 in length; 
head 4; none of the scales of eyed side with hair-like ap- 
pendages; color dusky olive, more or less mottled and with 
about eight dark vertical stripes, these varying very much 
