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pies examined as to this point, the gill rakers are as follows: 20 + 25, 

 23 + 24, 21 + 23, 19 + 30, the longest contained U to If in eye. Scales large, 

 thin, and decidnous, a few only remaining on the specimens at hand. 

 Origin of the dorsal lin eqvially distant from the base of the candal fin 

 and tip of snout or front of eye. Anal inserted under beginning of poste- 

 rior third of base of dorsal; pectorals not reaching ventrals, the latter 3 

 distance to front of anal. Color light olive, with broad, well-dehned lat- 

 eral silvery streak of nearly uniform width, usually narrowing anteriorly 

 and on middle of caudal peduncle, its width in our largest specimen % 

 diameter of eye; the silvery streak has a slight golden tinge; a narrow 

 dark vertebral line, which widens on the nape; occiput blackish. Ver- 

 tebra} 40, counted in 1 example only. This species differs from Stohph- 

 orus culfratus in its slenderer body, shorter snout, wider opercle and 

 smaller teeth ; the belly is also not sharply carinate, the dorsal is more 

 anteriorly placed, the ventrals are farther back, and the silvery streak is 

 wider anteriorly. It differs from S. dclicatissimus in its longer, slenderer 

 head and body, smaller eye, longer, sharper snout, and much wider, bet- 

 ter-defined silvery streak. Length 1^ to 2f inches. Panama; common. 

 (Gilbert & Pierson.) (Named for Edwin Chapin Starks. ) 



Stolephorus starksi, Gilbert & Pierson, Fishes of Panama, MS. 1808, Panama. 

 Page 448. After Stolephorus spinifer add : 



737(a). STOLEPHORUS S( OFIKMH, Jordan .'i (hilvor. 



Head 3| to 3n)-iii length to base of caudal; depth 4J to 5; eye 3| to 4 in 

 head. D. 12; A. 25 or 26; scales 41 or 42. Body somewhat compressed and 

 elevated, the belly not carinated nor serrated. Teeth in both jaws, and 

 on palatines, a few on vomer; maxillary covered with teeth its entire 

 length and reaching beyond base of mandible, but not to opercular mar- 

 gin. Gill rakers 10 -f- 12, the longest a little more than i the eye. Origin 

 of dorsal midway between base of median candal rays and center of eye; 

 anal not ijuite as long as head, its origin below the middle of dorsal; 

 lower caudal lobe longer than upper; longest ray equaling length of the 

 head; shortest caudal ray 2i in longest. Pectorals not reaching ventrals. 

 If in head. Both anal and dorsal fins preceded by a rudiment.iry spine, not 

 i length of first true ray. Color translucent, with a distinct broad silvery 

 stripe as wide as the eye, growing more diffuse at lower anterior edge^ 

 narrowing on caudal peduncle, and becoming fan-shaped on the base 

 of caudal; tip of snout black; a distinct median band of black specks 

 extending from tip of snont to base of caudal; no distinct black mark- 

 ings on fins. Close to Stolephorun delicatissimus, but with larger head, 

 wider lateral band, and greater number of dorsal and anal rays. Length 

 3 inches. Found in the Astillero at Ma/.atlan ; not very abundant. (Named 

 for Mr. Norman Bishop Scofield, a member of the Hopkins exiiedition to 

 Sinaloa.) 



S/olephorvi scofieldi, Jordan & Culver, Fishes of Sinaloa, 410, 1895, Mazatla.n, Mexico- 

 (Type, No. 2941, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mns. Coll. Hopkins Exped. .o Sinaloa.) 



