154 THE SHORE FISHES 



Alticus atlanticus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Snodgkass & Heller, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1905, 6, p. 419. 

 Salarias atlanticus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. PoLss., 1836, 11, p. 238 (321). 



Five specimens if to Sf inches long from Chatham Island, shore. M. C. Z. 

 29447 (2 specimens). 



In the smallest specimen the cross-bars on the body are distinct; the upper 

 two thirds and the inner base of pectoral is much lighter than the ground color. 



Alticus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 423. 



Salarias stnalus Quoy & Gaimard, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1836, 11, p. 228 (309). 



Two specimens, M. C. Z. 29436, 2n and 2n inches long from Easter Island, 

 shore. 



The large female specimen with eggs gives the following measurements: — 

 head 4.41 in length; eye 4.80 in head; interorbital 2 in eye; ocular tentacle, 

 acutely triangular, fringed on one side; nasal cirrus palmate; a simple cirrus on 

 each side of nape at junction of occiput; upper lip with lobate margin; large 

 hooked teeth posteriorly in each jaw; dorsal XII-15, not extending on to the 

 caudal; anal 16, with one papilla in front; no crest. 



Color in alcohol, head light brownish, with purplish area on upper posterior 

 part of cheek; a faint dusky, short band-like area at corner of mouth; broad 

 faint dusky bar from front part of each eye across lip, and one midway between; 

 an oblong black spot on side of head, behind eye and directed upward and back- 

 ward, apparently ocellated in life; no bands or spots evident on throat or gill- 

 membranes; faint brownish saddle-like bar across back at insertion of spinous 

 dorsal, not extending down to pectoral; seven pairs of dark brown bars, some- 

 what interrupted, on the side of the body, the fourth pair situated under the 

 notch between the dorsals, one of the pairs extending down from posterior part 

 of spinous dorsal, another from origin of soft dorsal; pectoral translucent, punc- 

 tulate with dusky, most intense on lower rays; ventrals pale, finely punctulate 

 with dusky; spinous dorsal translucent, finely punctulate with dusky, in large 

 rather indefinite spots, approximating two rows, those near the outer margin 

 to some extent coalescing and forming an irregular dusky inframarginal band, 

 margin pale; soft dorsal translucent, finely and faintly punctulate, about three 

 blackish spots on each ray forming about nine or ten downward and backward 

 series or partial series of spots; anal similar in appearance to spinous dorsal; 

 caudal plain translucent with about seven small blackish spots on each ray 



