122 THE SHORE FISHES. 



Six specimens I to Is inches long from shore of Easter Island, December 20, 

 1904. 



General color, iridescent gray with nine purplish brown cross-bands, wider 

 above, tapering toward ventral surface, these about .5 diameter of eye at top; 

 interspaces thickly spotted with brown, many of these coalescing into irregular 

 shaped areas; two longitudinal rows of comparatively large spots on inter- 

 spinous membranes of dorsal, the first through middle of fin, the second near base; 

 three or four rows of smaller spots on basal half of soft dorsal and anal; a few 

 small faint spots on basal portion of caudal; pectoral pale; ventral dusky; 

 outer margin of vertical fins dusky; teeth trilobate. 



The stomach is gizzard-like, peritoneum black, underlaid with silvery; 

 owing to the bad condition of the viscera the pyloric coeca are difficult to count 

 but there are probably not over twenty; air bladder divided into two horns 

 posteriorly; in one of the specimens examined the stomach and intestines were 

 filled largely with a calcareous Alga (Corallina); a few diatoms, other algae 

 and small gastropods were also present. These specimens apparently differ 

 from current descriptions of Girella and Tephraeops in lacking an inner band of 

 smaller teeth on jaws and in having in the largest specimen (type) a number of 

 smaller supernumerary teeth outside of and closely attached to the regular series. 



MULLIDAE. 



Upeneus xanthograininus Gilbert. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1892, 14, p. 553. Jordan & Ev'ehmann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, 

 p. 860. 



One example, No. 3321, 8g inches long from Acapulco. 



Pseudupeneus multifasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., 190.5, 23, pt, 1, p. 256, pi. 22. 



Mullus muUifasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie. Zool. 1825, p. 3.30, pi. 59, fig. 1. 



A specimen, No. 3196, II4 inches long from Cooks Bay, Easter Island. 



Dorsal VIII, I, 8; anal I, 6; scales 3-29-6; head 2.95 in length; depth 

 2.87; eye 5.71 in head; snout including upper lip 1.70, not including upper lip 

 1.77; maxillary plus premaxillary 2.28; width of maxillary 2.12 in its length; 

 origin of barbel to angle of preopercle 1.63 in head; length of barbel 1.70 in 

 head; longest dorsal spine, 3rd, 1.95; longest ray 2.85, last ray 4; longest anal 

 ray, 1st, 2.66, last ray 3.48; caudal lobes rather short, upper slightly longer 



