310 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Three others were taken by Mr. Fox at the same locality during 
the past summer. During the summer of 1900 Mr. David Mc- 
Cadden reported about 6 examples taken from a floating soap- 
box at Stone Harbor. ‘The box had evidently floated some time 
and was partly filled with water, the fish probably having gained 
entrance through one of the spaces made by the removal of a part 
of the lid. Mr. McCadden further informs me that this fish has 
been reported from about wrecks, floating logs, boxes, etc., at 
the same place. 
Palinurichthys perciformis Fowler, Science, XXV, 1906, No- 
vember 9th, p. 596. 
Family APHREDODERIDZA. 
Aphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams). 
Pirate Perches 
Color when fresh deep rich dusky-brown, center of each scale 
more brownish than margin. Side scarcely paler than back. 
Head colored on upper surface like back, and also well down 
on its sides. Lower surface of head, belly and abdomen more 
or less buff-white. Lower side of head and abdomen with dusky- 
brown specks extending below into pale color of these parts, 
especially latter, which is nearly completely specked. Lips brown- 
ish. Iris pale brownish. Dorsal neutral dusky-black, becoming 
pale or grayish, with a narrow pale sub-basal longitudinal band, 
and base itself narrowly black. Caudal blackish, its upper and. pos- 
terior margins narrowly whitish, fin becoming paler neutral tint 
basally. Anal with narrow dusky base, then a duffuse pale 
yellowish-buff tint becoming merged into blackish distal portion 
of fin, transition marked by neutral shades. Pectoral dull olive 
or yellow-buff, distally blackish or dusky, and basally with a 
brownish blotch. Ventral buffy-yellow, becoming somewhat 
neutral distally, and sprinkled with a few brownish or pale dusky 
specks. Length 43 inches. In a cut-off of Mantua Creek, above 
Mantua. April 8th, 1906. §S. H. Hamilton and H. W. Fowler. 
