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and 4, 3 on upper limb of first arch; lateral line with a long, low arch 

 anteriorly, becoming horizontal over base of anal; scales very strongly 

 ctenoid, 5, 6 oblique rows between lateral line and first dorsal spine, 

 covering second dorsal, caudal, and anal almost completely, present 

 also on basal half or so of ventral and pectoral; dorsal fms close 

 together, the spines very slender, the third or fourth longest, 2,1, 1.75 

 in head ; second dorsal highest posteriorly, the rays much shorter than 

 the longest spines; middle rays of caudal longest, the upper half of fin 

 slightly concave, the lobe somewhat acute, lower half broadly convex; 

 anal small, with convex margin, the spines rather slender, the second 

 adhering moderately closely to the first ray, 3.6, 3.6 in head; ventral 

 inserted immediately behind base of pectoral, reaching (without 

 filament) about halfway to anal, 1.6, 1.5 in head; pectoral short, 

 rather broadly pointed, the fifth and sixth rays longest, failing to reach 

 tip of ventral, 1.4, 1.4 in head, 5.1, 5.25 in length. 



Color silvery gray above; pale sUvery below; side with five distinct 

 dark bars, the first above and behind base of pectoral, the second 

 about under middle of first dorsal, the third a little in advance of 

 origin of second dorsal, the other two under base of second dorsal; 

 an obscure bar at nape extending down to margin of preopercle; ob- 

 scure dark lines along the rows of scales on upper part of body; first 

 dorsal and ventral dusky at least distally; other fins rather pale. 



The description is based on two specimens, 360 and 310 mm. 

 (300 and 253 mm to base of caudal) long, furnished by the Mission 

 which were taken with an otter trawl in the Gulf of Guayaquil, off 

 Puerto Pizarro. The proportions and enumerations given first in 

 each instance pertain to the larger specimen. There is at hand, also, 

 a specimen, 325 mm. long (U.S.N.M. No. 88746) taken at Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador, by W. L. Schmitt. These specimens are identical with 

 others from Panama Bay, with which they were compared. This 

 species is distinguishable from the others herein described by the 

 shorter pectoral fin, the densely scaled second dorsal and anal, and 

 the large eye. 



Range. — El Salvador to northern Peru. Previously not reported 

 from Peru. 



PARALONCHURUS GOODEI Gilbert 



MiMIS 



Paralonchurus goodei Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, 1898, p. 1480, Panama 

 Bay (original description; compared with P. petersi). — Meek and Hilde- 

 BRAND, 1925, p. 673, Panama Bay (synonymy; description; range). 



Head 4.0 to 4.25; depth 4.0 to 4.5; D. X or XI-I, 27 or 28; A. II, 

 7; P. 19 to 21; scales 66 to 73; vertebrae 23 or 24 (2 specimens 

 dissected). 



Body rather slender, more or less V-shaped anteriorly in cross sec- 

 tion, the back being very thin, greatest thickness of body about two- 



