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no. 101720 (2 specimens), Independencia Bay, clean sand bottom at 

 3.5 fathoms, January 14; no. 101721 (1 specimen), Callao, January 11. 

 The lack of photophores in these specimens is definitely appreciable. 



Table 2.' — Measurements of the head in specimens of Aphos porosus from 



Peru and Chile 



•The data in this table were taken from specimens bearing the following U.S.N.M. num- 

 bers: 77382, Tome, Chile; 77383, locality ?; 77552 (type of P. afuerae), Lobos de Afuera, 

 Peru; 88808, Lota, Chile; 101719, north shore of Middle Chincha Island, Peru; 102048, In- 

 dependencia Bay, Peru; and 103432, locality ?; and Stanford University no. 22680, Tome, 

 Chile. In addition, 12 specimens from San Juan and Independencia Bays, Peru, collected 

 by the 1938 Hancock Exi)edition, arc recorded through the courtesy of Dr. George S. Myera. 

 The lengths of aJl specimens range from 19.9 to 222 mm. 



Genus PORICHTHYS Girard 



Porichthya *GrRARD, 185oa, p. 141 (original description) ; 1S5S, p. 134 (descrip- 

 tion).— ♦Guntheii, 1861, pp. 17r)-176 (description).— *Knfr, 1SQ5, pp. 18&- 

 190 (description). — * Jordan and Gilre3{T, 188:^a, pp. 7oO-751 (diagnosis, type 

 designation). — ♦Meek and Hall, 18S5, pp. 52, 55-57 (description, review of 

 species). — * Jordan and Evehsmann, 1898, pp. 2317-2.323 (description, descrip- 

 tion of lateral line and pore structure quoted from Greene, analysis and 

 description of species). — Be:an and Wkpi), 1910, pp. 514, 515, 52,5 (compari- 

 son). — RinEiRO, 1915, p. — (description, type of new family). — Meek and 

 HiLDEBBAND, 1928, pp. 910, 922 (diagnosis, Nautopai-diutn a synonym). 



Type. — '■'Porichthys notatus Grd. = Batrachiis porosissimus C. & V." 

 (designated by Jordan and Gilbert, 1883a, p. 751). 



The species of Porichthys are compared in the preceding key and 

 in tables 1 and 3. 



PORICHTHYS MYRIASTER, new species 



Figure 57, h 



Porichthys notatus (misidentifications) Yarrow and Henshaw, 1878, p. 202 

 (color). — Jordan and Evermann, 1898, pp. 2:^21-2322 (synonymy, descrip- 

 tion; in part). — Stabks and Morris, 1907, pp. 230-231 (color, range, and 

 habitat; in part). — Starks and Mann, 1911, p. 16 (bathymetric distribution; 

 In part). — Osrukn and Nichoi^, 1916, p. 177 (records for bays on outer 

 coast of Lower California, identifications presumptive). — Hubbs, 1920, p. 

 380 (bionomics; in part). — Greene and Greene, 1924, pp. 501-506, fig. 1 

 (San Tedro Harbor record, phosphorescence; good figure). — Barnhart, 1936, 

 pp. 92-93 (diagnosis; in part), fig. 281. 



