98 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Jordan and Evermann give the following colors in life: Dark 

 above with strong bright reflections of purplish-brown; silvery below, 

 the lower part of the caudal peduncle golden yellow ; middle of sides 

 noticeably punctulate with brown dots ; inside of mouth deep orange- 

 yellow; lining of opercle black; dorsal and caudal fins dusky whitish, 

 with more or less dark edging; lower rays of caudal yellowish; fins 

 otherwise translucent, unmarked; axil of pectoral light yellowish 

 above; the silvery color of the sides of the head and the bright re- 

 flections on its upper surface very conspicuous, more so than in any 

 other species of the genus. 



Length 2 feet ; a neat and well-marked species. Pacific coast from 

 Panama to Peru; previously recorded only from Bay of Panama 

 where it is abundant. 



Genus LARIMUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



127. LARIMUS PACIFICUS Jordan and Bollman. 



BEREOHE. 



Plate 9, fig. 1. 



Larimus paciflcus Jordan and Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 12. 1899, 

 p. 161 ; Pacific Ocean, off coast of Colombia, at Albatross Station 2802. 

 8° 28' N. ; 79° 31' 30" W., between Galapagos Islands and Panama.— 

 Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., vol. 2, 1898. p 

 1424. — Gilbert and Starks, Fishes of Panama Bay, Mem. California 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 124. 



One specimen, field No. 09525, 25 cm. long, from Lobos de Tierra ; 

 and one, field No. 09127, 17.3 cm. long, from Callao. 



Head 2.98 in length; depth 3.15; horizontal diameter of eye 4.75 

 in head; snout 4.15; maxillary 2.12; interorbital 3.88; pectoral 1.14; 

 D. X-I, 27 (I) ; A. II, 6 (i) ; scales 7-44 (+5)-10; gillrakers 10+20, 

 long, slender, equal to diameter of eye. 



Body compressed, slender, not so heavy forward as in related 

 species ; back regularly rounded from snout to last dorsal rays ; belly 

 evenly arched anteriorly, base of anal very oblique, caudal peduncle 

 slender; snout short, mouth rather large, oblique, the maxillary 

 reaching to below posterior border of pupil; lower jaw projecting; 

 e3^e moderate; scales large, regular, those on body including breast, 

 ctenoid ; those on head, cycloid ; base of soft dorsal and anal with a 

 scaly sheath; membranes scaly; dorsal high, first spine A'ery small, 

 almost concealed by skin, the fourth largest, 2.1 in head; second 

 dorsal moderate; caudal with middle rays longest, lanceolate in 

 shape ; anal small, first spine very small, the second shorter than soft 

 rays, 3.8 in head ; a entrals short, 1.65 in head, not reaching to tip of 

 pectoral. 



