in head; eye 6 2/3; maxillary 3 4/5; interorbital 5 1/2; 
head width 2 2/5. Snout conic, width 1 1/4 its length. 
Rakers 6-+12, short points, 4 in filaments, latter 1 1/3 
in eye. Scales with 50 to 54 basal radiating striae, 55 to 42 
apical, median connecting reticulations rather imperfect; tubes 
in leteral line simple to 5-branched., Color in alcohol faded 
dark dusky-olive, little paler or more olive below, Traces 
of 3 eviontiy paler brownish horizontal bars on opercle, upper- 
most level with lower eye édge and median, opposite rictus, 
Length 184 mm, Rio Janeiro. 
We have compared slightly smaller examples in the Academy 
from St. Lucia and Trinidad, West Indies. No trace of the 
dark blotch behind the eye and dark bar at pectoral basally 
now in the Rio Janeiro example, West Indien examples show 
43 basal striae on scales, and 29 apical, We follow Gilbert 
in uniting Iridio kirsehii Jordan and Evermann as a synonym 
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