Rakers about 7? short rudimentary feeble points, greatly less 
than filaments, which 1 2/3 in eye, No lateral line, Dorsal 
elevatedin front, first spine ending filament and long as head, 
Coler in alcohol dull russet, with 8 ebscure deeper cross-bars, 
Spinous dorsal blackish in front, filament whitish. Anal edge 
dusky and dark bletch on each ventral. Dark svenewesis bar at 
vaudal base, Length 34 or 35 mm, Rio Janeire. Two examples. 
The original account~”© is based on an example 90 mm. , 
apparently differing only as a change with age. E. pandionis 
Evermann and Marsh is doubtless based on a young example, as 
it is but 58 mm, long, so that the comparisons gtvem by these 
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guthors in their key are not satisfactory, Their figure 
shows longer ventrals than either of our specimens, E. atlantic 
is not previously known from Brazil, 
296 
Jordan and Evermann, Bull.U.S,Nat “ih i ce li 3,1898, 
p.<402, Pensacola Piewias. 
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Bull,U.S.Fish Com,,vel..20,part 1,1900(1902),p,318, fig,104, 
eff Perto Rice, 
Cirripectes sebae (Valenciennes). 
Head 3 2/3 to 3 3/4; depth 4 te 4 1/3; D.XI, 15; A.II, 15; 
snout 3 to 3 1/3 in head; eye 3 1/5 to 3 3/4; maxillary 1 4/5 
to 2; head width 1 7/8 to 2; intererbital 1 3/4 to 3 in eye, 
Snout length 3/5 to 3/4 its width. Maxillary little beyond eye, 
