304 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 STELLIFER PIZARROENSIS. new species 



Figure 66 



Head 3.4, 3.3; depth 3.1, 3.3; D. XI-I, 20, XII-I, 21; A. II, 10, 

 11,10; P. 18, 17; scales 47, 48. 



Body rather strongly compressed, its greatest thickness less than 

 half its depth; back moderately elevated; outline in advance of dorsal 

 gently convex; head rather short and deep, compressed, the bones 

 quite cavernous; caudal peduncle slender, strongly compressed, 3.2, 

 3.6 in head; snout short, not projecting beyond premaxillaries, 4.2, 

 4.2 in head; eye somewhat oblong, its longest diameter oblique to 

 axis of body, extending downward and backward, longitudinal 

 diameter 3.7, 3.6 in head; interorbital rather narrow, 2.9, 3.0; mouth 

 strongly oblique, terminal; the gape anteriorly a little below middle 

 of eye; maxillary extending nearly to posterior margin of eye, 2.0, 



Figure 65. — Stellifer pizarroensis, new species. From the type, 130 mm. long, Puerto 

 Pizarro, Peru (U.S.N.M. No. 128036). 



2.1 in head; teeth in jaws anteriorly in 2 u-regular series, laterally in a 

 narrow band, the outer ones in upper jaw scarcely enlarged; preopercle 

 with 2 strong diverging spines, both directed slightly outward, and 

 the lower one obliquely downward and backward; a strong pre- 

 opercular ridge present; gill rakers long and slender, those at angle 

 nearly as long as eye, 31, 34 on lower and 19, 19 on upper limb of 

 first arch; lateral line strongly arched, becoming horizontal over 

 anal; scales rather weakly ctenoid, becoming smooth in advance 

 of dorsal and on chest, covering the fins, except distally, the rows 

 anteriorly parallel with lateral line, 5, 5 rows between it and first 

 dorsal spine; dorsal fins more or less connected, the second spine 

 notably stronger than the succeeding ones, though only about three- 

 fourths as long as the third, the latter flexible, 1.7, 1.65 in head; 

 second dorsal only a little higher anteriorly than posteriorly, the 

 longest rays about as long as second spine of first dorsal; caudal some- 



