1888.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 549 t T^T OF FISHES COLLECTED AT GREEN TURTLE CAY, IN THE BAHAMAS, BY CHARLES L. EDWARDS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES. BY DAVID STARR JORDAN AND CHARLES HARVEY BOLLMAN. In the summer of 1888 a small collection of fishes was made at Green Turtle Cay, one of the Bahama Islands, by Mr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, a worker in the Johns Hopkins biological laboratory. In the present paper we have given a list of these species with de-scriptions of the three which appear to be new to science. The types of the Tew species are in the IT. S. National Museum, the others in the museum of the University of Indiana. 1. Echidna catenata (Block). 2. G-ymnotkorax moringa (Cuvier). Stilbiscus. gen. no v. (Congridw). _ ntamosw.-Approaching Neomnger Girard, from which it can be sep-arfteT ho following characters: Dorsal and anal fins bCR.nn.ng Ire than a head's length behind vent and only developed for a <b» appear near end of tail. Tail twice as short as bodj ; teeth unisenal. Type-SHlMscus edwarin Jordan & Boltaan. JWW»tio» — Body very elongate, slender, terete, lui Blig ht,y oblique, ^^^*^%££Li and length anal fins beginning behind vent at a distance «v>. „f pectoral; developed for abon ^' ^ * X end of ML noovino' to re-armear about a halt neau s itu & tu S»ls devlped, their length slightly longer than snout. 3. Stilbiscus edwardsi, sp. nov. length I> es mptoa.-Head 7 4 in trunk, 4J in tad; -^» W 8 J£ somewhat greater than distance between gdhopen m^, .. ^ 1 4 in interorbital space. Cleft •'-"^S^SSSSg I* h. snoat eye; upper jaw S in head, lower 4J Heig htoi ^ Dorsal and anal beginning If length of he f „" ™ de Uopeu part oped part about equal to length of head ami P : ^ ' ,,„„.,. at end of tail contained If times in head I «; t0 ot , trfgh, half of head and body above lateral fine bro« n , h>» 1
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