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their tips; tip of snout and area around mouth naked; fourth dorsal 

 spine longest, 2.6 in head; soft dorsal evenly rounded; posterior 

 border of caudal truncate; first anal spine very short, second anal 

 spine stout, shorter than soft rays, 3.25 in head; ventrals longer 

 than pectorals, reaching about two-thirds the distance from their 

 base to vent; pectoral short. 



Color in alcohol: Dusk}^ gray, lower parts silvery; a conspicuous 

 light band equal in width to orbit, extending downward and back- 

 ward from below last dorsal spine to in front of the vent; another 

 irregular light area under middle of soft dorsal; fins dusky gray, 

 tips of anal and ventrals darker; base of pectoral black, opercle 

 ending in a broad truncate, jet black opercular flap. 



In the figure of this species as given by Tschudi, the opercular 

 flap is not distinctive, although he mentions the characters of this 

 flap in his description. 



This remarkable species is found on the coasts of Peru and Chile; 

 not common. 



130. SCIAENA DELICIOSA (Tschadi). 



LORNA: CHOLO. 



Plate 9, fig. 3. 



Corvina deliciosa Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Ichth., 1845, p. 8 ; Peru. 



Sciaena deliciosa Joedan and Eigenmann, Kev. Sciaenidae, Rept. U. S. Fish 

 Comm., 1886 (1889), pp. 401, 406.— Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of 

 Nortli and Mid. Amer., vol. 2, 1898, p. 1455. — Abbott, Marine Fishes of 

 Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 356. — Gilbert and Starks. 

 Fishes of Panama Bay, Mem. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 

 132. — Stakks, Fishes from Ecuador and Peru, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 80, 1906. p. 794. 



Two examples, field Nos. 09135 and 09138, respectively^ 21 and 

 22.5 cm. long., from Callao (Lima Market), and one, field No. 517, 

 22 cm. long, from Mollendo. 



Head 2.9 in length; depth 3.4; eye 6 in head; snout 4; interorbital 

 3.8 ; maxillary 2.93 ; pectoral 1.34; D. X, I, 20 ; A. IT, 9 ; scale 7-51-12, 

 50 pores in lateral line to base of caudal. 



Bod}^ compressed, dorsal outline forming a regular curve from 

 tip of snout to base of caudal; ventral outline straighter; head 

 compressed; interorbital rounded; snout rather blunt, slightly pro- 

 jecting beyond tip of mandible; slits and pores on tip of snout well 

 developed ; anterior nostril round, midway between tip of snout and 

 anterior border of orbit; posterior nostril an elongate slit; eye 

 rather small, considerably less than interorbital space, the latter 

 equaling snout; rnaxillary reaching to below middle of pupil (in 

 some specimens to below its posterior border) ; mouth rather large, 

 oblique, the lower jaw slightly included; preopercle finely and 



