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Head 2.96 to 3.12 in length; depth 4.25 to 4.55; eye 6.65 to 6.75 

 in head; snout 2.3 to 2.35; maxillary 2.2 to 2.35; interorbital 3.33 

 to 3.85 ; pectoral 1.6 to 1.68 ; ventrals 1.7 to 1.74 ; D. VI, 28 ; A. I, 26 ; 

 scales 27-110 (+6)-37. 



Body cylindrical, tapering and somewhat compressed posteriorly; 

 greatest depth under insertion of dorsal; dorsal outline arched, 

 ventral outline comparatively straight; head subcorneal, profile from 

 tip of snout to above eyes straight ; ej^es small ; interorbital broad and 

 flat; mouth large, slightly oblique; lips thick and flesh}^; maxillary 

 reaching vertical from anterior border of eye; teeth in jaws in villi- 

 f orm bands, an outer row of strong canine-like teeth ; teeth on vomer 

 and palatines, those on front of vomer stout and blunt; jaws sub- 

 equal; margin of preopercle entire; two spines on posterior border 

 of opercle ; dorsal and anal long and low ; dorsal spines much shorter 

 than soft rays ; origin of ventral in front of origin of pectoral ; scales 

 small, ctenoid, regular in arrangement; cheeks and opercles scaly. 



Color in alcohol : Grayish, tinged with brownish red ; two rows of 

 round white spots on each side, the first just below dorsal, the second 

 along lateral line anteriorly, rising slightly posteriorly (only traces 

 of these spots discernible in the larger individual) ; dorsal spines 

 and anterior half of base of dorsal blackish ; fins dusky ; a black area 

 on upper caudal base, above and not at end of lateral line. 



Doctor Coker writes that this fish is locally known as "Rollizo," 

 and is said to be almost the same as the " Bacalao " (cod). 



Family CIRRHITIDAE. 

 Genus CHEILODACTYLUS Lacepede. 



142. CHEILODACTYLUS VARIEGATUS Cnvier and Valenciennes. 



PINTADILLA. 



Cheilodactylus variegatus CttV'Ier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 9, 18.33, p. 364 (493) ; Valparaiso.— Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool., vol. 2, 

 1848, p. 199. — Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1899, p. 857. 



Cheilodactylus cinctus Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Ichth., 184.5, p. 15, pi. 2; 

 Peru. 



Chilodactylus variegatus Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., vol. 2, 1862, p. 

 81. — Steindachnek, Fauna Chilensis, vol. 2, 1898, p. 290 ; Herpet.- 

 ichthyol., Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Siidamerika, Denlischr. Aliad. 

 Wiss. Wien, vol. 72, 1902, p. 34; Callao. — Starks, Fishes from Ecua- 

 dor and Peru, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 797. 



One specimen, field No. 09149, 27 cm. long, from Piscadores Island, 

 taken by hand, floating alive on the surface, presumably sick; four, 

 field No. 09165, 9.4^10.6 cm. long, from Ancon, taken on beach with 



