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Ophioscion perissa (Heller & Snodorass). 

 Plate 4, fig. 3. 

 Sciaena perissa Heller & Snodqrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1903, 6, p. 197. 



One specimen, No. 3253, 7j inches long from Wreck Bay, Chatham Island. 



Micropogon altipinnis Gunther. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 149. Gilbert & Starrs, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 132. 



One specimen 3j inches long from Panama market. 

 Dorsal XI-I, 21; anal II, 8. 



Polyclemus goodei (Gilbert). 



Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 135, pi. 20, fig. 40, 40a. 

 Paralonchurus goodei Gilbert, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1480. 



One specimen 2? inches long from Panama market. 

 Eques fuscovittatus, sp. nov. 

 Plate 5, fig. 1. 



One specimen, the Type, No. 65494, U. S. N. M., 7.37 inches long from 

 Acapulco. 



Length to base of caudal 158 mm.; head 3.16 in length without caudal; 

 depth 2.90; eye 3.84 in head; snout 3.33; maxillary 2.63; interorbital 4.16; 

 dorsal X-I, 37; anal II, 7; scales about 75; gillrakers 3 + 14. 



Color: centres of scales on body and head grayish, their edges brownish, 

 giving the specimen a brownish gray appearance; seven narrow longitudinal 

 dark brown stripes, alternating with interrupted stripes of the same color on 

 body; lowermost entire stripe runs from just below eye to base of last anal ray 

 and extends faintlj' on lower edge of caudal peduncle; second beginning at 

 lower posterior margin of eye, extending across upper base of pectoral, fading 

 out on caudal peduncle; third beginning at middle of posterior margin of eye 

 and extending to middle of base of caudal ; fourth extending from upper margin 

 of eye to base of last ray of dorsal ; fifth extending from front of nape to base of 

 fifth soft dorsal ray, thence along base of dorsal; sixth originating on shoulder 

 and following a more or less irregular course to base of seventeenth dorsal ray, 

 thence along base, joining fifth at 25th ray; seventh commencing on front of 

 nape in common with fifth and following an irregular course to base of ninth 

 dorsal ray, thence along base of fin joining sixth; a dark stripe extending along 



