Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2371 



blackish; dorsal pink, dusky on its margin, a black spot on the fourth 

 ray, and another on its hinder part upon the twenty-fourth and twenty- 

 fifth rays, the latter spot extending on to the body; membrane of anal 

 black; occipital tentacles black. La Paz, Lower California. A single 

 specimen, l^- inches long, dredged at a depth of 22 fathoms. (Lockington.) 

 (altus, high; velum, sail.) 



Cremnobates altivelis, LOCKINGTON, Proc. Ac. Nat, Sci. Phila. 1881, 116, La Paz, Lower Cal- 

 ifornia. (Coll. W. J. Fisher.) 



2714. AUCHENOPTERUS MARMORATUS (Steindacliner). 



Head 3f to 3f in body; depth 3 to 3|. D. III-XXII, 1; A. II, 19; scales 

 2-36-9 (28 or 29 anteriorly); eye 4 to 5 in head; first dorsal 1^; pectoral 

 H. Body comparatively deep, compressed, the back somewhat arched; 

 head pointed ; mouth large, the maxillary extending to behind the eye, 2 

 in head; opercle with a sharp spine; jaws equal; teeth pointed, in narrow 

 bands, the outer larger ; vomerine teeth in 1 row ; supraocular tentacle 

 small, about as large as nuchal tentacle ; no nasal tentacle. Pectoral a 

 little shorter than head; dorsals separate, the first dorsal higher than sec- 

 ond dorsal, the spines of which are about | head. Color in life of varying 

 shades of olive gray or sand color, with a series of whitish blotches on 

 head and along sides ; markings on dorsal and anal whitish ; 2 dark-blue 

 ocelli on dorsal and 1 on anal, these edged with orange and interiorly with 

 black; ventrals, pectorals, and caudal whitish, barred with clear orange 

 red; first dorsal black at tip; a curved blackish line at base of caudal; 

 lower side of head yellowish brown, with whitish bands ; specimens from 

 coral reefs more spotted. Florida Keys to Cuba; common in the eelgrass 

 at Key West. Our specimens, 2 to 2$ inches long, taken at Key West and 

 Havana, (marmoratm, marbled.) 



Cremnobates marmoratus, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, v, 174, pi. 12, f. 6, 1876, a small 

 rocky island north of Cuba; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 962, 1883; JORDAN & GIL 

 BERT, Proc. U. S. Hat. Mus. 1884, 142. 



Subgenus AUCHENOPTERUS. 

 2715. AUCHENOPTERUS AFFINIS (Steindachner). 



Head 4; depth 4|. D. III-XXVII, 1; A. II, 19; V. I, 2; scales 33 to 35. 

 Form of A. integripinnis; maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of 

 eye ; a fringed tentacle above eye and 1 on each side of occiput. First dor- 

 sal low; its longest (second) ray shorter than the highest of second dorsal; 

 membrane of third spine joining the fourth spine just above its base; last 

 ray of second dorsal joined by membrane to base of caudal. Dark 

 brown, paler than in A. nox, but darker and more uniform than in Auchen- 

 opterus fasciatus; lower side of head pearly gray, thickly speckled with 

 darker; sides with 5 very faint darker cross bands; dorsal and anal dusky, 

 the latter with a pale edge; between the eighteenth and twenty-second 

 dorsal spines a large dark spot ocellated with yellowish; caudal yellowish 

 white, with darker cross streaks, a blackish band at its base; pectoral 



