366 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



Our adult example has the profile of the head rising almost vertical 

 from the snout, forming a large, rounded prominent angle above a 

 point midway betw^een snout and nostril, from which it runs steeply 

 upward and backward to front of dorsal fin, which latter arises above 

 posterior margin of eye ; maxillary reaching halfway from pupil to 

 posterior rim of orbit. Head4|-; depth 5^ ; D. 56; A. I, 25. 



The color of the specimen when fresh was as follows : Above 

 greenish-golden, below yellow, everywhere except on belly and throat 

 spotted with purple spots as large as a pea and placed about one inch 

 apart; head yellowish; iris black with a golden blotch on the ball 

 above the pupil ; pectoral fins purplish above, yellow beneath and with 

 tips purple ; ventrals yellow below, deep green above ; dorsal purplish, 

 spotted with violet ; anal yellow, with a row of purple spots ; caudal 

 greenish. 



59. CORYPH^NA EQUISETIS Linnaius. 



CoryphcE7ia equisetis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 261, 1758. — Jordax & 

 EvERMAXN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 953, 1896. — Jordan & 

 McGregor, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1898 (1899), 276 (San Bene- 

 dicto Island). 



This species, like the last, is one of wide tropical distribution. Jor- 

 dan and McGregor report one specimen from San Benedicto Island. 

 Their specimen, however, is a young one, 9 inches long, and it may 

 be doubted that it belongs to this species rather than to C hippurzis. 



Family NOMEID^. 



60. GOBIOMORUS GRONOVII (Gmelin). 



Gobms gronovii, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., xiii, 1205, 1788, Tropical America. 

 Nof/ietts gronovii, Jordan tS: Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 

 949, 1896. 



Range. — Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. 

 We have a few small specimens, about 35 mm. in length, taken 

 with Portuguese men-of-war {P/iysalia) at about 7° 26' N. ; 100° 

 36' W. 



Family KUHLIIDiE. 

 61. KUHLIA T^NIURA (Cuv. & Val.). 



Duh's iccniiira Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 114, 1829. 



Kuhlia argc Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 159, Chat- 

 ham Island. — Jordan & McGregor, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1898 

 (1899), 277 (Clarion and Socorro islands). — Jordan & Evermann, Fishes 

 North and Mid. Amer., i, 1014, 1896. 



Kuhlia tccniura, Boulenger, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 2d Ed. i, 39, 1895. 



Range. — Indian Ocean, East Indies, Polynesia, Revillagigedo, 

 Cocos and Galapagos islands. 



