86 THE SHORE FISHES. 



One specimen 2n inches long from Station 4710, Lat. 9°, 30' S.; Long. 

 95°, 83' W. 



Back and top of head hght brown, thickly punctulated with darker; lower 

 part of head and body silvery ; pectoral dusky with a broad pale terminal margin 

 and with a trace of a pale bar extending partly across fin, occupying the second 

 4th of fin reckoning from its base ; trace of dusky transverse bar on body under 

 posterior part of dorsal and extending somewhat on dorsal and anal fins; a 

 dusky area at base of caudal fin. 



Another specimen ij inches long from Station 4720, Lat. 7°, 13' S.; Long. 

 102°, 31.5 W. 



Top of head and back to slightly beyond origin of dorsal purplish brown; 

 lower parts pale, somewhat punctulate with darker; dusky area of back just 

 back of pectoral fin extending as a broad faint bar nearly to ventral ; a broad 

 dark brown vertical bar on body under posterior part of dorsal extending some- 

 what on dorsal and on anal fins ; in front of this a pale bar of about same width 

 separating it from the body color anteriorly, and behind the dark bar another 

 pale bar separating it from the dark area at base of caudal ; ventrals pale; dorsal 

 and anal pale, except from the extension of the dai'k bar; caudal pale; pectoral 

 pale with a broad black triangular area covering about half of anterior margin 

 of fin, apex of triangle on membrane between 6th and 7th ray; tips of all the 

 rays pale, the membrane between the first and second rays punctulated with 

 dark. 



Two specimens, I and l| inches long, from Station 4718, Lat. 5°, 32.4 S.; 

 Long. 99°, 32.2 W. 



These specimens are similar in color to the last, as are also two specimens I 

 and 1 inches long from Station 4729, Lat. 7°, 15' N.; Long. 82°, 8' W. 



Two specimens l| and 25 inches long from Station 4640, Lat. 0°, 39.4 N.; 

 Long. 88°, 11' W. The smaller specimen has a long black barbel; ventral 

 nearly all black. The larger has a long barbel, dusky with black tips; ventral 

 like that in specimens from Station 4615. 



Cypsilurus poecilopterus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 210, fig. 14. 



Eiocoetus poecilopterus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1846, 19, p. 81 (112). Gunther, Fische der 

 Sudsee, 1909, 8, p. 368. 



One specimen if of an inch long from Station 4686, Lat. 18°, 47.1' S.; 

 Long. 89°, 26' W. 



Anal 12; dorsal 13 or 14 (broken and count uncertain). Cuvier and 



