Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 3189 
Page 2358. After Malacoctenus bimaculatiis (Steindacliner), insert: 
2697 (b). MALACOCTEXUS PUERTORICENSIS, Evermann & Marsh. 
Head 3.4; depth 3.4; eye 4; snout 3.5; maxillary 3.4; mandible 2.6; in- 
terorbital 7; jireorbital 8; scales 4-44-8. D. xx, 10; A. ii, 19; P. 14; Y. 
2; C. 13. 
Body short, stout, compressed; head rather long, snout long and 
pointed; mouth small, little oblique, the maxillary scarcely reaching 
front of orbit; teeth in a single row in each jaw; gill-membranes broadly 
united, free from the isthmus; eyes high up, interorbital narrow; caudal 
peduncle short, compressed, its least depth about 3 in head. Fins rather 
large; origin of dorsal over upper end of gill-opening, first spine slightly 
shorter than secoud, which is somewhat longer than the third, whose 
length is about 2.2 in head; no notch behind third and fourth spines, all 
the spines from third to fifteenth being about equal in length, the sixteenth 
and seventeenth being somewhat shorter, the remaining three progres- 
sively longer; soft dorsal higher, its longest ray about 1.7 in head; long- 
est anal ray 1.7; pectoral broad, 1.25 in head, reaching anal; ventral 
barely reaching origin of anal ; a pair of slender ocular cirri, a small su- 
praocular one, a short, slender, nasal cirrus and a few very slender ones 
at the nape; scales large, not crowded anteriorly; lateral line well arched 
above the pectoral. 
Color in alcohol: Brown, much spotted and vermiculated with darker; 
top of head brown, sides and under parts pale, crossed by about 5 broad, 
irregular brown bars; side of body with about 5 or 6 broad, dark cross- 
bars, broader than the paler interspaces, broadest and darkest above and 
extending upon dorsal fin; under parts of body paler, more speckled; 
spinous dorsal with numerous .small brown specks, a large, black ocellus 
on base of 3 anterior spines, and a larger one on base of last 4 dorsal 
spines, being chiefly on body; soft dorsal, caudal, and anal each crossed 
by several series of small brown spots; pectoral and veutrals pale, the 
pectoral with a few brown spots at base. 
The above description from the type, a female, 2.5 inches long, obtained 
at Hucares, February 14. Three female cotypes gotten at Fajardo, Feb- 
ruary 17, and one at Culebra, February 9, agree closely with the type; 2 
of these, however, show faint traces of narrow horizontal lines along 
lower part of side. 
A male, 2.5 inches long, from Culebra, February 11, taken as one of the 
cotypes, may be described as follows : Head 3.5; depth 3.7; eye3.8; snout 
3.2; maxillary 3.1; mandible 2.4; iuterorbital 7; preorbital 6.2; scales 
3-45-9; D. xx, 10; A. ii, 19; P. 14; V. 2; C. 13; longest dorsal spine 2 in 
head, longest ray 1.4 ; longest anal ray 1.5; pectoral 1; ventral 1.1; caudal 
1.1. Color in alcohol, tolerably uniform brown ; crossbars on side A'ery 
faint; longitudinal lines more evident than in the female; throat and 
under ])arts of head mottled with white and light brown; lius loss 
speckled than in female, the soft dorsal and anal pale, almost without 
spots. 
Another male, 2.25 inches long, from Culebra, February 11, agrees with 
