DACTYLOSCOPIDAE. 



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white with four narrow cross-bands; a narrow longitudinal black bar across 

 eye through pupil, extending on to preorbital; scatt(>red black dots on head; 

 four small black dots in a row across nape at the junction of the occiput; back 

 with five broad cross-bars of pink, thickly punctulated with brown, narrowly 

 margined in front and back with dark brown, ending about middle of sides in 

 large specimens, in smaller extending nearer ventral surface; the first extending 

 from posterior part of first dorsal to the pectoral; the second beginning about 

 middle of second dorsal and extending but slightly below lateral line; third 

 beginning opposite posterior part of second dorsal and ending about middle of 

 side; fourth beginning about middle of third dorsal and extending to lateral 

 line; fifth extending across base of caudal; first dorsal pink; second and third 

 translucent with black dots on each ray; anal pale translucent; pectoral has a 

 row of black spots extending about half across fin and situated about 3 of the 

 distance from base to tip of fin; caudal with about four faint cross-bars. Second 

 specimen similarly colored; interspaces between bands with scattered brown 

 dots ; rays of outer half of pectoral with a few black spots ; the second cross-bar 

 extending to about middle of body; the third nearly to anal, the fourth almost 

 touching anal. The third specimen has no brown spots on body; the cross- 

 bars extend to the middle line of body. The smallest specimen is colored like 

 the third except that the fourth cross-bar extends nearly to the anal. 



Proportional measurements. 



Dactyloscopus pectoralis Gill. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, p. 267. Jordan & Evehmann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 3, 

 p. 2301. 



Three specimens Ig to Ij inches long from Chatham Island, shore. M. C. Z. 

 29615 (1 specimen). 



