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Hepatus crestonis .f<>rdan and Starks. 



Head 3f; depth If; D. IX, 25; A. Ill, 24; snout l l , in head; i 

 4; interorbital 2|; pectoral l^j. In alcohol largely uniform dark 

 chocolate-brown. Dorsals and anals blackish. Caudal slightly 

 paler basally. Pectoral with broad whitish submarginal shade. 



Length 103 nun. 



Chaetodon humeralis (Gunther). 



One example, 124 mm. Jordan and Evermann state "3 dark 

 hands across caudal peduncle at base of fin; caudal fin with a faint 

 band; ventrals dark." My example shows but a single dark trans- 

 verse bar on caudal peduncle at caudal base and caudal fin with two 

 very sharply contrasted blackish vertical bars slightly expanded me- 

 dianly, and anterior much wider than any of bars on caudal. The 

 ventrals are whitish with two very indistinct vertical gray bars. 



Pomacanthus zonipectus (Gill). 



Head 3|; depth If; D. XI, 25; A. Ill, 21; snout 3 in head; eye 

 S\ ; interorbital 3. Color faded in alcohol, vertical pale lines whitish. 

 Traces of similarly curved lines, parallel, some irregular in dark 

 .areas between whitish lines. Also dark areas with numerous small 

 obscure blackish spots. Length 125 mm. 



Chastodipterus zonatus (Girard). 

 One example, 148 mm. 



Balistes vetula Linn6. 



Two, 100 and 103 mm. long. 



Spheroides annulatus (Jenyns). 



Two, 49 and 94 mm. long. The dark spots are smaller and more 

 numerous than in Atlantic examples of S. testudineus of the same size. 



Diodon hystrix Linne. 



Two examples, 122 to 125 mm. 



Scorpaena mystes Jordan and Starts. 



Head 2|; depth 3^; D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 5; scales 39 to caudal 

 base and 2 more on latter, along lateral line; 7 scales above 1.1.; 

 15 scales in vertical series between 1.1. and spinous dorsal origin: 

 snout 3f in head; eye 5; maxillary 2\; interorbital 5 ; about 27 pores 

 in lateral line to caudal base. No supraorbital cirrus. Slight pit 

 below front eye edge and suborbital stay. Length 250 mm. 



-Mapo soporator (Valenciennes). 



Twenty-nine examples, 25 to 122 mm. 



28 ' 



