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ent; no notch between spinous and soft parts. Head cuboid, compressed, 

 narrowed anteriorly. Symphysis of lower jaw forming a very acute angle. 

 A single series of strong, blunt, conical teeth on each jaw, and on vomer 

 and palatines. Yomer and palatine teeth larger, their series continuous, 

 parallel to the series in upper jaw. No cirri at the nape; sometimes a 

 cirrus on upper part of eyeball. Gill openings very wide, the membranes 

 broadly united below, free from the isthmus. Lateral line obsolete. This 

 genus bears some resemblance to Blenniua, but the dentition is entirely 

 different, approaching that of Ckasnoptif. Tropical America, in rather deep 

 water. (Emblema; fj.ftXrf/^a, a banner.) 



a. Eye without cirrus. 



b. Depth 5 in length ; dorsal rays 33; ventrals not pure white. ATLANTICA, 2756. 



bb. Depth 7 in length; dorsal rays 37; ventrals pure white. NIVIPES, 2757. 



aa. Eye with a long cirrus on eyeball above pupil; ventrals dusky; maxillary not 



extending beyond eye. OCULOCIRRIS, 2758. 



2756. EMBLEMARIA ATLAXTICA, Jordan & Evermann, new species. 



Head 3f ; depth 5. D. 35 ; A. 24 ; P. 15 ; V. 3. Body slender, compressed ; 

 head heavy ; snout evenly decurved ; mouth large, horizontal, reaching back 

 of eye. Jaws with short, strong, incurved conical teeth. Fin rays long 

 and filamentous, the longest dorsal rays as long as head ; anal rays shorter. 

 Coloration faded in the type, but traces of about 7 broad brown vertical 

 bars as broad as ej-e and twice as broad as the pale interspaces, the dark 

 bars extending upon dorsal fin; ventrals pale. Gulf of Mexico. Known 

 from 1 specimen, 3 inches long, taken from the stomach of Neomcenis aya, 

 on the Snapper Banks off Pensacola, Florida; very close to E. nivipes, but 

 more robust, with fewer dorsal rays. 



Emblemaria atlantica, JORDAN <fc EVERMANN, Check-List Fishes, 472, 1896, name only, 

 Snapper Banks off Pensacola, Florida. (Type, No. 33915. Coll. Silas Stearns.) 



2757. EMBLEMARIA NIVIPES, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3f in length; depth 7. D. XXIII, 14; A. 25. Body everywhere 

 equally compressed, posteriorly tapering ; head wider than body, of about 

 equal depth, with very short, subvertical, sharply compressed snout ; eyes 

 very large, approximated above, with some vertical range; orbital ridges 

 sharply raised above, the interorbital region very narrow, channeled, 

 about equaling diameter of pupil ; eye 3| in head. Gape very wide, hori- 

 zontal, low, reaching much beyond eye, the maxillary about f head, not 

 produced beyond angle of mouth ; intermaxillaries separated by a groove 

 from the snout, this groove continuous for the entire length of the upper 

 jaw, maxillary not evident, apparently adnate to the skin of thepreorbital. 

 First dorsal spine inserted over margin of preopercle; spines all very 

 slender and flexible, the posterior but weakly differentiated from the soft 

 rays, the anterior portion of fin very high, the spines filiform, not exserted 

 beyond the membrane ; the longest dorsal spine about length of body, 

 the last spine about | head; membranes of last rays of both dorsal and 

 anal slightly joined to base of caudal. Front of anal nearer snout than 



