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dark-brown cross bands extending from back to below lateral line, where 

 they are interrupted, to reappear on the level of base of pectorals as a 

 series of roundish blotches; those in front iiinkish, behind brown; a 

 light streak from nape to front of dorsal, with 2 parallel ones (usually 

 indistinct) on each side of it ; the brown bar inmiediately behind soft 

 dorsal replaced by the ground color, but the corresponding brown 

 spot on sides present ; a brownish streak from snout through ej'e to 

 upper angle of opercle, clear brown anteriorly ; suborbital light blue, 

 with a narrow median streak of clear brown ; numerous clear brown 

 blotches on top of head ; base and axil of pectorals largely pink, the lin 

 very finely vermiculated with pink and light bine; dorsals reddish, with 

 a median light streak, which disappears posteriorly on soft dorsal ; distal 

 part of soft dorsal with numerous small dark-brown spots, becoming 

 light pink posteriorly and alternating with similar spots of whitish or 

 liglit blue; a dark-brown spot at base of ventrals; one below base of 

 pectorals, and one in firont of the latter at margin of gill opening; caudal 

 brown at base and on outer rays, pink on inner rays, vermiculated with 

 irregular narrow light-blue lines; anal and ventrals light glaucous blue, 

 thickly marked with brownish-yellow spots. In older specimens the mark- 

 ings fainter, but the general pattern remains. A specimen 9 inches long, 

 from Indefatigable Island, has the upper black bands coalescent into a 

 continuous beaded streak from eye to last ray of dorsal, where it is inter- 

 rupted to form again a black blotch at base of caudal above ; a blotch at 

 the base of pectoral and several black spots on breast, irregularly arranged. 

 In this specimen the vomerine and palatine teeth are few, and covered with 

 slime so as to be scarcely appreciable. Length, one foot. 



Pacific Coast of Mexico, Cape San Lucas to Galapagos Islands ; common 

 about rocky places; a very handsome little fish. We have examined 

 specimens of this species from Mazatlan, Pearl Islands (Panama), La Paz, 

 from Charles, Hood, Albemarle, and Indefatigable islands, of the Gala- 

 pagos, and from the Revillagigedos. {fasciatus, banded.) 



Prionodes fasciatufi* Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 46, 1840, Chatham Island, Galapagos (Coll. 



Charles Darwin); GCnther, Cat. Fish., i, 90, 1850 (not Ilohcetilriis fascialus, Blocii, wliich is 



Serranus scriba); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 81. 

 Serramis psiltacinns, Valenciennes, Voyage Venus, Poiss., 200, pi. i, fig. 1, 1855, Galapagos 



Islands. 

 SeiTanus calopteryr, .JoKT<Ati & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 350, 1881, Mazatlan. (Typt-, 



No. 28123. Coll. Gilbert.) 

 CeiUropristis psittixciniis, GiJNTHER, I, Cat., 186, 1859. 

 Si'iTunns psUlacinus, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 407, 1800; Bohlenger, Cat., i, 295. 



1599. PRIONODES BULLERI (Boulenger). 



Head 3; depth 3. D. X, 12; A. Ill, 7 ; scales 5 to 6-52-15, pores 50; snout 

 as long as diameter of eye, which is 4 times in length of head ; interor- 

 bital width 5 times in length of head ; lower jaw slightly projecting, with 

 feeble canine teeth on the sides ; maxillary extending to below center of 

 eye, the width of its distal extremity i diameter of eye ; snout and vertex 

 naked, cheeks and opercles scaly, the scales on the opercles large, larger 



