78 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



frent of base of ventrals and on breast, with irregular black areas; 

 head dusky, with trace of black band behind eye ; distal half of soft 

 dorsal and outer caudal rays with numerous small jet-black spots; 

 caudal, anal and ventrals with peculiar mottlings; these usually in 

 the form of small ellipses, the outline dusky, margined inside and out 

 with white and usually with a dusky central spot as shown in Jenyns' 

 figure. 



105. PRIONODES HUASCARII (Steindachner). 



Serranus huascarii Steindachner, Herpel.-ichthyol., Ergebnisse einer Reise 

 nach Suclamerika, Denksclir. Akad, Wiss. Wien, vol. 72, 1902, p. 24, 

 pi. 2, fig. 1 ; Paita, Peru. 



106. PRIONODES PERUANUS (Lesson). 



Serranus peruanus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, vol. 2, pt. 1, 1828, p. 234; Paita. — 

 Jordan and Eigenmann, Rev. Serranidae, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comra., 

 vol. 8, 1888, p. 408 (1890). 



From the scant description of this species it is impossible to 

 identify it certainly with any known Serranid from the coast of 

 Peru and we have provisionally placed it here on account of the 

 number of dorsal rays. 



Genus PARANTHIAS Guichenot. 



107. PARANTHIAS FURCIFER (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 CABINSA. 



Serranus furcifer Cuvieb and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 196 (264) ; Brazil. 



Paranthias furcifer Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 vol. 1, 1896, p. 1222. — Gilbert and Stabks, Fishes of Panama Bay, 

 Mem. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 98. — Snodgrass and Heller, 

 Shore Fishes of the Galapagos Islands, Proc. Washington Acad Sci., 

 vol. 6, 1905, p. 372. 



One specimen, field No. 09438, 18.8 cm. in length, from Lobos de 

 Afuera. 



Head 3.2 in length; depth 2.8; eye 4.53 in head; snout 4.3; maxil- 

 lary 2.53; interorbital 4.3; D. IX, 19; A. Ill, 10; scales 12-118-38. 



Body slender, strongly compressed, oblong ovate ; caudal peduncle 

 2.6 in head ; snout short, maxillary reaching to vertical from middle 

 of eye; narrow bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and pala- 

 tines, several caninelike teeth in front of jaws; preopercle finely 

 serrate; gillrakers long and slender, 12+25, the longest 1.9 in eye; 

 scales small, strongly ctenoid; dorsal and anal low, caudal deeply 

 forked ; ventrals reaching vent, 1.35 in head ; pectoral reaching to or 

 behind tips of ventrals, 1 in head. 



Color in life: Back and sides dark olive green, lighter on lower 

 part of sides ; ventral part of head, body, and peduncle a thin scarlet, 



