112 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



reaching base of caudal; tips of ventrals reaching vent; pectorals 

 long, slightly falcate, tips reaching vertical from origin of anal; 

 rays and spines all very flexible. 



Color in life, a brassy green bar extending from lower side of 

 eye forward (embracing nostril) and parallel to ventral surface of 

 head; bars of opposite sides meeting in front, but there almost lost 

 in the dusky color of the top of the snout; some brassy green on 

 lower part of side of head, on iris which is mottled, and in axil of 

 pectoral ; a black spot with a slight olive tint above base of pectoral ; 

 fleshy flap on posterior margin of opercle dusky olive; fins tinted 

 with olive. 



Color in alcohol : Reddish brown, tinged with olive ; opercular flap 

 and an area above pectoral base, dusky olive; fins olivaceous. 



The paratype has head 3.04 in length ; depth 3.27 ; eye 4.35 in head ; 

 snout 2.9 ; maxillary 2.55 ; interorbital 4.04 ; pectoral 1.2 ; ventral 1.73 ; 

 D. VIII, 24; A. I, 23; scales 15-101 (+4) -35. Color in alcohol, 

 olivaceous with a tinge of reddish; belly light olive; opercular flap 

 dark; upper base of pectoral and humeral area black. 



This species may be readily distinguished from C. princeps by the 

 deep head and body tapering posteriorly (in C. princeps the body 

 is much more slender and more uniform) ; by the longer head and 

 larger eye in specimens of same size, by the truncate form of tliv 

 caudal, straighter lateral line and larger scales. It agrees with C. 

 anomalus from California in having elongated dorsal spines and 

 resembles closely Cuvier and Valenciennes' description of Latilus 

 chrysops from Brazil. 



Family PINGUIPEDIDAE. 

 Genus PINGUIPES Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



141. PINGUIPES CHILENSIS (Molina). 

 SOLLIZO. 



Esox chilensis Molina, Comp. Hist. Nat. Geo.* Civil, vol. 1, 1788, p. 394. 

 Pinguipes chilensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 9, 



1833. p. 338 (457).— Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool., vol. 2, 1848, p. 165, I, 



Atlas, Zool. Ictiol., 1854, pi. 2, fig. 2. — Valenciennes, Les Poiss. 



Regne Anim. de Cuv., 1850, pi. 16, fig. 1. — Gijnther, Cat., Fish. Brit. 



Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 252. — Steindachner, Fauna Chilensis, 1898, p. 



301.— Delfin, Cat. Peces de Chile, 1901, p. 82. 



Two specimens, field Nos. 09716 and 09712, respectively 37.5 and 

 44 cm. in length, from Mollendo. 



^ Compendio della storia geograflt, naturale, e civile del regno del Chile. 8vo. Bologna, 

 1776. 



