02 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



the spots being half as large as the eye or smaller, arranged 

 in greater part in broad transverse bands, as wide as the inter- 

 spaces, of which bands the foremost and narrowest passes 

 from the nape to the opercle, the second lies immediately 

 behind the pectoral, the third just in front and the fourth just 

 behind the middle of the total length, and the fifth, more 

 indistinct, crosses near the ends of dorsal and anal. The 

 caudal is crossed by two rather indefinite narrow streaks. 

 The pectoral is white at its base and bears three or four nar- 

 row curved transverse bands of white separating three or four 

 similar bands of black, which, with the white, are more distinct 

 in the lower half of the fin. 



Off Key West. % 



Specimens from depths of 150 fathoms or more agree well 

 with these in the formulae and to some extent in marks, but 

 not in the distinctness of the latter. The difference is evi- 

 dently not due to age, since the sizes are the same. The 

 caudal of the deep sea examples is light at the base and on 

 the upper and lower margins, and blackish on the inner rays 

 to the posterior extremity. 



Symphurus plagusia. 



Pleuronectes plagusia Bl. Schn., 1801, Syst. Ichth., 162. 

 Off Key West, in about 20 fathoms. 



Synodus intermedius. 



Saurus intermedius Kg., 1829, Spix. Pise, 81, pi. 44. 

 Off Key West, in about 60 fathoms. 



Hemirhamphus balao Les., 1821, J. Phil. Ac, 11, 136. 

 Florida Reefs. 



Exoc^etus obtusirostris Gthr., 1866, Cat., vi, 283. 

 " South of the Gulf Stream," off the Bahamas. 



Gymnothorax moringa. 



Murcena moringa Cuv., 1829, R. An., 11, 352. 

 Spanish Wells. 



