Putnam.] 346 [March 18, 



a central group of four large teeth. The general color is greyish 

 with distinct darker cross bars, and a silvery band of spots along the 

 sides of the abdomen. 



This fish is of a darker color, with distinct bars, and with larger 

 teeth, than F. dubius, and with a more anterior position of the anus • 

 1 specimen, r From a starfish collected at the Kingsmills Islands' 



3 inches < South Pacific, by Andrew Garrett. Agassiz Collec- 

 long. ytion. No. 4335. 



ECHIODON. 



Echiodon dentatus. 



Fierasfer dentatus Cuv. Kegne Anim. 



Echiodon Drummondii Thomp. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 55. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc, n, p. 207, pi. 38. 



Though the genus Echiodon was established by Thompson without 

 the knowledge that the fish he founded it upon was the same as 

 Cuvier's Fierasfer dentatus, I think the generic name should be 

 adopted for this species, as the presence of a distinct caudal fin, and 

 the peculiar dentition are characters of more than specific value. 



I have been unable to find the least indication of a caudal fin in 

 Fierasfer dubius after careful microscopical examination, all the 

 specimens showing the tail without caudal rays, and with the last 

 dorsal and anal rays projecting beyond its fleshy end. 



ENCHELIOPHIS. 



In the year 1865 Dr. E. Haeckel sent to Professor Agassiz a very 

 interesting collection of Mediterranean fishes. These specimens 

 were all named except the single example which is the subject of 

 these remarks, and though I can scarcely believe it possible that so 

 distinct a form can have escaped the notice of all the many writers 

 on the fishes of the Mediterranean, yet I must confess my inability 

 to find any description that applies to it in the works at my disposal, 

 and, in order to call attention to the form, I have ventured to place it 

 in the genus proposed by Miiller for the reception of a fish that may 

 be characterized as Fierasfer without pectoral fins. 



Of course there is a possibility of the fish now under consideration 

 being well known to Mediterranean ichthyologists as the young of 

 some one of the many species found there, though from the general 

 character of the specimen I believe it to be a perfect, though perhaps 

 not an adult, form. 



