FISH FAUNA OF THE fORTUGAS. 



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Family DACTYLOSCOPIC. 



200. Gillellus semicinetus Gilbert. 



One specimen -. 13 inches 1< mtr, color very light gray, with 6ne greenish graj cross-bands, faintly 

 margined with black dots, the anterior 4 inclosing a median red '!<>t; bands I una' lest on back, narrowing 

 suddenly at side before ending above median line; lirst band through base of anterior dorsal, broad 

 and irregularly rectangular; anterior to tin* on nape a four-sided blotch, wider at one end, pure gray 

 with green-gray edges; second band under seventh dorsal spine, about half as wide as first; remainder 

 about same width and dividing the body into about four equal sections; between first, second, third 

 and fourth body bands is a pale faun-eel,, red uiediauly placed figure extending only a little way each 

 side of dorsal tin; between fourth and fifth a trace only of these marks. (T. ) 



Family GRANOSCOPIDjE. 



203. Execestides egregius Jordan & Thompson, new genus and new species. (Figs. 4 and 5.) 



Head 2.15 in length; depth 3.30 (4.05 with caudal); D. 12; A. 17; P.22; V. i, 5; eye 4.30 in head; 

 snout 5.30; maxillary 2.30; opercle in head, 2.20; longest dorsal ray 4:10; caudal L'.05; longest anal 

 raj IS; pectoral 1.80; ventral IS. 



Fig. $.—Exece&lidei egregius Jordan ,v Thompson, new species. Type. 



Body oblong, not compressed; the head broad and depressed, very large, monstrous in form, the 

 preqpercular angle developed as a long flattened wing-like appendage, without spine, its length 2.90 in 

 head; number of blunt ridges radiating from lower part of cheek; mouth moderate, almost vertical., 

 the lower jaw projecting; nqappend- 

 age on chin; maxillary very broad; 

 teeth smali e\ en. Topof head broad, 

 cneave, the interorbital space about 

 twice diameti i ol eye; top of head a 

 transverse ridge between eyes; a tu- 

 bercle with radial ing i idges on each 



parietal; 2 blunt ridges at nape; oper- 

 cle very long, without spine, but with 

 a strong median ridge; a smaller ridge 



,,n suhop, icle. Scales none; lateral 



line running high, crooked, close to 

 I s,,ii dorsal posteriorly; no 



spinous dorsal; Soft dorsal small, op- 

 posite the anal, which is higher and longer; caudal rounded; pectoral large, reaching past front of 

 anal; ventral small, well forward, inserted under preopercle. 



Color blackish, made of dark points; fins pale, with a blackish area at has,- of each; a pale streak 

 along lateral line and one across Iwse of dorsal. 



Pig. 6. — Exe* fordan & Thompson. Type. 



