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immediately becoming pkmibeous and fading. Fins all more or less 

 pale olive-brown, margin of spinous dorsal somewhat pinkish. Base 

 of caudal with a blackish spot. Inside of lower jaw pale orange. 



Fig. 11. Hcemulon sciurus (Shaw). 



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Iris silvery tinted with pale orange above. Length 2f inches. An- 

 other was similar except gilt bands were a little broader, upper surface 

 of body a little more olivaceous, ventral and anal more golden, and 

 mandible white. 



Very abundant about the ^Marquesas where many w-ere seined. 



58. Bathystoma rimator (Jordan and Swain). Youiis Grunt. 



Grassy Key, Hailer's Rock and the Marquesas. Very abundant in 

 these localities, also about the reefs near Snipe Key, where large 

 schools were seen swimming about in the quiet or still waters. 



SPARIDiE 



59. Calamus penna (Valenciennes). Speckled Porgj-. Fig. 12 (young). 



Color in life brownish, pale purple above on back, and side and lower 

 surface silvery. About six golden-olive vertical bands with edges of 



