Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 3193 
alternating narrower pale interspaces ; caudal mottled or irregularly barred 
with grayish, its base with the jilaiu pale-yellow ground color, which is 
sharply separated from the rest of the iiu by a curved dark line; posterior 
half of pectoral barred with dark formed of dots on the rays, the first bar 
jdainest; basal half of pectoral pale; ventral with basal portion dark, 
the rest barred like pectoral. 
A pretty and strongly marked blenny, known only from Puerto Eico, 
where 4 specimens were obtained on the coral reefs at Ponce and 1 at 
Puerto Eeal by the U. S. Fish Commission expedition to Puerto Eico. 
(cingitlatiis, banded, from the conspicuous vertical bars.) 
Auehcnopterus cingulatus, Evermanx 6c Marsh, Kept. U. S. Eish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 
361, Ponce, P. R. (Type, No. 49375, IT. S.E.M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 
2717 (d). AUCHEXOPTERCS FA.IAEDO, Evermann Sc Marsh. 
Head 3.25; depth 4.8; ej’e4.2; snout 4.8; maxillary 1.7 ; mandible 1.5; 
interorbital 5.5; scales 2-37-8; B. XXIX, 1, the longest spine 2.3 in head; 
A. II, 17; pectoral 1.4; ventral 1.7 ; caudal 1.4. Body elongate, strongly 
compressed posteriorly; head moderate, little compressed; mouth large, 
the long and slender maxillary reaching beyond the posterior border of 
orbit; jaws subequal; teeth of upper jaw conical and sharp, in a patch in 
front, becoming one row posteriorly; teeth in lower jaw similar, but fewer 
and weaker; vomerine teeth in two series. Nasal, ocular, and nuchal 
tentacles present, all but the nasal about 5-branched. Dorsal origin over 
edge of preopercle, the first 4 spines graduated, the foxirth shortest, thus 
forming a notch; dorsal ending with an unbranched soft ray, the joints 
visible under a strong lens; membrane of dorsal joined low to caudal; 
anal origin iinder eleventh dorsal spine and the decurved portion of lateral 
line; pectoral reaching past front of anal; ventral moderate, of 3 rays, 
the innermost shorter and slenderer. 
Color in spirits : Body and head light reddish, becoming a little paler 
posteriorly; body with traces of 6 or 8 dark vertical bars extending on 
the fins, their margins ill defined; breast pale, 2 dark reddish bars down- 
ward and backward from eye across upper and lower edge of check to 
opercle; maxillary blotched with dark; upper lip and tips of both jaws 
dark; lower part of head spotted with dark; a row of about 5 small dark 
spots on edge of preopercle ; iris pink ; dorsal and anal fins gray, excejit for 
the extensions of the dark bars of the body and a few white spots on tne 
dorsal; a distinct ocellus on the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty- 
fourth dorsal spines and their membranes; base of caudal gray, like the 
ground color of dorsal and anal; posterior part of caudal with gray mot- 
tlings on the rays only, this portion separated from the basal part bj* a 
space without pigment on rays or membriine, making a distinct vertical 
h.ar; jiectoral and ventrals mottled. Puerto Eico. 
A ii«. dsomely colored blenny, known only from the type, 1.C3 inches 
long, collbv.^ed February 17, 1899, by the the U. S. Fish Commission expe- 
dition to I’uerto Eico. (Named for the typo locality.) 
Auehcnopterus fajardo, Evermanx Sc. ^Iarsu, Tlepl.U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 
361, Fajardo, P. R. (Type, No. 49376, U.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann &. Marsli.) 
