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Back and upper surfaces pale brown, with 7 slightly darker 
transverse bands made up chiefly of blackish dots and extending 
below lateral line on side of body. Each Interspace with less 
distinct similar band transversely on back and blotch on and 
below lateral line. Iris whitish. Pale heart shaped blotch 
on cranium close behind interorbital. Fins pale, caudal dark 
grayish terminally. 
Caribbean Sea, Bahamas. Poey has evidently listed this 
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species as Saurlda , though apparently never given any specific 
name. The interesting specimen from Porto Rico seems to have 
escaped the attention of Evermann and Marsh in their work on 
that island. Although I have no examples of similar size I can- 
not but think Saurida s uspicio only a variant of younger growth. 
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Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 4, 1875, p. 145. 
