3178 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



near tip and a corresponding one on the 2 lower rays, the base of the 

 wedge 011 outer ray; base of caudal with a pale undulate vertical bar 

 bordered in front by a black line. In spirits, pale green, the maroon 

 markings faintly persistent, becoming dusky. 



Puerto Rico; known only from the type, 1.45 inches long, taken in the 

 seine at Ponce, January 30, 1899, by the United States Fish Commission 

 expedition to Puerto Rico, (clecoris, beautiful.) 



Doratonotus decoris, EVERMANN & MARSH, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 

 355, Mayagiiez, P. R. (Type, No. 49363, U.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 



Page 1720. A specimen of Alutera monoceros (Osbeck) has recently been 

 recorded by Dr. H. M. Smith from Woods Hole, in Bull. U. S. Fish Com. 



1898 (1899), 273, pi. 64. 



Page 1733. Tetrodon nephelus, Goode & Bean, is a good species distinct 

 from T. spenyleri, Bloch, and should stand as 



2147 (a). SPHEROIDES XEPHELUS (Goode & Bean). 



Page 1968. To the synonymy of Uranidea gracilis (Heckel), add: 

 Coitus gracilis cayuga, MEEK, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., iv, 1888, 315. Cayuga Lake, N. Y. 



Page 2017. The recent studies oi the tide-pool Cottoids of the Cali- 

 fornia coast by Mr. Arthur W. Greeley have resulted in the discovery of 

 some new species and genera and other additional information regarding 

 this group of fishes. The following new species and genera are to be 

 added : 



2384 (a). BLEMUCOTTUS RECALVUS, Greeley. 



Head 3|; eye 4f in head; snout 3; D. IX, 15 or 16; A. 11 or 12; P. 14. 

 Body short, stout, broad anteriorly; the head very broad, short and blunt; 

 snout obtuse; interorbital space 5/6 eye, grooved, the groove leading into 

 a depressed space behind the eyes; mouth distinctly terminal, the maxil- 

 lary reaching a vertical below the anterior edge of orbit, the lower jaw 

 included; minute conical teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; nasal spines 

 very small; no preopercular spine apparent in adults; edge of preopercle 

 rounded ; opercle ending in a rounded flap; branchiostegals six, the mem- 

 branes broadly united, free from the isthmus; gills 3, a slit behind the 

 last gill. Dorsal fins very long, slightly joined at the base, origin of first 

 dorsal directly over tip of opercle, that of soft dorsal in advance of origin 

 of anal; first dorsal slightly rounded, the middle ray the longest; pecto- 

 ral reaching origin of anal, membranes of first seven rays deeply emargi- 

 nate; ventrale reaching vent; anal papilla of male very large; anal low, 

 the membranes of all the rays except the last three deeply emarginate, 

 none of the rays enlarged in the male; caudal short, slightly rounded. 



Cirri few and small, those of top of head joined at base in conspicuous 

 bunches, two irregular occipital rows, a few below these on the side of 

 head, and on the margins of preopercle and opercle; a few above origin 

 of pectoral, and a weak row along the anterior third of the lateral line. 



Color of body, light brown, vermiculated with white, and marked dor- 

 sally with 4 or 5 wedge-shaped spots of dark brown, edged with white, 



