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one and two-thirds times as long as the dorsal rays. The general color in spirits is ! 
light gray. ? 
11. Platophrys lunatus (L.). ji 
One specimen, catalogue No. 37074, is 105 millimeters long; it was seined Janu- 
ary 29. D. 93; A. 76; tubes in lateral line, 82; scales 93. Many of the blue spots i 
are larger than the eye. Three dark blotches along the lateral line, the middle one ^ 
darkest, the third almost obsolete. 
12. Gobius soporator C. & V. 
Seven examides were caught with a dip-net in tide-pools; their agility both in and ii 
out of water is astonishing. We had great difficulty in keeping this species unless 
we killed the fish at once in alcohol. 
13. Scorpaena plumieri Bloch. 
One young example, catalogue No. 37103, was seined January 27. D. XI, I, 10; 
A. Ill, 5; tubes in 1. lat. 26. 
14. Scarus cuzamilas, new species. (PI. 21), fig. 4.) 
The type of the present species, catalogue No. 37128, was taken in a gill-net at 
Cozumel, on the 28th of January, 1885. It is 330 millimeters long to the end of the ! 
middle caudal rays; 294 to the end of the lateral line. 
The species is evidently related to Scarus superbus and Scarus acutus of Poey. I 
have compared it with a specimen of Scarus superbus which was sent to the National 
Museum by Professor Poey. In this species the external caudal rays are produced 
more than twice as much as in the species about to be described. The coloration, 
also, is very different, the under surface of the head of my species being uniform i 
whitish. Scarus acutus is said to have a broad, whitish band from the base of the 
pectoral to the caudal. The snout of acutus has fwo deep blue bands and there are 
two bauds of carmine on the chin. Poey makes no reference to lateral canines in the ; 
upper jaw. The coloration and dentition of the Cozumel species are so different from 
Poey’s description that I can not identify the species with S. acutus. 
The body is somewhat fusiform in shape. The jaws are whitish at the margin 
and olivaceous over the rest of their surface. There are three canines directed out- 
ward and slightly backward on the lower posterior edge of the upper jaw. The upper 
lip covers rather less -than one-half of the surface of the upper jaw. The snout is 
attenuated. There is a considerable depression above the nostrils. The distance 
from tip of the upper jaw to the iris, measured obliquely, equals one-third of the 
length of the entire dorsal base and nearly one-half the length of the head. The 
length of the eye is contained seven and one-half times in the total length of the 
head; it is situated rather less than one of its diameters from the upper profile of the 
head and nearly three of its diameters from the lower profile. There are four rows of 
scales on the cheeks besides a row of scales upon the suboperculum and interopercu- 
lum. The lower series on the cheek coutaius five scales and the other series contain 
from six to seven. There are seven series of scales on the median line of the back 
before the dorsal. 
The greatest height of the body is contained about three and one third times in 
the length to end of scales ; it is not equal to the length of the head. The least height 
of the tail equals the length of the postorbital part of the head, and is not quite one- 
