298 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 LARIMUS GULOSUS, new species 



Bereche 



FlGTJRE 64 



Larimus pacificus Evermann and Radclipfe (not of Jordan andBoUman), 1917, 

 p. 98, pi. 9, fig. 1, Lobos de Tierra, and Callao, Peru (references; descrip- 

 tion). — Regan, 1913, p. 279 (probably not of Jordan and Bollman), Lobos 

 de Tierra, Peru (listed as from 5 to 8 fathoms, without comment) . 



Head 3.15; depth 3.15; D. X-I, 27; A. II, 6; P. 18; scales 49. 



Body moderately elongate, quite compressed, its greatest thickness 

 a Httle less than half its depth; back moderately elevated; dorsal 

 profile anteriorly gently convex; head moderately long, compressed; 

 caudal peduncle rather long, slender, 3.6 in head; snout blunt, 4.4 in 

 head; eye moderate, 4.5 in head; interorbital 4.0; mouth quite large, 

 only moderately oblique; lower jaw strongly projecting, upper margin 

 of its tip about on level with lower margin of pupil ; maxillary reaching 

 fully to posterior margin of pupil, 2.0 in head; teeth very small, in a 



Figure 64. — Larimus gulosus, new species. From the type, 260 mm. long, Lobos de Tierra 

 Island, Peru (U.S.N.M. No. 77694). 



single irregular series in each jaw; gill rakers long, slender, those at 

 angle about as long as eye, 24 (given erroneously as 20 by Evermann 

 and Radcliffe) on lower and 12 on upper limb of first arch; lateral line 

 scarcely arched anteriorly, reaching middle of side above base of anal ; 

 scales strongly ctenoid, rows above lateral line rather irregular, an- 

 teriorly not parallel with it, 6 between lateral line and base of first 

 dorsal spine, 5 between it and base of first ray of second dorsal, 25 

 vertical series between base of ventral spine and origin of anal, forming 

 a sheath one scale wide at base of second dorsal; dorsal fins close 

 together, the spines of the first fin slender, the third longest, but not 

 reaching beyond the tip of the immediately succeeding rays if deflexed, 

 much longer than the soft rays, 2.1 in head; anal small, the second 

 spine moderately enlarged, 3.6 in head, origin of fin about under 



