Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2187 



in total without caudal. All the rays simple except the last, which is 

 divided. The pectoral beginning under middle of spinous dorsal and 

 extending to below the fifth ray of the soft dorsal, its rays all simple. 

 The ventral base overlapping lower extremity of pectoral base, its origin 

 under the gill opening. The fourth and longest ray equaling \ of total 

 length without caudal. A small but distinct anal papilla. Color gener- 

 ally light brown, the back with numerous narrow streaks and blotches of 

 slightly darker brown; a dark blotch on membrane between the third 

 and fourth dorsal spines, in some cases occupying nearly all the mem- 

 brane, in other cases more limited and nearly elliptical in shape ; anal 

 with a broad subvertical dark band, the tips of rays and a small area of 

 the membrane behind each ray pale ; the lower caudal lobe with a nar- 

 row submarginal dark band; ventral with 2 indistinct narrow dark 

 bauds on its outer half. From Blake Station XXX, off Barbados, in 209 

 fathoms; Station CLXXX, at 137 fathoms; Station XXXIII, off Santa 

 Cruz, at 115 fathoms; Station 2 CCXVI, at 119 fathoms; Station CCXXX, 

 at 84 fathoms. (IJLHX$, whip; fyopsco, bear.) 



Callionymus himantophorus* GOODE & BEAN, Ocean. Ichth., 296, pi. LXXVI, figs. 268, 

 268 a, b, 1896, off Barbados. 



2513. CALLIONYMUS CALLIURUS, Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Head 3jJ- to tip of opercular spine (5 in total) ; depth 7 (9). D. IV, 6; A. 

 4. Body flat below, the ventral surface bordered on each side with a fold 

 of skin which is wider than the pupil; a single lateral line; diameter of 

 eye equaling length of snout, 3^ in head; maxillary not extending to 

 eye ; preopercular spine with 2 barbs above, the anterior one larger and 

 turned forward; gill opening a minute foramen opening upward. The 

 last dorsal ray equaling length of head, an d the first dorsal spine reach- 

 ing its tip when the fin is depressed; ventral fins connected by a broad 

 membrane to the middle of the outer pectoral region; pectoral fins as 

 long as the head. Cheeks, opercles, connecting membrane of ventral 

 fins and autepectoral region with milk-white spots; lower jaw black near 

 the rictus ; a series of black dots on branchiostegal membranes, 1 or 2 

 similar dots in front of pectorals, 2 on the cheek forming a series with the 

 second branchiostegal spot; 4 black spots on the marginal membrane of 

 the belly, other black spots above it ; lower half of body with numerous 

 dirty white spots ; pectorals transparent, ventrals dusky ; membrane of 

 anal sprinkled with minute black points aggregated into black spots in 

 places, and with opaque white spots; caudal transparent, having minute 

 points, its upper half with opaque milk-white bars running obliquely 

 downward and backward from ray to ray; lower half with interrupted 

 longitudinal lines of opaque white, alternating with black spots ; dorsal 

 transparent, with white and dark dots most conspicuous between last 

 rays; body marbled with light and darker. Key West, Florida ; 1 speci- 

 men dredged in 5 fathoms. (%d/U.o, beauty; ovpd, tail.) 



Callionymus calliurus, EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1888, 76, South 

 Beach, Key West. (Type, No. 26265. M. C. Z.) 



* The species was listed by Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 2d ser. 1, 78, as " Callionymus 

 agassizii, Goode & Bean," a name only, accompanied by no description. 



