ABT. 6 FISHES OF PINCHOT EXPEDITION — FOWLER 13 



One, 230 mm., from Tower Island, Galapagos Group, June 16. 

 Though two were originally taken from a large Mania hirostris only 

 this one was preserved. 



One, 111 mm., from Mania hirostris at Shavay Bay, Ua Huka, 

 September 20. 



One, in the academy, 270 mm. long, from the mouth of Mania 

 'hirostris but slipped into the stomach,. Shavay Bay, September 21. 

 All the specimens show 13 lamellae in the cephalic disk. 



Family BLENNIIDAE 



RUNULA AZALEA Jordan and BoUman 



Two, 46 to 48 mm., from Black Beach Anchorage, Charles Island, 

 Galapagos Group, June 27. 



Two, in the academy, 46 to 49 mm., at surface of Garden Ba}^, 

 Hood Island, Galapagos Group, June 30. 



Runula alholinea Nichols ^ is supposed to differ in coloration. The 

 terminal dark band on the dorsal fin is said to be entire, not broken 

 as blackish blotches. It was based on specimens 35 to 46 mm. in 

 length. 



OPHIOBLENNIUS PINCHOTI, new species 

 Figure 3 



Desci-lption. — Depth 4 to 4i/4 ; head 31^ to 3%, width 2 to 214. 

 Snout 31/3 to 4% in head ; eye 3 to 3l^, greater than snout or interor- 

 bital, subequal with snout with age; maxillary reaches i^ to % in 

 eye, length 2 to '2,% in head; 4 canines in front of each jaw, each 

 greatly bent, curved or crooked and each outer lower one flaring out- 

 ward ; interorbital 3^5 to 3^/2 in head, broadly convex. Gill opening 

 forms broad free fold over isthmus. 



Body scaleless. Lateral line incomplete, superior, only extends far 

 as depressed pectoral. 



D. XII, 22 or 23, notch dividing fins only about half their depth, 

 fin height about half of head ; A. II, 21 to 23, front rays little highest, 

 about high as dorsal rays ; caudal long as head, emarginate behind ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2>y^\ pectoral but little shorter than 

 head, rays 15; ventral li^ in head. 



Uniform light straw brown. Top of head with dusky blotch, also 

 dusky on upper lip. Iris gray, apparently silvery in life. Along base 

 of each dorsal and anal spine or ray small blackish spot. Caudal 

 with vertical blackish bar. Fins otherwise pale or transparent, with 

 pale yellowish tinge basally to vertical fins. 



Type.—V.^.'^M. No. 91819, collected at Black Beach Anchorage, 

 Charles Island, Galapagos, June 27, 1929, by Dr. A. K. Fisher. Also 

 49 paratypes, same data. Length, 21 to 53 mm. 



»Zoologica, vol. 5, no. 4. p. 64, fig. 11, 1924. Indefatigable Island, Galapagos. 



