CONTENTS 



Pages 



1. Report on fishes from Allan Hancock expeditions 

 in the California Academy of Sciences (Plates 1-5) 



By Alvin Seale 1-+6 



2. A new genus and species of pearl fish, family Carapidae, 

 from oif Gorgona Island, Colombia (Plate 6) 



By Earl D. Reid +7-50 



3. A key to the pipefishes of the Pacific American coasts 

 with descriptions of new genera and species 



By Earl Stannard Herald 51-64 



4. Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the 

 Pacific coast of tropical America (Plates 7-16) 



By George S. Myers and Charles B. Wade .-- 65-112 



5. The Pacific American atherinid fishes of the genera Eurystole, 

 Nectarges, Coleotropis, and Melanorhinus (Plates 17-19) 



By George S. Myers and Charles B. Wade 113-150 



Night collecting with the use of lights — 114-115 



6. New fishes of the families Dactyloscopidae, Microdesmidae, and 

 Antennariidae from the west coast of Mexico and the Galapagos 

 Islands with a brief account of the use of rotenone fish poisons 

 in ichthyological collecting (Plates 20-23) 



By George S. Myers and Charles B. Wade 151-180 



Use of rotenone fish poisons 152-155 



7. Two new genera and five new species of apodal 

 fishes from the eastern Pacific (Plates 24-28) 



By Charles B. Wade 181-214 



8. New fishes in the collections of the 

 Allan Hancock Foundation (Plates 29-32) 



By Charles B. Wade 215-238 



Index — 239-247 



