FISHES OF WEST COAST OF PERU. 71 



Genus EPELYTES, new genus. 



Type of genus. — {Epclytes punctatus). 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; scales moderate or rather 

 small, ciliate, lateral line complete, parallel with the back, tubes 

 straight and extending along the entire scale; mouth rather small, 

 protractile ; maxillar}'^ without supplemental bone ; lips fleshy, thick ; 

 jaws with broad bands of villiform teeth and an outer row of round, 

 pointed canines, larger in front than on the sides of the jaws; a small 

 patch of teeth on the vomer ; palatines and tongue naked ; preopercle 

 weakly denticulate, these barely showing through the fleshy covering 

 of preopercle; opercle with two short, flat spines; gillrakers few; 

 branchiostegals 6; dorsal continuous, base fleshy, the rays XVI, 16; 

 anal III, 13; caudal truncate or rounded; ventrals slightly behind 

 pectorals, close together, spine small ; pectorals rounded. 



(eTTT^XuTTjs = stranger.) 



99. EPELYTES PUNCTATUS. new species. 



NEGRO. 



Plate 6, fig. 3. 



Type.—Qd.i. No. 77688, IT. S. Nat. Mus. (field No. 09706), 40 cm. in 

 length, from Mollendo. 



Head 3.10 in length; depth 2.88; eye 6 in head; snout 2.55; maxil- 

 lary 2.80; interorbital 4;, D. XVI, 16; A. Ill, 13; scales 28-90 

 (+4)-26. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed, rather robust anteriorly; 

 caudal peduncle stout, its least depth 2.12 in head; head deep and 

 heavy; eye small, high, 1.5 in interorbital; lips thick and fleshy; 

 mouth small; posterior border of maxillary not reaching vertical 

 from front of eye; maxillary without supplemental bone; bands of 

 villiform teeth in jaws, with an outer row of large, curved, conical 

 canines, those in front of jaws larger than those on sides; a small 

 patch of villiform teeth on vomer, none on palatines and tongue; 

 preopercle with traces of weak denticulations, largely concealed by 

 integument; gillrakers rather short, 8+16, the longest 2.18 in eye. 



Scales above lateral line anteriorly small, becoming larger poste- 

 riorly and below lateral line; small, elongate, overlapping non- 

 ciliated scales on cheeks and opercles; jaws, and top of head an- 

 teriorly, without scales; scales on top of head and behind occiput 

 nonciliated, othei^ ciliated; fins scaly. Origin of dorsal in vertical 

 from posterior border of opercle ; first dorsal spine very small, con- 

 cealed by integument, half as long as second, which in turn is about 

 one-half third, first to sixth spines graduated, sixth to sixteenth of 



