l.', r )4 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



One specimen, No. 8411, Stanford University Museum, 2.3 inches long, was taken by Doctor 

 Thompson on the reef at Garden Key. , 



It represents a new genus of Uranoscopids allied to Kathetosloma, but the armature of the head 

 totally different, notably the expanded preopercle. 



Execestides (E£eKE6ri8r/s) was a citizen of Athens, with a strange and barbarous lineage 

 I Aristophanes). 



Family ECHENEID1D£. 



204. Leptecheneis naucrates (Linnaeus). 



A single specimen. Often found attached to large jew-flshes. (T.) 



Family KU-XXIID.-E. 



205. Acteis macropus (Poey). 

 Reported by Garman from the Tortugas. 



206. Acteis moorei ( Evermann & Marsh |. 



Abundant. Heretofore known only from the type taken in Porto Rico. 



Life colors, general color gray white: dorsal hyaline; 8 gray blotches extending over second and 

 third spines, between these while and black dots; soft dorsal with three rows of dots; from eye to 

 snout a dark line, iris light yellow with brown-red squares; 8 dark red-brown bands across body, 

 center of band darker than above or below; cross-bars beginning at colored bloteheson dorsal; 1 hand 

 on caudal peduncle; top of peduncle whitish; 2 rows of dots on tail; lateral line whitish. On dark 

 bottom this lish is white and black. 



A count of the spines and rays in dorsal lin of -!•> specimens shows the following variations: xix, 

 9, one specimen; xxi, 9, two specimens; xxi, 10, nine specimens; xxi, 11, one specimen; xxn, 8, one 

 specimen; xxn; 9, twenty-three specimens; xxn, 10, six specimens. In 70 per cent the total is 31 tin 

 supports, and in over 50 per cent the formula is xxn, it. The type for this species has xxi, 11, which 

 figure only occurs once in the Tortugas series. (T.) * 



207. Lepisoma nuchipinne (Quoy & Gaimard). 



One specimen captured on west shore of Loggerhead Key. 



208. Ericteis kalisherae Jordan. 



Shoal water inside of Bush Key. Three specimens known. 



209. Auchenopterus fasciatus (Steindachner ). 

 Six specimens. 



Color, dark brown, abdomen salmon brown; white irregular mark on gill, sharply edged with 

 dark brown; inside of this a pale brown mark smaller and of same general shape, with three pale 

 specks in it: from this mark a series of irregular pale blotches extending three-fourths down body to 

 level of pectoral; body indistinctly handed; dorsal lighter brown than body with seven dark brown 

 bands continued upon it; anal with fine dark brown hands I darker than the dorsal or brow n of body i, 

 these corresponding to posterior five on dorsal; caudal pale, with 4 or 5 rows of li.Ltht brown dots, its 

 base very dark brown. (T.) ~ 



210. Blennius favosus Goode A: Bean. 



Common; the male recorded by Garman in 1896 as Blennius pilicornis. 



Color of one specimen : Brown specks and lines principally on spinous dorsal; inner two-thirds of 

 dorsal opaque bluish; nine dark-brown blotches on hack , base of spines at these blotches with a darker 

 brown dot; edge of soft dorsal and caudal somewhat orange red; at times body above level of middle 

 of pupil much lighter brown than below, this lighter color extending on forehead and cheek below, 

 eye to upper lip, while snout and jrills are dark brow n : pectoral rays with blue dots beyond the reticu- 

 lations 6f base; webs hyaline; rays yellowish-gray brown. 



Life color of another specimen, seven shiny blue-white spots alongside, with a tendency to be 

 rectangular; tips of pectoral and caudal orange; pupil emerald; belly from vent to ventral fins silvery 

 blue white; on second dorsal spine a black blotch; at base of spines a dot, occasionally one w it bout 

 dot; eye cirrus branched; upper parts olive brown, head and opercle plain dark brown; a fine speck- 



