352 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1. Lycodontis jordaiii Evermaun & Marsh, new species. 



Head 7 in total length ; depth about 14; eye 8 in head; snout 5; gape 2.2; inter- 

 orbital a little less than snout. Teeth uuiserial, strong, sharj), not close-set, all 

 entire and without basal lobes; tail considerably longer than rest of body ; giU- 

 opening smaller than eye; snout rather pointed, lower Jaw the shorter, the month 

 capable of being completely closed. Dorsal fin high, much higher than anal; nasal 

 tube long, about 3 in eye. 



Color: Tawny ochraceous, paler below; upper jaw gray; iris blue; longitudinal 

 brown stripes on side of head in front of gill-opening; head and body covered with 

 numerous small, round, white spots, those on head smallest; a series of larger ones 

 along upjier part of side, and 1 or 2 irregular series of large ones on side of belly ; 

 between these on the middle of side the spots are smaller; dorsal with an irregular 

 series of small white spots along the base, and another series of about 16 much 

 larger, more quadrate spots of same color along edge of tin, some of the spots cutting 

 the border, which is black ; anal similarly spotted and with black border. In alcohol 

 the general color is grayish-black, yellowish below, the tawny ochraceous or yellow 

 becoming darker, almost black, and the white spots on body becoming yellowish. 



This species seems to be related to L. ohacnratus (Poey), but differs markedly from 

 it in color. Only the type (No. 49358, U. S. N. M. ), a specimen about 15 inches long, 

 was obtained. This was collected at Mayagiiez, January 20, 1899. 



Named for Dr. David Starr Jordan. 



2. Stolephorus gilbert! Evermann & Marsh, new species. 



Head 3.25; depth 3.4; eye 4 ; snout 6; maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.7; iuterorhital 

 4.9; D. 15; A. 23; pectoral 2.1; ventral 3.5; caudal 1.3; scales 42-9. 



Body comparatively deep and strongly compressed, the belly trenchant, without 

 serrations; snout thick, much projecting; maxillarj' reaching nearly to root of man- 

 dible, scarcely serrate; eye moderate; tip of lower jaw reaching vertical from front 

 of eye; distance from lower posterior angle of cheek to vertical from posterior mar- 

 gin of opercle much less than from same point to eye; dorsal inserted far in advance 

 of anal, just behind insertion of ventrals, midway between anterior edge of eye and 

 base of caudal. 



Color in spirits: Back light olivaceous with dark punctulations; rest of body 

 below a line from shoulder to upper base of caudal silvery ; faint traces of golden 

 behind eye; no lateral band. 



This species is very close to Stolephorus garmani, differing chietly in the much 

 smaller eye, the more uniform color of the back, the somewhat more sharjjly com- 

 pressed belly, and the more nearly entire maxillary. One specimen, the type (No. 

 49359, U. S. N. M.), 4.5 inche's long, collected at Palo Seco, near San Juan, January 

 13, 1899, associated with >S. productus, with which species both S. (jilberti and *S. gar- 

 mani Evermann & ^larsh are allied. 



Named for Dr. Charles Henry Gilbert, of Stanford University. 



3. Stolephorus garmaui Evermann & Marsh, new species. 



Head 3.2; depth 3.3; eye 3.5; snout 5.5; maxillary 1.7; m.andible 1.7; interorb- 

 ital5; D. 14; A. 23; pectoral 2; ventral 3.5; caudal 1.3; scales 42-9. 



Body comparatively deep and strongly compressed; the belly not strongly trench- 

 ant, without serrulations ; snout thick, much projecting; maxillary reaching nearly 

 to root of mandible, very finely and weakly serrate; eye large; tip of lower jaw 

 reaching vertical from front of eye; distance from lower posterior angle of cheek to 

 vertical from posterior margin of opercle much less than from same point to eye; 

 dorsal inserted far in advance of anal, just behind insertion of ventrals, midway 

 between anterior edge of pupil and base of caudal. 



Color in spirits: Back dark near the median line, below this somewhat reddish; 

 rest of body below a line from shoulder to upper base of caudal silvery; some golden 

 on snout and behind eye; no lateral band. 



This species has a general resemblance to Stolephorus productus, but is unquestion- 

 -ably distinct from it; the anal is much shorter and inserted farther back, the body 



