FISHES COLLECTED BY BAHAMA EXPEDITION. 85 



given in honor of Professor C. C. Nutting, to whom science 

 is so much indebted for the origination and successful accom- 

 plishment of the expedition. Besides the specimens in his col- 

 lection there are several others in that of the Mus. Com. Zool. 



Axtexxarius radiosus sp. n. Plate r. 



Antennarius sp. Nutting, 1895, Prelim. Rep., 149, pi. xiv, f. 2. 



D. 3+13; A. 8; V. 5; P. 11; C.9. 



Resembling A. tigris Poey in shape, squamation, etc., but 

 differing in coloration and in possession of a much longer 

 first dorsal ray. The staff in this ray is very slender, much 

 longer than the second ray, and bears a small trifid bait. 

 Second and third dorsal rays shorter than the first, the third 

 well tied down by the skin. Scales uniform, sharp. No 

 cutaneous fringes, on large specimens. 



Greyish or brownish white, darker on nape and dorsal fin. 

 with numerous spots of light color, as large as the orbit, sur- 

 rounded by more or less complete edgings of brown, producing 

 a semblance to reticulation, or to spotting by drops of liquid. 

 Seven streaks of brown radiate from the eye, as in A. //oris; they 

 are continued upon the head and down toward the ventrals. 

 A large spot of black, white edged, a little larger than the 

 orbit, half on the fin and half on the muscles of the body, 

 occupies the space between the eighth and the tenth ravs of 

 the soft dorsal fin. The light areas vary in intensity and lie 

 close together over nearly the whole of bodv and fins. Belly 

 lighter, with faint indications of lines of browish, radiating 

 from the head. Caudal with oblique transverse cloudings of 

 brownish; hindmost one-fourth light. The color in life was 

 probably reddish or yellowish. 



Secured off Key West, in about fifty fathoms. 



A young individual, of less than an inch, taken opposite 

 Havana is of lighter gray and has a large ocellus, of light 

 color in the center, between the black one at the base of the 

 dorsal and the upper end of the humerus. There are small 

 cutaneous fringes on the flanks. 



