3102 
Bulletin / 7 , United States National Museum 
upper jaw, fewer on sides; in lower jaw less numerous in front, a long 
single row of somewhat stronger teeth on sides; eye not large; a small 
nasal dap, and a 3- or 4-branched tentacle over eye and one at nape; scales 
rather large and regularly arranged; dorsal fin with a notch behind third 
spine, and with one unbranched soft ray at its end, the membrane joined 
to caudal: origin of anal under eleventh dorsal s[)ine; lateral line as tisual 
in Anchenoplents. 
Color in spirits: Everywhere a nearly unifonu faded jiink, save breast 
and lower side <)f head, which are jialer; a small, inconspicuous dark round 
spot on dorsal tin, at twenty-third and twenty-fourth spines, a little 
nearer Ijase than margin, and made up of very small black punctulations; 
indications of a yellow tinge on front of dorsal and base of anal in life; 
fins otherwise all pale. 
Puert() Kico; known only from the type, a si)ecimen 1.3 inches long, 
obtained by the United States Fish Commission exj)edition to Puerto Kico 
.January 37, 1899. {ruhescens. reddening.) 
Auchenopterug rubegeens, Evermasx & iI.\RSH, Itept. P. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899;, 
3(30, Puerto Real, P. R. (Type, Xo. 49374, P.S.X.M. Coll. Evtnnauu &. ^larsli.) 
•2717 (c). Al t HEMIPTEKI S < IXOI LATI S, E verniaiin Sc Marsli. 
Head 3; depth 4.4; eye 5; snout 4.2; maxillary 2.2; interorbital 6; scales 
2-29-7; 1>. IV-XXn', the longest spines 3 in head; A. II, 16, the longest 
ray 2.25 in head ; pectoral 1.3; ventral 1.8; caudal l.G. 15ody rather long 
and slender, strongly compressed; head large, little compressed; snout 
moderately sharp ; mouth large, maxillarj' reaching posterior border of eye, 
the lips heavy, the jaws subequal or the lower very slightly projecting; 
teeth conical and sharp, in more than one row in each jaw, most numerous 
in front; a patch on vomer; a nasal filament, a 3- or 4-branched suj)raoc- 
ular tentacle, and a 4-branched nuchal tentacle, the branches of the latter 
each with a dark dot on their anterior surface. Dor.sal originating over 
edge of preopercle, of spines only, the second slightlj”^ longer than first; 
second, third, and fourth graduated, the fourth comj)aratively short, thus 
forming a notch partly separating the first 4 spines from rest of fin; 
dorsal membrane joined low with caudal; anal free from caudal, about as 
high as dorsal, its thirteenth and fourteenth rays longest; first anal spine 
under tenth or eleventh dorsal spine; caudal rounded, shorter than head, 
of about 13 rays; pectoral large, reai hing anal, of 12 rays; ventrals 
moderate, of 2 rays, the spine not evident. Lateral line running high to 
eleventh dorsal spine, here abruptly decurved two rows of scales, thence 
median to base of caudal. 
Color in spirits; IJody and head jtale yellow; body with 4 heavy dark- 
brown vertical bars, each about 4 rows of scales wide, extending on the 
vertical fins; membrane of anterior dorsal si)ines, opercle, occipital, and 
scapular region blotched with the same color; a dark bar backward and 
downward from eye acm.ss cheek, rather more than one-half width of eye; 
top of head between and behind eyes darkened; i>reorbital, maxillary, 
lips, and under part of head thickly punctulate with dark; dorsal and 
anal barn d with the extensions of the wide dark body bars, and with the 
