120 THE SHORE FISHES. 



We also have another specimen 62 inches long from Tobogiiilla Island 

 October 28, 1904. 



Kyphosus cinerascens (ForskAl). 



Sciaena cinerascens ForskAl, Descript. Anim., 1775, p. 53. 



Two specimens, Nos. 3182 and 3183, M. C. Z. 29643, 19? and 13 inches long 

 from Cook Bay, Easter Island. 



No. 3183 has head 3.93 in length; depth 2.45; eye 4.54 in head; snout 2.70; 

 maxillary 2.94; pectoral 1.31; longest anal ray 1.75, in base of fin 1.14; base of 

 anal fin 1.38 in head; middle ray caudal fin 4; upper caudal lobe nearly equal to 

 head, 4.01 in length of body; dorsal XI, 12; anal III, 11; scales 9-76 + -16 (19). 

 The scales counted from anal upward and backward to lateral line are in sixteen 

 rows, counted upward and forward are in nineteen rows; in the above formula 

 they were counted vertically from lateral line to front of soft dorsal; most of 

 incisor teeth are rounded at ends with conspicuous roots; the spines of dorsal 

 and anal are heteracanthous. Scales on cheek in eleven rows. 



No. 3182 has head 3.84 in length; depth 2.19; eye.4.06 in head; snout 2.96; 

 maxillary 3.25; pectoral 1.30; longest anal ray 1.73, in base of fin 1.16; base of 

 anal 1.38 in head; middle ray of caudal 3.09; upper caudal lobe 3.38; dorsal 

 XI, 12; anal III, 11; scales counted as above 10-78-17 (20); teeth and spines 

 as in No. 3183; scales on cheek in eleven rows. Of the two specimens the larger 

 resembles more closely the figure in Ruppell's Neue Wirbelthiere, but it has a 

 somewhat longer maxillary; the snout is longer than in the smaller specimen 

 and not so steep; it is slightly concave below the gibbosity, while in the smaller 

 it is evenly convex. 



Girella nebulosa, sp. nov. 



Plate 3, fig. 2, Plate 4, figs. 1, 2. 



Type No. 65511, U. S. N. M. (Field no. 3179), a specimen 11.37 inches long 

 from Cook Bay, Easter Island. 



Head 3.85 in length; depth 2.04; eye 3.81 in head; snout 2.34; interorbital 

 2.54; length of pectoral 0.93; ventral 1.05; thirteenth dorsal spine longest, 

 2.17; height of soft dorsal 1.84; length of ventral 1.08; dorsal XVI, 12; anal 

 III, 10; scales 16-85-25, 11 or 12 scales in transverse series counting down- 

 wards and backwards from origin of dorsal to lateral line and about 25 downward 

 and backward from lateral line to front of anal; the transverse row of scales 

 counted to base of caudal; scales of body finely ctenoid; about seven rows of 

 cycloid scales on cheek; a narrow band of about three rows of scales connecting 



