FISHES COLLECTED BY BAHAMA EXPEDITION. yg 



vidual of the collection is very light in the ground color 

 and has black puncticulations, with light centres, on the sides, 

 among which are scattered small blotches of brownish; its 

 fins have black tips. 



Spanish Wells and Tortugas. 



HOLACANTHUS CILIARIS. 



Chcetodon ciliaris Linne, 1758? S. N., 1, 276. 

 Tortugas. 



POMACANTHUS ARCUATUS. 



Chcetodon arcuatus Linn., 1758, S. N., 1, 273. 

 Tortugas. 



Upeneus maculatus. 



Midlus maculatus Bloch, 1793, Ausl. Fische, vn, 95, pi. 348, 

 fig. 1. 



Tortugas. 



Scorp^ena dactyloptera De la Roche, 1809, Ann. Mus., 



xiii, pi. 22, f. 2. 



From European specimens Dr. Giinther gives this species 

 twenty-four vertebrae; each of two individuals in this collec- 

 tion has twenty-five. The occipital excavation and the subor- 

 bital spines are hardly noticeable, and the general appearance 

 approaches that of Sebastes. 



Taken in 105 fathoms, six miles S. y 2 E. of Sand Key 

 Light, Station 33. 



Scorp^ena plumierii Bloch, Schneider, i8oi,Syst. Ichth., 194. 

 Off Key West, in 60 fathoms. 



Holocentrus coruscus Poey, i860, Mem., 11, 158. 



This species is somewhat close to H. longipiinic C. V. in 

 form and proportions, but is distinguished by the smaller 

 number of fin rays and the black spot on the first dorsal. It 

 is intermediate between that species and H. re.xillarius Poey ? 

 being more elongate than the latter. The Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology has specimens from the Bahamas. 



Spanish Wells. 



