512 S. Garman — Ichthyological Fauna of the Bermudas. 



Light olivaceous puncticulate with brown, centers of scales darker ; 

 fins whitish, as also lower surface of head and belly. Each flank 

 with three longitudinal yellow sti'eaks, a single scale in width, sep- 

 arated from one another by spaces five scales in width, beginning 

 behind the shoulders and ending forward of the caudal, lowest one 

 longer. Each stripe bears a remote resemblance to a lateral line. 

 At the bases of dorsal and anal there are faint indications of similar 

 streaks. On a photograj^h of this specimen when fresher, there is a 

 darker tract on the scales of the cheek, a dark blotch below the 

 anterior portion of the dorsal, and another above the foremost rays 

 of the anal fin. 



Named in honor of its discoverer, Professor A. E. Verrill of Yale 

 University. 



Hab. Bermuda Islands. Bailey Bay, 4-6 fathoms. One speci- 

 men. 



Of the four known species of Brosmophycis, two, B. marginatus 

 and B. ve?itralis, belong to the coasts of California and Lower Cal- 

 ifornia, while the third was taken at Key West, Florida. As is 

 shown below, in afiinities the new species is very close to that from 

 Florida or that from Lower California. At present the different 

 members of the genus may be distinguished thus : 



Rostral cilia present {Brosmophycis) ; 



D. 92 ; A. 70 ; bright reddish brown marginatus. 



Rostral cilia absent ( Ogilbia) ; 



D. 64 ; A, 50 ; LI. 100 ; brownish, without markings ventralis. 



D. 68; A. 50; LI. 87 ; Ltr. 27 ; uniform brownish cayorurn. 



D. 70; A. 50; LI. 100; Ltr. 23; brownish, striped and 



blotched Verrillii. 



