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edge of suborbital; no dermal flaps on scales; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 
anterior nostril tubular, with a rather broad fringed flap; distance between anterior nostril and eye 
greater than interorbital width; distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal twice length of maxillary; 
first dorsal spine 1.6 in second; fourth dorsal spine about 3.5 in head, penultimate spine 5 in head, 
last about 4, or about twice length of first spine; longest dorsal ray 2 in head; first anal spine very 
short, about 7.5 in head, second about 3 times length of first, 2.6 in head; third somewhat shorter 
and much weaker than second; pectoral base not so broad as in P, macrolepis, 3.75 in head, rays all 
simple, reaching origin of anal, 1.6 in head; ventrals shorter, their tips scarcely reaching vent, 1.6 in 
head; caudal 1.7. 
Color in life: Back and top and sides of head pale-rosy, with irregular brownish markings; lower 
parts of head richer rosy; belly white, with some rosy; dorsal pale-rosy, with a series of large irregular 
brownish spots along outer border; soft dorsal with brownish spot; caudal pale-rosy, upper half with 
brown spots, lower half plain ; anal rosy, dark at tip ; pectoral and ventral rosy, blackish on outer portion. 
This species resembles P. macrolepis, from which it differs in the much smaller eye, longer snout, 
fewer and smaller cephalic cirri, somewhat smoother head, narrower pectoral, and the very different 
coloration. The only example obtained is the type (No. 49534, U. S. N. M. ), 5.5 inches long, taken 
in the beam trawl January 13, 1899, at Fish Hawk Station 6050, 1.25 miles northward from the entrance 
to San Juan Harbor, in 91 fathoms. 
This interesting species is named in honor of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, director of forestry and 
fisheries of the United States Commission at the Paris Exposition of 1900, and his brother, Mr. 
Barton A. Bean, acting curator of fishes in the U. S. National Museum, in recognition of their valuable 
services to American ichthyology. 
237. Pontinus macrolepis Goode & Bean. 
(Plate 43.) 
Head 2.2; depth 3.25; eye 3.4; snout 4.5; maxillary 2.4; mandible 2.2; interorbital 10; preorbital 
9; scales 6-35-10, about 22 pores; D. xn, 10; A. in, 5; P. 17. Body short; head large, its width half 
its length; snout short and broad; profile not much arched; occiput not depressed; interorbital groove 
deep, a slight ridge on each side at base of supraocular ridge; no pit under anterior part of eye; 
spines of head strong; a pair of moderate nasal spines, 1 at anterior end of supraocular ridge and 2 
stronger ones near its posterior end; postocular, tympanic, nuchal, and parietal spines strong; 1 paroc- 
cipital and 2 humeral spines present; 2 flat, stout, opercular spines, and 4 on preopercle, upper one 
strongest and with an accessory spine on its base; suborbital stay prominent, with 3 strong spines; 
2 strong spines on preorbital, each directed backward; scales strongly ctenoid, rubbing off easily; 
nape, opercles, and cheek scaled, rest of head naked; breast with small embedded scales; cephalic 
tentacles moderate, a short, broad nasal pair; a slender one at preocular spine, and a longer one, about 
2 in eye, at supraocular spine; another small pair on nape and 2 small filaments on preorbital; distance 
from tip of snout to origin of dorsal twice length of maxillary; first dorsal spine about three-fifths of 
second, third longest, 2.4 in head; longest dorsal rays 2.5 in head; eleventh spine about 4.5 in head; 
twelfth 3.75; longest dorsal ray 2.5; first anal spine about 3 in second, which is 2.6 in head and longer 
and stronger than third; longest anal ray about 2.4; pectoral rays all simple, scarcely reaching anal, 1.5 
in head; ventral shorter, 2 in head; caudal 2.1. 
Color in life: Pale below, reddish above; body with about 6 vertical bars of deeper red reaching 
to lateral line or below; head chiefly red, iris gray, upper and lower edges red, pupil black; dorsal 
with 2 long rows of light-red blotches; pectoral with 3 V-shaped, vertical, light-red bars; bases of 
ventral and pectorai reddish; caudal with 3 curved, vertical, yellowish bars; a series of oblong reddish 
spots on caudal membrane at margin. 
Hitherto known only from the type, a specimen 4.4 inches long, from off Yucatan. Our collec- 
tion contains a single specimen 5.5 inches long, dredged by the Fish Hawk at station 6068, in 224 to 
237 fathoms, in Mayaguez Harbor, 7.5 miles northwest from the Mayaguez custom-house. 
Pontinus macrolepis Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 257, fig. 247, 1896, lat. 20° 59' 30" N., long. 86° 23' 45" W., at 
Albatross station 2354, off Yucatan, in 130 fathoms; Jordan & Evermann, 1. c., 1856, 1898. 
