42 Field Columbian Museum — Zoology, Vol. VII. 



70. Sphyraena borealis De Kay. Sennet. 



5416 No. 546. Nonsuch Bay. Seine. Sept. 29. 



5417 No. 841, Ely's Harbor. Seine. Scales. 120. Sept. 20. 



71. Sphyrsena picudilla Poey. Sennet. 



5418 No. 517. Nonsuch Bay. Seine. Oct. 4. 



72. Sphyraena sphyraena (L.). 



Goode, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts, xiv, Oct., 1877, 292, as 5. spet. 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., xlvi. No. 7, 1905, 116, 



CXV. Family Holocentriclse. 



73. Holocentrus ascensionis (Osbeck). Squirrel. 

 Hungry Bay. Aug. 24. 



10 miles off Ireland Id. Fish-pot. Aug. 25. 

 Nonsuch Id. Eel-pot. Sept. 3. 

 The Flatts. Young. Seine. Sept. 8. 

 Well Bay, Cooper's Id. .Seine. Sept. 3. 

 Hayward's Bay. 3 young. Seine. Sept. 6. 

 Smith's Cove, Hamilton. Young. Sept. 9. 

 Great Shoal, Castle Harbor. Pot. Sept. 29. 

 Long Bay, Somerset. Young, Seine. Sept. 22. 

 Old Ferry, St. George's. Seine. Sept. 23. 

 Great Bay, St. David's Id. Seine. 6 young. 



Sept. 18. 

 Ely's Harbor. Seine. Young. Sept. 20. 

 Hungry Bay. Seine. Nov. 7. 



74. Holocentrus meeki Bean. 



Bean, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash,, xix, Feb. 26, igo6, 31. 



5079 No. 144. Hayward's Bay, St. David's Id. Seine. Sept. 6. 



A squirrel-fish of the small-scaled group represented by H. ascen- 

 sionis was seined in Hayward's Bay, St. David's Id. Only two 

 young individuals were taken. From H. ascensionis the species can 

 be at once distinguished by its low dorsal and anal rays, its small eye, 

 and its equal caudal lobes, as well as by other characters. 



D. XI, 14 to 15; A. IV, 10; scales 4-54 to 55-7. The head is =?*r 

 of total length to base of middle caudal rays. The maxilla extends 

 to the perpendicular through the front of the eye. The eye is ^^ of 



