Bucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker). 
Head 3 1/5; depth Sta, tee Ov is AS Tit, ty: 23 SeaLeq 
(pockets) about 40 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 more 
on latter; 4 scalesabove lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 
8 below to spinous anal origin; 18 predorsal scales; snout 
6 in head; eye 2 7/8; maxillary 2 7/8; interorbital 3 1/6; third 
enal spine 3 1/3; second anal spine 33; lower caudal ldbe 1 1/3; 
rakers 54+8 short points. In alcohol back gray-brown where 
scales have fallen, side and below silvery-white. -+ris pale 
brown. Spinous dorsal brownish, whitish medially and end 
black, obsolete horizontal band below whitish area composed 
of minute brownish points; other fins all dull brown, Length 
173 mm, Cape Verde Islands, 
This species does not previously appear to have been re- 
corded from the Cape Verde Islands. +t agrees with the Ashantee 
material recorded by Fowler, 
E. barengulus Goode and ‘Beam is epparently synonymous, 
as a comparison with a series of Bermuda examples in the 
Academy show, The latter, however, do not exhibit any traces 
of the horizontal dark bar, Ina smaller example from Santo 
Domingo, in the Academy, it is very distinct, and this imdi- 
vidual agrees in every way with the Cape Verde material. 
The Bermeda specimens show a heavier and longer second anal 
spine, 2¢ to 29/10 in head. In the Cape Verde example the 
scales have 7 radiating striae. 
