3146 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



border. In alcohol the general color is grayish black, yellowish below, 

 the tawny-ochracepus or yellow becoming darker, almost black, and the 

 white spots on body becoming yellowish. 



This species seems to be related to L. obscuratus (Poey), but differs from 

 it markedly in color. Puerto Rico; only the type known, a specimen 15 

 inches long collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk at 

 Mayagiiez, January 20, 1899. (Named for David Starr Jordan.) 

 Lycodontis jordani, EVERMANX & MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19), 352, 

 Mayaguez, P. R. (Type, JSTo. 49358, U. S. N. M. Coll. Evermann <fe Marsh.) 



Page 447. After Stolephortis productus (Poey), insert: 



734 (a). STOLEPHORUS G1LBERTI, Evermann & Marsh. 



Head 3.25; depth 3.4; eye 4; snout 6; maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.7; inter,- 

 orbital 4. 9; D. 15; A. 23; pectora!2.1; ventra!3.5; caudal 1.3; scales 42-9. 



Body comparatively deep and strongly compressed, the belly trenchant, 

 without serrations; snout thick, much projecting; maxillary reaching 

 nearly to root of mandible, scarcely serrate; eye moderate; tip of lower 

 jaw reaching vertical from front of eye; distance from lower posterior 

 angle of cheek to vertical from posterior margiu of opercle much less 

 than from same point to eye; dorsal inserted far in advance of anal, just 

 behind insertion of ventrals, midway between anterior edge of eye and 

 base of caudal. 



Color in spirits: Back light olivaceous with darkpunctulations; rest of 

 body below a line from shoulder to upper base of caudal silvery; faint 

 traces of golden behind eye; no lateral band. 



This species is very close to Stoleplwrus garmani, Evermanu & Marsh, 

 differing chiefly in the much smaller eye, the more uniform color of the 

 back, the somewhat more sharply compressed belly, and the more nearly 

 entire maxillary. 



Puerto Rico; only the type, a specimen 4.5 inches long, known. This 

 was collected by the U. S. Fish Commission expedition to Puerto Rico, 

 at Palo Seco, near San Juan, January 13, 1899, associated with S. produc- 

 tus. (Named for Dr. Charles Henry Gilbert.) 



Stolephorus gilberti, EVERMANN & MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 352, 

 Palo Seco, P. R. (Type, No. 49359, U. S. N. M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 



734 (b.) STOLEPHORUS GARMAM, Evermann & Marsh. 



Head 3.2; depth 3.3; eye 3.5; snout 5.5; maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.7; 

 interorbital 5 ; D. 14; A. 23; pectoral 2; ventral 3.5; caudal 1.3; scales 42-9. 



Body comparatively deep and strongly compressed; the belly not 

 strongly trenchant, without serrulations; snout thick, much projecting; 

 maxillary reaching nearly to root of mandible, very finely and weakly 

 serrate; eye large; tip of lower jaw reaching vertical from front of eye; 

 distance from lower posterior angle of cheek to vertical from posterior 

 margin of opercle much less than from same point to eye: dorsal inserted 

 far in advance of anal, just behind insertion of ventrals, midway between 

 anterior edge of pupil and base of caudal. 



