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belongs to it. Brosmopliycis is also closely related, differing in the presence of cirri on the lower jaw 
and the absence of developed scales on the side of the head. 
Named for J. Douglas Ogilhy, the accomplished naturalist of the Museum of Sidney, in recog- 
nition of his excellent work on the fishes of Australia. 
12. Ogilbia cayorum, new species. (PI. 9, fig. 14.) 
Type, No. 48792, U. S. N. M., a young individual inches long. Type locality, Key West, Florida, 
October 23, 1896. Collectors, Evermann and Kendall. 
Head 4; depth 4£; eye 8J in head; snout 4; D. about 68; A. about 50; scales about 14-87-13; 
maxillary If; pectoral 1 j ; ventral If; caudal 2J. Body moderately elongate, compressed; head 
moderate, snout blunt; mouth large; jaws subequal, maxillary extending beyond vertical of eye a 
distance nearly equal to length of snout; eye very small, high up, situated in anterior third of head; 
nostril small, close to eye. Teeth small, in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Back elevated, 
strongly arched from snout to origin of dorsal fin, thence descending in a nearly straight line to base 
of caudal; ventral outline comparatively straight, slightly concave at front of anal. Dorsal and anal 
long and low, distinct from caudal, the posterior rays longest, about 3f in head, base of each scaled ; 
distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal about 3 in length of body ; origin of anal under about 
22d dorsal ray, equidistant between tip of snout and base of caudal. Scales very small, embedded, but 
showing distinctly under a lens; cheek and opercles partially covered with minute, embedded scales; 
top of head naked; opercle with a large, flat, flexible spine on level with eye. No barbels, cilia, nor 
tubercles; 2 large mucous pores at symphysis of lower jaw, 2 on preorbital near anterior edge on 
each side, and a row of 5 or 6 pores ou lower jaw and edge of preopercle. 
Color, uniform pale olivaceous or light brown, finely punctate with minute brown specks. 
A single example of this species was seined on a shoal covered with algse, at Key West. 
Etymology, cayorum, of the keys, from Cayo Hueso, Bone Key, the original name of the island of 
Key West. 
