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collected at Beaufort July 11, 1860, and sent to the National Museum (no. 4318) 

 by Sergeant Wm. Alexander, U. S, Army, was described by Dr. Theodore Gill 

 in 1863 as a new species under the name of Chcerojulis grandisquamis. Another 

 specimen was obtained there by Dr. Yarrow in 1870; but later collectors did not 

 find the fish, and it was not until 1902 that the species was again recorded. In 

 that year, on September 12, the steamer Fish-Hawk dredged 8 or 10 specimens 

 1 to 3.5 inches long off Beaufort (at station 7344), at a depth of 13 fathoms. All 

 of these show a distinct dark lateral stripe from snout to base of caudal and a 

 paler stripe below, a black spot at base of last dorsal ray, and a round dark spot 

 at base of caudal rays; the two largest specimens have a black spot on opercle, 

 and the larger of them has a black triangular spot on the tip of each caudal lobe; 

 while in the smallest specimens (1 to 2.67 inches long) there is a very distinct 

 black spot on dorsal fin between fifth and seventh spines, and the terminal caudal 

 spots are faint or absent. 



285. IRIDIC MACULIPINNA (Miiller & Troschel). 

 Spotted-finned Doncella. 



Juh's maculipinna Miiller & Troschel, in Schomburgk, History of Barbados, 674, 1848; Barbados. 



Pusa (?) radiata, Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 374; Beaufort. 



Platyglossus maculipinna, Jordan, 1886, 38; Beaufort. Yarrow, 1887, 91; Beaufort. 



Iridio maculipinna, Jordan & Evermann, 1898, 1594, north to Beaufort, N. C. 



Diagnosis. — Very similar to Iridio bivittatus, but the depth a Httle greater, eye larger 

 (contained 4.5 times in head), and snout shorter (3.5 times in head). Color: a dark lateral 

 band extending from snout nearly to tip of tail; no second band below this; no dark spot on 

 opercle; a small black spot in axil of pectorals; a large black spot on dorsal fin, usually between 

 fifth and seventh spines but often extending further forward, (maculipinna, spotted-finned.) 



The claims of this West Indian species to a place in the North Carolina 

 fauna rest on a specimen 1.5 inches long taken at Beaufort in 1878 by Jordan & 

 Gilbert. The specimen was lost before a final identification was made, and it 

 is possible that the little fish was Iridio bivittatus. The principal mark of dis- 

 tinction is the black spot on the spinous dorsal fin, but, as has been shown, this 

 is sometimes present on small, deep-water examples of bivittatus. 



Genus DORATONOTUS Gunther. 



Small fishes of beautiful coloration peculiar to the West Indies and the 

 South Atlantic coast. Form compressed, head not sharp anteriorly, the pro- 

 file straight or concave; mouth wide; jaw teeth in a single series, with 2 enlarged 

 canines in front of each jaw and a posterior canine present on each side of upper 

 jaw; lateral line interrupted posteriorly; scales large; opercles and cheeks scaly; 

 gill-membranes connected, not attached to isthmus; dorsal spines strong, 9 in 

 number, anterior ones elevated; soft part of dorsal similar to anal. Two known 

 species, 1 recently described from Porto Rico, and the following. (Doratonotus, 

 spear back.) 



