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showed the same color as those taken in the early spring. The others were 

 gorgeously bright with yellow, red, and orange about the foreparts of their 

 Ibodies. These were all males, the darker ones being females with eggs almost 

 ready to hatch. 



I had an opportunity to watch a pair of these fishes getting ready to lay. 

 The female would move swiftly about in the sand under a protecting rock, 

 thus scooping out a hollow place in which she probably deposited her eggs. 

 In a few days the female, looking thinner, lay quite still near the hollow in 

 the sand, where I presume the eggs had been laid; the male was swimming 

 nervously about as if to drive away intruders. Up to the time I left, more 

 than a month after the probable laying of the eggs, the male, with the same 

 gaudy color, was still swimming about; the female was gone, and I presume the 

 young had been hatched and had long since departed. 



Salariichthys textilis (Qloy & Gaim.). Molly miller. 

 Salarias textilis, Quoy & Gaim. Goode, '76*, p. 29. 

 Distribution. — Bermudas to Northern South America. 

 Very common in tide pools about the shores and at North Rock. 



BROTULIDAE. 

 Brosmophysis verrillii Gaeman. 

 Garraan, :00, p. 511. 

 Distribution. — Bermuda. 

 D. 71; A. 52; 11. 98; Itr. 25. 



Several specimens of this little known Brotuloid were taken by Mr. H. B. 

 Bigelo^v and myself from the rock pools near Flatts Inlet and Gibbet Island. 

 A diligent search at Bailey's Bay, the type locality, and in many other likely 

 places failed to reveal a single specimen. 



PLEURONECTIDAE. 

 Platophrys lunatus (Linne). Plate fish. 



Distribution. — West Indies generally. 



Apparently the only flat fish which is common about Bermuda. Several 

 were taken during my stay in the summer. The only specimen which I had 

 an opportunity to observe carefully was one loaned to Professor Mark by Mr. 

 L. Mowbray of St. George's. 



ANTENNARIIDAE. 

 Pterophryne gibba (Mitchill). Mouse fish. 

 Distribution. — West Indies generally. 

 D. 3 + 12; A. 7. 



Very common in the Sargassum. I have about sixty specimens, a few of 

 which were taken from the dredge off Ireland Idand. 



