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This species was reported not at all uncommon in the shallows of 

 the Marquesas about the Zostera, though I only found one example. 

 It is a very curious and interesting little animal and I watched it 

 inflate and collapse several times before death. The inflation was 

 slight, much less than that of Spheroides. This specimen agrees best 

 with the larger figure given by Drs. Evermann and Kendall,^ though 

 the dark reticulating lines are more distinct. Those on top of the head 

 are narrow, or fine, and others are broken a little. Those all over 

 abdomen are broader and darker. 



SOORP^NID.^. 



78. Scorpaena grandicomis Cuvier. Sculpin. 



Color in life brownish variegated with darker and whitish. A broad 

 brownish band from eye down over cheek. Eye brownish. Fins 

 blackish-brown and whitish. Body marked most everyw^iere with 

 small whitish spots. Length 2^^ inches. 



Two examples were seined in the sea-wrack of the Marquesas shal- 

 lows. 



GOBIID^. 



79. Mapo soporator (Valenciennes). 



Color in life mottled brownish above, sides with darker brownish 

 spots. Back also with dusky and olivaceous markings. Lower sur- 

 face white. ]\Iargin of anal narrowly whitish. Ventral white. Other 

 fins more or less grayish and transparent. Iris brownish. Length 

 2yV inches. Hailer's Rock, in a tide-pool. After being in alcohol 

 there is an evident small bluish shoulder-spot. 



Another example was brownish in life with a dull bluish tint, spots 

 more dull or pale bluish. Markings on back brownish. Fins brown- 

 ish, spots pale bluish. Outer portions of dorsal pale yellowish, bas- 

 ally spotted with pale bluish, and brownish between. Caudal same. 

 Anal paler bluish than on dorsal, becoming somewhat dilute brownish- 

 yellow distally with a submarginal brownish line, and tip of each ray 

 whitish. Pupil greenish, edged narrowly with golden. One example 

 4 inches long from the sea- wrack of the Marquesas shallows. 



PLEURONEOTID^. 

 80. Platophrys ocellatus (Agassiz). Flounder. 



Color in life pale sandy-brown, mottled with white, deep brown and 

 gray, white forming distinct spots. Fins also spotted with same 



'^Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XVII, 1897 (1898), p. 131, PI. 9, figs. 11 and 12. 

 Rappahannock River, near the mouth of Windmill Creek, Virginia. (W. C. 

 KendaU. Type No. 48,794, U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



