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deeper in places; small spots (about one-half diameter of pupil) 

 irregularly disposed over posterior part of body ; most of these spots 

 white, some green; a green spot of same size on the flap just above 

 insertion of pectoral ; dorsal tipped with reddish ; anal reddish, espe- 

 cially toward tip; caudal narrowly margined all around with red- 

 dish; ventral reddish, the exterior margin, including the spine, blue; 

 a very pleasing fish in form and color. 



According to fishermen from Pimentel the name of this fish is 

 " Cabinsa," the name applied to this red fish in its northern range, 

 while the gray fish {Isacia conception^) , which bears this name in 

 the south is here called " Chibelico." 



Genus HEMIANTHIAS Steindachner. 



108. HEMIANTHIAS PERUANUS (Steindachner). 

 DONCELLA. 



Plate 7, fig. 3. 



AntMas (Hemianthias) peruanus Steindachner, Iclitli. Beitr., vol. 1, 1874, 



p. 4 ; Paita ; Trujillo. 

 Hemianthus peruanus Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. 



Amer., vol. 1, 1896, p. 1222. 

 Pronotogrammus peruanus Jordan and Eigenmann, Rev. Serranidae, Bull. 



U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 8, 1890, p. 413. — Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, 



Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 350. 

 AntMas peruanus Delfin, Cat. Feces de Chile, 1901, p. 65. 



One specimen, field No. 09548, 34.5 cm. in length, from Paita. 



Head 2.84 in length ; depth 2.95 ; eye 4.5 in head ; snout 4 ; maxil- 

 lary 2.53; interorbital 5.4; D. X, 14; A. Ill, 8; scales 10-55 (+4)-20. 



Body compressed, rather deep; caudal peduncle rather stout, its 

 least depth 2.45 in head ; mouth very oblique ; lower jaw strongly pro- 

 jecting, its upper edge entering into upper profile of head; upper 

 profile of head concave; eye very large, its diameter nearly equal to 

 the length of the snout; maxillary reaching vertical from anterior 

 border of pupil ; an outer row of enlarged conical, recurved teeth in 

 upper jaw, back of these a narrow band of villiform teeth, back of 

 this several enlarged caninelike teeth on either side of symphysis; 

 front of lower jaw with 2 large recurved canines, smaller teeth back 

 of these, those on sides of jaw reduced to a single series; vomerine 

 teeth present; a small patch of teeth on the palatines. Gillrakers 

 long and slender, 10-|-24, the longest 1.37 in eye; vertical border of 

 preopercle slightly concave, finely denticulate, those at angle en- 

 larged, projecting backward in a homy process, denticulations on 

 lower border enlarged. 



Dorsal spines slender, the third filamentous, longer than head, 2.5 

 in length ; soft dorsal high, the posterior rays longest, reaching past 



