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249. Aspidontus brunneolus Jenkins, new species. 
Head 4.3 in length; depth 5; eye 3 in head; snout 5; D. 31; A. 19; P. 14; C. 13; V. 2. Body 
somewhat elongate, deepest at anterior end, compressed, widest anteriorly; head compressed but 
slightly wider than body; profile from snout to top of head about a fourth of a circle, from this point 
gently rising to about middle of dorsal; profile of chin and breast convex; belly slightly bulging; 
from vent both dorsal and ventral outlines gradually converge to caudal peduncle; depth of caudal 
peduncle about 3 in depth of body; beginning slightly in front of pectoral, dorsal fin highest at about 
twenty-third ray, length 5 in body, 1.8 in head; last ray united by membrane along its whole length 
to caudal fin; caudal rounded, 1.2 in head; anal fin lower than the dorsal, middle rays the longest, 
about 2 in head, the last ray joined to caudal by a membrane its whole length; pectoral somewhat 
pointed, middle rays longest, 1.3 in head; ventrals about equal to depth of body, outer ray the longer, 
falling considerably short of the vent, about half its length; teeth rather long, close set, in a single 
series in each jaw; a backwardly curved canine tooth in the side of each jaw, the lower the larger; 
entire head and body scaleless; skin with numerous small warty elevations. 
Color in alcohol, dark brown, fins blackish; in life uniformly black. 
This description is based on the type, No. 50718, U. S. N. M., 1.25 inches long, and 18 cotypes, 
collected by me from the coral rocks at Honolulu. 
Fig. 50 . — Aspidontus bru-nneolus Jenkins, new species. Type. 
Family LVI. BR0TULID7E. 
250. Brotula marginalis Jenkins. 
One example, the type, is in Dr. Wood’s collection of 1898. 
Brotula marginalis Jenkins. Bull. U. S. F. C. 1899 (.Tune 8, 1901), 403, fig, 16, Honolulu. (Type, No. 49694, U. S. N. M.) 
Family LVI1. PLFUROXHCTID.-F. 
251. Platophrys pantherinus (Riippell). 
Color in life of a small example (field No. 130), on the eyed side general color light, covered 
with numerous whitish and brownish patches, the centers of most of which contain small dots, the 
coloring giving the appearance of a stone covered with minute lichens; the eyeless side white. 
Larger specimens show the same markings, the spots being larger, and there is in the greater number 
a large brown spot on the lateral line two-thirds of the way back. 
Twelve examples of this species, from 6 to 4 inches in length, were obtained. 
Rhombus pantherinus Riippell, Atl. Reis. Nordl. Af. Fish., 121, pi. 31, fig. 1, 1828, Red Sea. 
Rhombodichthys pantherinus, Streets, Bull, U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 57, 1877 (Honolulu); Gunther, Rept. Shore Fishes, 
Challenger, Zool., part Vi, 61, 1880 (Honolulu). 
Platophrys pantherinus, Steindaehner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, ixx, 1900, 511 (Honolulu). 
