Jordan and Evermann Fishes of North America. 2393 



tinuous, with slender rays, the last one joined to the caudal. First two 

 rays of anal short, thick, and fleshy in the males. Male deep olive, with 

 dark cross shades; numerous pale spots on the sides which form undu- 

 lating lines converging backwards; dark stripes downward and forward 

 from eye; top of head and upper part of dorsal fin usually with fine, black 

 spots; spinous dorsal with a median orange longitudinal band; other fins 

 mostly dusky olive. Some specimens with the outer part of both dorsals 

 and the top of head dusted with black spots/ others with these spots 

 obsolete; soft dorsal and caudal light orange, barred with light green- 

 ish ; anal dull orange, with an obscure blackish median band, the exserted 

 tips of the rays abruptly whitish; pectorals dusky olive, strongly tinged 

 with orange; ventrals blackish, orange at tip. Female with about 8 

 blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal fin; the body everywhere 

 with pale spots; fins all sharply barred with blackish and olive. Pensa- 

 cola Bay, Florida ; common about the wharves and ballast rocks in shallow 

 water; taken with seines and pinhooks. Allied to Chasmodes bosquianus, 

 but with the mouth smaller, the form less elongate, (saburra, ballast.) 



Chasmodes saburrce, JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 298, Pensacola, 

 Florida (Type, No. 30824. Coll. Jordan & Stearns) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 958, 

 1883. 



2744. CHASMODES NOYEMLINEATUS (Wood). 



Head 3; depth 3f ; eye 4|; snout 3|; maxillary reaching posterior 

 border of eye. D. XI, 18; A, III, 17. Head and shoulders heavy, the 

 body lance-shaped, tapering gradually to tail; snout short, blunt, profile 

 nearly vertical to eye, thence gently rounded; mouth rather large, some- 

 what oblique, the maxillary reaching posterior border of eye ; dorsal and 

 anal high, longest dorsal rays 2 in head ; anal considerably lower ; pectoral 

 nearly as long as head; ventrals If in head. Color, side with 6 broad, 

 dark, vertical bars, the anterior 4 extending on the dorsal fin, these bars 

 separated by irregular narrow pale spaces; entire side profusely covered 

 with small white spots; a small black spot at base of caudal; head mot- 

 tled with light and dark; 2 small dark spots on under side of lower jaw; 

 just behind these and extending downward from the angles of the mouth 

 are 2 other larger, blacker spots, while behind these, extending down- 

 ward and backward from middle of cheek, is an irregular black line; 

 whole head with numerous fine dark punctulations; dorsal and anal vari- 

 ously spotted or barred with light and dark; spinous dorsal with a large 

 dark area at top of anterior spines ; caudal faintly barred ; pectorals and 

 ventrals more plainly barred. Length 2 inches. South Atlantic coast of 

 the United States, South Carolina to Florida; abundant in Indian River, 

 Florida, where numerous specimens were taken in January, 1896, by Ever- 

 mann & Bean, (novem, nine; Uneatus, lined.) 



Pholis novemlineatus, WOOD,* Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1825, 280, Charleston Harbor, 

 South Carolina. 



*The following is the substance of Wood's original description of this species: "Body 

 with 9 whitish longitudinal bands ; dorsal fin with an irregular blackish spot between the 

 tirst and second rays ; remainder of the tin clouded with dusky brown. Head descending 

 somewhat abruptly, tubercitlated anteriorly ; nostrils with a small appendage ; head, lips, 



