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eye, 16 more or less developed on lower and 8 on upper limb of first 

 arch; scales very small on head, nape, along base of dorsal, on chest 

 and abdomen, ctenoid, extending more or less on all the fins; dorsal 

 continuous, the soft part higher than the spines, the spines after the 

 fourth of nearly uniform height, the last one about two-thirds length 

 of the longest soft ray, 4.4 in head; caudal margin nearly straight, 

 rounded above and below; anal spines small, graduated, the second 

 one 8.4 in head; ventral rather long, the spine not quite half the 

 length of longest soft ray, 4.2 in head; pectoral broad, the margin 

 round, not quite reaching tip of ventral, 1.5 in head, 4.8 in length. 



General color dark brown, paler underneath; base of many of the 

 scales dark, forming dark lines along the oblique rows of scales; head, 

 chest, and abdomen plain; nape and back along base of dorsal with 

 dark spots; the spots extending on the fin, and also on caudal and 

 anal; general color of dorsal and caudal about the same as adjacent 

 parts of body ; ventrals darker ; pectoral pale brown, becoming darker 

 distally. 



Figure 38. — Pinguilahrum punciaiutn (Evermann and Radcliffe). From the type, 385 mm. 

 long, Mollendo, Peru (U.S.N.M. No. 77688). (After Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917.) 



A single specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 77688), taken at Mollendo by 

 R. E. Coker, is known. Although the length was given as 400 mm. 

 in the original description, it is now only 385 mm. (317 mm. to base 

 of caudal) long. The foregoing description is based on the type, 

 which is before me. The shape of the body, the thick lips, the large 

 teeth, and the long dorsal certainly are suggestive of the labrids. 



Range. — Known only from Mollendo, Peru. 



Genus MYCTEROPERCA Gill, 1862 



Body elongate compressed; head large, pointed; lower jaw project- 

 ing strongly; dorsal with 11 moderately stiff spines, and about 16 to 

 19 soft rays; anal with 3 spines and about 11 or 12 soft rays. Other- 

 wise superficially much as in Epinephelus. 



A single species has been reported from Peru. 



