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The following note was with these specimens: — "Stripe on back bright 

 yellow; first dorsal red ; belly pinkish. In large schools, abundant about rocks." 



In these specimens the anal has uniformly 29 rays. 



Two specimens if and ll inches long from Acapulco. 



Three specimens if and 2| inches long from Chatham Islands, shore. 

 M. C. Z. 29599 (1 specimen). 



Dialommus fuscus Gilbeut. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 13, p. 452. Jordan & Evebmann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 3, 

 p. 2868. 



Two specimens, 2h and 21 inches long from Chatham Island, shore. 



The "oblique pigmented band" of the eye is more nearly vertical than in 

 Anableps. One specimen, M. C. Z. 29611, lie inches long from Perico Island, 

 tide pool. 



Enneapterygius corallicola, sp. no v. 



Plate 7, fig. 1. 



Two specimens In and In inches long from Chatham Island, shore. 



Type, No. 65484, U. S. Nat. Mus., In inches long, from Chatham Island. 



Head 3.44 in length; depth 4.76; eye 3; snout 3.50; maxillary 2.25; dorsal 

 III-XV, 13; anal 23; scales 29 + 10. 



In the In inch specimen, M. C. Z. 29492, the dorsal is III-XV-14; anal 23, 

 scales 27 + 12. 



Each specimen has a small simple nasal cirrus and a larger simple ocular 

 cirrus. 



Color brownish gray; a dark line downward from eye across cheek; a 

 broad dark bar from posterior part of eye to margin of opercle, widest posteri- 

 orly; back light brown with five indistinct pairs of dark brown cross-bars ex- 

 tending to about middle of side, most intense ventrally and coalescing below 

 lateral line; dorsal pale with faint longitudinal stripes, widest on spinous dorsal; 

 anal membrane dusky, rays yellowish; pectoral straw colored, a diffuse black 

 blotch at base, faint dark bar across middle, tip somewhat dusky; caudal trans- 

 lucent with faint dusky cross-bars; first dorsal black. The small specimen has 

 same coloration as preceding except that it has no cross-bar on pectoral. Teeth 

 in both jaws in villiform bands at least two enlarged teeth on lower jaw ante- 

 riorly. Scales ctenoid; pectoral scaly at base, scales extending some distance on 

 fin. 



