1614 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



bb. Scales 26 ; dorsal and caudal faintly barred ; ventrals much produced, their 

 color pearly ; first 2 dorsal spines flexible, not much produced. 



VENTRALIS, 2025. 



aa. Two anterior spines of dorsal similar to the others, none of them pungent ; ventrals 



moderate, not reaching anal. 



c. Cheek below eye with a row of 4 or 5 small scales; head 3J; depth 3|; scales 

 27; grayish, dorsal edged with darker; axil blackish, some streaks on head. 



INFIKMUS, 202C. 



cc. Cheek below eye without scales ; anterior profile of the head not very steep 

 and not trenchant; head 3 in length; depth 3g ; scales 2-29. Color in 

 spirits, reddish, the fins dark (in the male) ; head without evident blue 

 lines ; a blue vertical streak on each scale, as in other species ; no silvery 

 blotch, and no inky spot on body. MARTINICENSIS, 2027. 



2024. NOVACULICHTHYS ROSIPES (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 3f ; depth 3i. D. IX, 13; A. Ill, 12; scales 2-23 or 24-8. Body 

 sharply compressed and of moderate height, the anterior profiles not com- 

 pressed to a sharp edge, the upper profile descending in a regular gentle 

 curve from dorsal fin to end of snout, thus much less nearly vertical than 

 in most species of the genus; the snout comparatively long and pointed, 

 the preorbital low ; maxillary nearly reaching vertical from front of orhit, 

 3^ in head; teeth as usual, no posterior canines; height of preorbital 5^ 

 in head ; eye large, 1J- times interorbital width, 3| in head (in young) ; 

 distance from snout to eye | head ; a series of small scales below eye, head 

 otherwise naked. Two anterior dorsal spines (in young) much elevated, 

 with filamentous tips, their length f that of head ; the third or fourth 

 spine is the lowest, the spines thence slightly increasing to the last; sec- 

 ond spine connected by membrane with the third; longest soft ray of 

 dorsal about 2f in head ; caudal rounded, 1J in head ; ventrals If ; pec- 

 torals 1^. The young male described above, 2 inches long, had the fol- 

 lowing coloration in life: Light olive, scarcely paler below, the head 

 more yellowish; body with 5 irregular brownish cross bars, the first 

 obscure at the nape, the last forming a blotch at base of caudal; a small 

 yellowish spot at middle of base of caudal and a fainter one above it; a 

 dark-olive band downward from eye, with a spot-like band of the same 

 color before it, and another, which becomes yellow, on the cheek behind 

 it; all 3 of these pass around the lower jaw; an olive blotch on 

 opercle; some brown dots behind eye; dorsal cherry red, paler poster- 

 iorly, darkest on the produced anterior rays; caudal pale, scarcely tinged 

 with reddish; anal cherry red, the lateral stripes forming 2 spots of 

 deeper red on the fin ; pectoral plain ; ventrals deep cherry red. A second 

 specimen, smaller in size, probably the female of the species, had a dif- 

 ferent coloration, as follows : Orange brown, everywhere much mottled, 

 the edges of many scales being brown, the brown becoming yellowish on 

 lower parts, 5 brown cross bands darker and broader than in the other 

 specimen, the first at nape, the last at base of caudal, ending behind in a 

 sharply defined convex curve; two yellowish-brown bands across from 

 eye over lower jaw; .tip of lower jaw of the same color; 2 similar 

 bands across breast before ventrals; dorsal and anal transparent, except 



