Contrilmtions to the Fauna of the Bahamas 



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specimen 



len^tiî ïn 

 mm. 



l'Hys in 



UOISlii Uli 



raj^s in anal 



fin 



lin 



a 



140 



XV1II,12 



11,19 



b 



45 



xix,u 



11,19 



c 



50 



XIX.ll 



11,19 



d 



29 



XIX,]2 



11.19 



e 



43 



XX,ll 



11,19 



f 



40 



XX,ll 



11,20 



g 



50 



XXI.ll 



11,20 



h 



35 



XXI,11 



11,20 



i 



45 



XXI,12 



n,22 



Mal acoctenus moorei, Everm. & Marsh. 



Colected at Hog Island and at Mastic Point on Andros. Powells Point and 

 Clarence Harbour {Exped. Geogr. Soc). 



In some specimens there are a few very small teeth behind the antorior ones 

 in the jaws. 



Malacoctenus himacuJatus, Steindachner. 



Very common at Mastic Point along the beach. Not before recorded from the 

 Bahamas. 



Seems to differ from M. ponrtoricensis by the absence of a supraocular tentacle. 



Malacoctenus varius (Poey). 

 Nassau {Albatross Exped. 1886). 



Malacoctenus ocellatus (Steindachner). 

 Bahamas. No other locality given. 



Malacoctenus higuttatus (Cope). 

 Described from a specimen taken hj Woon along New Providence. 



Malacoctenus culebrce, Evekm & Marsh. 



I collected a specimen at Mastic on Andros, which seeuas to belong to this 

 species, described from Porto Rico. It differs from the description in having a band 

 of small teeth behind the larger ones in the upper jaw. In the lower jaw I have 

 found only one row of teeth. As to the teeth being arranged in a band or only 

 in one row in the jaws, which should distinguish the two genera Lahrisomus and 

 Malacoctenus from each other, I doubt the possibility of maintaining this difference. 

 As mentioned above I have also found some small teeth behind the larger ones 

 in M. moorci. The absence of an ocular filament in the single specimen is not a 

 difference to which any importance can be attached. D XX, 8. Length 2 cm. 



Malacoctenus luguhris (Poet)? Fig. 6. 



Poey has under this name described a species from Cuba, later on obtained 

 by the steamer Albatross at Nassau (1886). I have not seen his own description 



