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Coloration in alcohol: Back dusky; sides yellowish; centers of 

 scales dusky, forming dusky stripes along rows of scales, those above 

 lateral line parallel with it to below origin of soft dorsal where they 

 turn obliquely upward, those nearest back being the first to turn up- 

 ward and those on caudal peduncle again following rows of scales 

 parallel with lateral line, those below lateral line slightly wavy, 

 horizontal, these becoming silvery on belly ; fins dusky 3^ellow ; axil 

 of pectoral black; skin lining region around pseudobranchiae black, 

 this showing through opercle as a dark area. 



This species has the general color pattern of L. accUvis, differing 

 in having the dark streaks above lateral line anteriorly parallel with 

 it instead of oblique. This description is based on a specimen 25 cm. 

 long from Lobos de Tierra. 



The individual from Callao has head 2.98 in length; depth 3.1; 

 eye 4.15 in head; snout 4.18; maxillary 2.18; interorbital 3.55 pec- 

 toral 1.2; D. X-I, 27; A. II, 6 (i). 



Genus STELLIFER (Cuvier) Oken. 



128. STELLIFER MINOR (Tschudi). 

 MOJABILLA. 



riate 9, fig. 2. 



Corvina minor Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, lehth., 1845, p. 9; Coast of Peru, 



Lima market. 

 Sciaena minor Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 295. 

 Corvina (Homoprion) agassizli Steindachner, Ichthy. Beitr., vol. 2, p. 



26, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 71, 1875 ; Callao. 

 Corvina agassizii Cope, Proc. Aiuer. Philos. Soc, May, 1877, p. 42 ; Pacas- 



mayo and Chimbote bays. 

 Stelliferus minor Jordan and Eigenmann, Rev. Sciaenidae, Rep. U. S. Fish 



Comm., 1886 (1899), p. 393. 

 Stellifer minor Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1899, p. 354. — Starks, Fishes from Eucador and Peru, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 793. 

 Stellifer agassizii Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



Phila., 1899, p. 355. 



One specimen, field No. 09427, 15.9 cm. long, from Pacasmayo, 

 taken with hook and line from the pier, and one, field No. 09170, 15 

 cm. long, from Chimbote. 



Head 3.16 in length; depth 2.8; eye 5.1 in head; snout 4; inter- 

 orbital 2.8; maxillary 2.5; pectoral 1.05; D. XIV, 20; A. II, 11; 

 scales 8-53-14. 



Body compressed, dorsal outline more strongly curved than ven- 

 tral : head broad, cavernous, region over eye somewhat depressed ; 

 snout bluntly rounded, scarcely overlapping the premaxillaries ; 

 mouth moderate, oblique; maxillary reaching to below middle of 



