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Gioimd color yellowish, tinged with olive; back crossed by wavy 

 dark lines and dusky black spots, these irregular in siiape and 

 arrangement but tending to form darker crossbands on back; on 

 back above pectorals are 5 black spots in the form of a V ? the apex 

 pointing forward, end spots most distinct: indistinct lines extending 

 downward and backward from eye; vertical fins blackish, margined 

 with yellowish. 



Parat3-pe 3.8 cm. long, has head 3.14 in length; depth 6.6; eye 6 in 

 head ; snout 3 ; interorbital 3 ; pectoral 1.75 ; disk 1.31 ; tip of snout 

 to origin of dorsal 1.36; tip of snout to origin of anal 1.31; 

 D. 7; A. 5. 



Ground color yellowish, lighter on ventral surface ; irregular dark 

 lines and small dots of black on back ; two small black spots on back 

 above pectoral, separated by a distance slightly greater than inter- 

 orbital width ; a narrow line of brown connecting the eyes ; 3 similar 

 diverging lines extending downward and backward from eye; one 

 from eye to slightly in front of angle of mouth, trace of another 

 above this near upper angle of eye. 



In these specimens the dorsal has six or seven rays, the anal five 

 or six, and the coloration is quite variable. 



This species is distinct from A. pyrrhocinda of Cope, the only 

 previously recorded species of this genus from Peru. It appears 

 from the description close to A. petersii of Garman, from Panama 

 Bay, wrongly credited by Abbott as coming from Peru. 



Family MERLUCCIIDAE. 



THE HAKES. 



Genus MERLUCCIUS Rafinesque. 



187. MERLUCCIUS GAYI (Ouichenot). 

 PEJE-PALO. 



Merlus gayi Guichenot in Gay, Hist. Cliile, vol. 2, 1848, p. 328, I, Atlas, 



Zool. Ictiol., pi. 8, fig. 2, 1854; coast of Chile. 

 Epicopus gayi GtJNTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 248. 

 Gadus australis Hutton, Cat. Fish. New Zealand, p. 4.5, Hector, 1872, p. 



115, fig. 72. 

 Merluccias gayi Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 5, 1872 (1873), 



p. 266. 

 Merluccius gayi Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 18G2, p. 340. — 



Steindachner, Fauna Chilensis, 1898, p. 325. — Delfin, Cat. Feces de 



Chile, 1901, p. 100; Contribucion, Ictiol. Chilena, Rev. Chilena Hist. 



Nat., vol. 7, 1903, No. 5-6, p. 269, fig. 7. 



Four specimens, field No. 471, 16 to 17.5 cm. in length, and five 

 specimens, field No. 472, 16 to 17 cm. in length, from Callao; also 

 one specimen, field No. 09539, 42.5 cm. in length, from Paita. 



