no. 3647 PERCIFORM FISHES — GOSLINE 3 



of the Fish Division were utilized; and the majority of the material 

 listed consists of single preserved specimens, one side of which has 

 been dissected more or less completely with or without alizarin staining. 

 Aside from a few specimens that disintegrated during staining, the 

 specimens, along with their dissected parts, are now back in the 

 bottles from which they came. 



Names of species are those on the USNM bottles, except in one or 

 two instances wherein the generic name obviously was incorrect. 



Anabantoidei. — Specimens of Ophicephalus species (148517), 

 Anabas testudineus (102556), and Osphronemus goramy (12876). 



Specimens of Nandus marmoratus (44785) and Pristolepis fasciatus 

 (107835) were stained and dissected. 



One specimen of Luciocephalus pulcher (35737) was X-rayed. 



Among comparative material, one stained and cleared (17428) and 

 one stained and dissected (8568) specimen of Centrogenys marmoratus 

 and one partially dissected Toxotes jaculatrix (174913) were examined. 



Acanthuroidei. — Partially dissected specimens of Teuthis oramin 

 (195521), Zanclus canescens (82945), and Prionurus sculprum (3882). 



Scombroidei. — The stained and partially dissected specimen, 

 about four inches long, upon which the account of Scombrolabrax is 

 based was loaned to me by Dr. D. W. Strasburg. The original de- 

 scription was checked subsequently against a series of S. heterolepis 

 (USNM 187651), one of which was stained. 



A whole series of tuna and mackerel skeletons in the collections of 

 the USNM and the University of Hawaii was examined for the pineal 

 organ. 



Ophidioidei. — One X-rayed specimen of Gadopsis marmoratus 

 (ANSP 81566) kindly loaned by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. One stained and partly dissected specimen of the same 

 species (48813). 



Two stained and partially dissected specimens of Neobythites gilli 

 (200553) and one oiDicrolene intronigra (200554). 



One partly dissected specimen of Brotula barbata (131279). One 

 stained and partly dissected Lepophidium negropinna (197144). 



Among comparative material, one stained and partly dissected 

 Phycis regius (190434) and one "Macruridae" (158664) were examined. 



Blennioidei. — Parapercidae : one partly dissected Prolatilus 

 jugularis (176470) and an X-ray of the same species (77365) ; X-rays 

 of Mugiloides chilensis (114930), Pinguipes brasiliensis (83241), and 

 Parapercis allporti (179797); partly dissected P. cephalopunctata 

 (1430785). 



Trichonotidae (sensu lato) : one partly dissected Hemerocoetes species? 

 (177085); one skeleton (26335) and one stained and partly dissected 

 specimen of Bembrops gobioides (158132). 



