FISHES COLLECTED BY BAHAMA EXPEDITION. Si 

 POMATOMUS SALTATRIX. 



Gasterosteus saliatrix Linn., 1766, S. N., 491. 

 Very young. "From the stomach of a dolphin." 

 Florida Reefs. 



CORYPH^ENA Sp. ?, JUV. 



Off Key West, in 6 fathoms. 



NOMEUS GRONOVII. 



Gobius Gronovi, Gmel., 1788, Linn. S. N., 1, 1205. 



Apparently these are common attendants on Physaliae, as if 

 for protection. On several occasions Physalias have been taken 

 with partially digested Nomei in their grasp, which would 

 indicate that the little fishes were sometimes preyed upon by 

 the "men of war." 



Tortugas. 



Echeneis naucrates Linn., 1758, S. N., 261. 

 Tortugas. 



Porichthys plectrodon J. & G., 1882, P. U. S. Mus., 291. 



Above the silvery band on the flank there is a row of about 

 nine large spots, as large as the eye or larger; above this 

 row, at each side of the base of the dorsal, there is a sec- 

 ond row of a dozen of smaller spots; and on the dorsal fin 

 near its margin a third row of much smaller ones appears. 

 The upper half of the head is thickly sprinkled with small 

 spots. This maculation is a common pattern on specimens 

 from the shoals of the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. 

 The luminous organs are very distinct; they recall those of the 

 Chauliodontidae and the Sternoptychidas. 



Pterophrynoides gibbus. 



Lophius gibbus Mitch., 1815, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., 

 1, pi. 4, f. 9. 



The description and figure of Lophius raninus by Tilesius 

 do not apply to these specimens. They bear some resem- 



