July, 1906. Catalogue of Bermuda Fishes — Bean. 67 



diffused brown band from snout continued behind eye to base of 

 caudal, its greatest width equal to length of snout. An obscure nar- 

 row band below this broken up into spots on alternate scales. A 

 dark blotch on the membrane between the 5th and 6th dorsal spines 

 and another between the 6th and 7th, neither of them as long as the 

 eye. A minute dark spot at the base of the last dorsal ray. A 

 small dark blotch on the upper axil of the pectoral. A narrow dusky 

 bar across the interorbital space and two similar bands on the nape, 

 the middle one extending from the upper posterior margin of one 

 orbit to the other and the third one blending into the band from eye 

 to caudal fin. A narrow white streak, narrower than the pupil, from 

 angle of mouth to upper axil of pectoral, then running into one of the 

 oblique streaks on the body. A second whitish streak from mandib- 

 ular articulation across preopercle and subopercle. About eleven 

 narrow, interrupted, whitish streaks running obliquely across the 

 body, beginning in front of the pectoral origin and extending back- 

 ward past the anal origin, but not reaching above the level of the upper 

 axil of the pectoral. Membranes of all the fins pale, but the spinous 

 and soft dorsals were probably dusky in life in their lower portions. 

 Length of the type specimen to caudal base, 4 inches. Named 

 for Capt. W. E. Meyer, of St. George's, Bermuda, in recognition of 

 his well-known service*^ t^ <r-ien''o 'n th<^ ,-, i1,>ti\' 



177. Iridio microstomus Bean. 



Bean, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, Feb. 26, 1906, 30. 



5138 No 541. Nonsuch Bay. Seine. Sept. 26, 1905. 



To the group of species containing Iridio tneyeri belongs a small 

 individual, which measures lyi inches to base of caudal. 



D. IX, n; A. Ill, 11; scales 3-27-9. Seven or eight rows of 

 scales in front of dorsal origin, the scales on nape smaller than those 



Figure 8. Iridio microstomus Bean. 



