300 Annals of the Carneige Museum. 



monocanthid/e. 



52. Alutera punctata Agassiz. C. M. Cat. No. 1241. 



53. Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchell). C. M. Cat. No. 1242. 



TETRADONTID/E. 



54. Spheroides asterias sp. nov. Plate XII, Fig. 2. 



Type 28 mm. (Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes, No. 1475.) 

 St. Croix. 



Cotypes, 2 specimens, 18 and 21 mm. (I. U. Cat. No. 11924.) 



D. 10; A. 9 ; P. 14; head 2.3 (3.1 in the total length) ; snout 2 

 in the head; eye 3; interorbital 2.6. Head large; profile of the 

 snout concave. Nostrils nearer the eye than to the tip of the snout; 

 mouth very small ; opercular cleft very short, almost vertical. Entire 

 body, except the snout and the caudal peduncle, covered with prickles. 

 Dorsal rather high, 2.6 in head, its origin slightly in front of anal. 

 Sides of the head and upper parts of the body with small round black- 

 ish dots, which form more or less longitudinal rows or streaks. Belly 

 paler than upper parts, with spots less distinct, these not seen in 

 some specimens ; dark streaks radiating from eye like the rays of an 

 aster ; pectoral dusky, with a dark bar at the base. Caudal margin 

 black, inner rays pale ; a dark median ventral line. 



This species closely resembles Spheroides testudineus. It differs in 

 having a larger eye and the margins of the caudal black. 



Malacanthid^:. 



55. Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch). C. M. Cat. No. 12 15. 



GOBIID/E. 



56. Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin). C. M. Cat. No. 1245. 



57. Gobius lyricus Girard. C. M. Cat. No. 1246. 



GOBIESOCimE. 



58. Gobiesox cephalus Lacepede. Georgetown Market. C. M. 

 Cat. No. 147 1. 



