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18. Auchenopterus cingulatus Evcrni;uin iV Marsh, new species. 



Head 3 J depth 4. 4; eye 5; suout4.2; maxillary 2.2; iuterorbital 6; scales 2-29-7 ; 

 D. iv-xxiv, the longest spines 3 iu head; A. ii, 16, the longest ray 2.25 in head; 

 pectoral 1.3; ventral 1.8; caudal 1.6. Body rather long and slender, strongly 

 compressed; head large, little compressed; snout moderately sharp; mouth large, 

 maxillary reaching posterior border of eye, the lips heavy, the jaws subequal 

 or the lower very slightly projecting; teeth conical and sharp, in more than one 

 row in each jaw, most numerous in front; a patch on vomer; a nasal filament, 

 a 3 or 4-branched supraocular tentacle, and a 4-brauched nuchal tentacle, the 

 branches of the latter each with a dark dot on their anterior surface. Dorsal origi- 

 nating over edge of preopercle, of spines only, the second slightly longer than first; 

 second, third, and fourth graduated, the fourth comparatively short, thus forming 

 a notch partly separating the first 4 spines from rest of fin; dorsal membrane joined 

 low with caudal ; anal free from caudal, about as high as dorsal, its thirteenth and 

 fourteenth rays longest; first anal spine under tenth or eleventh dorsal spine; 

 caHdal rounded, shoi'ter than head, of about 13 rays; pectoral large, reaching anal, 

 of 12 rays; veutrals moderate, of 2 rays, the spine not evident. Lateral line run- 

 ning high to eleventh dorsal spine, here abruptly decurved two rows of scale-s, 

 thence median to base of caudal. 



Color in spirits: Body and head pale yellow; body with 4 heavy dark-brown 

 vertical bars, each about 4 rows of scales wide, extending on the vertical fins; 

 membrane of anterior dorsal spines, opercle, occipital, and scapular region, 

 bloti hed with the same color; a dark bar backward and downward from eye across 

 cheek, rather more than one-half width of eye; top of head between and behind 

 eyes darkened ; preorbital, maxillary, lips, and under part of head thickly punctulate 

 with dark ; dorsal and anal barred with the extensions of the wide dark body bars, 

 and with the alternating narrower pale interspaces; caudal mottled or irregularly 

 barred with grayish, its base with the plain pale-yellow ground color which is 

 sharply separated from rest of fin by a curved dark line; posterior half of pecto- 

 rals with dark bars formed of dots on the rays, the first bar plainest; basal half of 

 pectoral pale; ventral with basal portion dark, the rest barred like pectoral. 



A pretty and strongly marked bleuny ; four specimens obtained from the coral reefs 

 at Ponce, and one at Puerto Real. The type, No. 49375, U. S. N. M., from Ponce, is 

 0.8 inches long, and none of the cotypes exceeds 1 inch. 



Cingulatus, banded, from the conspicuous vertical bars. 



19. Auchenopterus fajardo Evermann & Marsh, new species. 



Head 3.25; depth 4.8; eye 4.2; snout 4.8; maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.5; iuteror- 

 bital 5.5; scales 2-37-8; D. xxix, 1, the longest spine 2.3 in head; A. ii, 17; pec- 

 toral 1.4; ventral 1.7; caudal 1.4. Body elongate, strongly compressed posteriorly; 

 head moderate, little compressed; mouth large, the long and slender maxillary reach- 

 ing beyond the posterior border of orbit; jaws subequal; teeth of upper jaw con- 

 ical and sharp, in a patch in front, becoming one row posteriorly ; teeth in lower jaw 

 similar, but fewer and weaker; vomerine teeth in two series. Nasal, ocular, and 

 nuchal tentacles present, all but the nasal about 5-branched. Dorsal origin over 

 edge of preopercle, the first 4 spines graduated, the fourth shortest, thus forming a 

 notch; dorsal ending with an unbranched soft ray, the joints visible under a strong 

 lens; membrane of dorsal joined low to caudal; anal origin under eleventh dorsal 

 spine and the decurved portion of lateral line; pectoral reaching past front of anal; 

 ventral moderate, of 3 rays, the innermost shorter and slenderer. 



Color in spirits: Bodj^ and head light reddish, becoming a little paler posteriorly; 

 body with traces of 6 or 8 dark vertical bars extending on the fins, their margins 

 ill-defined; breast pale, 2 dark reddish bars downward and backward from eye 

 across upper and lower edge of cheek to opercle ; maxillary blotched with dark ; 

 upper lip and tips of both jaws dark ; lower part of head spotted with dark ; a row 

 of about 5 small dark spots on edge of preopercle; iris pink; dorsal and anal fins 

 gray, except for the extensions of the dark bars of the body and a lew white spots 



