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alternating narrower pale interspaces ; caudal mottled or irregularly barred 

 with grayish, its base with the plain pale-yellow ground color, which is 

 sharply separated from the rest of the iin by a curved dark line; posterior 

 half of pectoral barred with dark formed of dots on the rays, the first bar 

 plainest; basal half of pectoral pale; ventral with basal portion dark, 

 the rest barred like pectoral. 



A pretty and strongly marked blenny, known only from Puerto Ki< <, 

 where 4 specimens were obtained on the coral reefs at Ponce and 1 at 

 Puerto Real by the U. S. Fish Commission expedition to Puerto Rico. 



(cingulatHS, banded, from the conspicuous vertical bars.) 



Auchenoptervs cingulatus, EYERMANX &. MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Deo. 19, 1899), 

 361, Ponce, P. R. (Type, No. 49375, U.S.X.M. Coll. Evermann <fc Marsh.) 



2717 (<1). AUCHEXOPTERUS FAJARDO, Evermaun &. Marsh. 



Head 3.25; depth 4.8; eye 4. 2; snout 4.8: maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.5; 

 interorbital 5.5; scales 2-37-8: B. XXIX, 1, the longest spine 2.3 in head; 

 A. II, 17; pectoral 1.4; ventral 1.7; caudal 1.4. Body elongate, strongly 

 compressed posteriorly ; head moderate, little compressed ; mouth large, 

 the long and slender maxillary reaching beyond the posterior border of 

 orbit; jaws subequal; teeth of upper jaw conical and sharp, in a patch in 

 front, becoming one row posteriorly ; teeth in lower jaw similar, but fewer 

 and weaker; vomeriue teeth in two series. Nasal, ocular, and nuchal 

 tentacles present, all but the nasal about c -branched. Dorsal origin over 

 edge of preopercle, the first 4 spines graduated, the fourth shortest, thus 

 forming a notch ; dorsal ending with an unbranched soft ray, the joints 

 visible under a strong lens; membrane of dorsal joined low to caudal; 

 anal origin under eleventh dorsal spine and the decurved portion of lateral 

 line; pectoral reaching past front of anal; ventral moderate, of 3 rays, 

 the innermost shorter and slenderer. 



Color in spirits: Body and head light reddish, becoming a little paler 

 posteriorly ; body with traces of 6 or 8 dark vertical bars extending on 

 the fins, their margins ill defined ; breast pale, 2 dark reddish bars down- 

 ward and backward from eye across upper and lower edge of check to 

 opercle; maxillary blotched with dark; upper lip and tips of both jaws 

 dark ; lower part of head spotted with dark; a row of about 5 small dark 

 spots on edge of preopercle ; iris pink ; dorsal and anal fins gray, except for 

 the extensions of the dark bars of the body and a few white spots on tne 

 dorsal; a distinct ocellus on the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty- 

 fourth dorsal spines and their membranes; base of caudal gray, like the 

 ground color of dorsal and anal; posterior part of caudal with gray mot- 

 tlings on the rays only, this portion separated from the basal part by a 

 space without pigment on rays or membrane, making a distinct vertical 

 bar; pectoral and veutrals mottled. Puerto Rico. 



A handsomely colored blenny, known only from the type, 1.63 inches 

 long, collected February 17, 1899, by the the U. S. Fish Commission expe- 

 dition to Puerto Rico. (Named for the type locality.) 



Auekenopterus fajardo, EVERMANN & MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 

 361, Fajardo, P. R. (Type, No. 49376, U.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 



