372 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



length of snout from nostril 3^ in head; mouth not very oblique ; 

 maxillary 2^ in head; posterior edge of preopercle finely serrated, the 

 serrations coarser on the lower limb, first dorsal spine shortest, a little 

 more than i of eye; second f longer than first; third longest, about 

 equal to maxillary; the following spines rapidly shorter to seventh, 

 beyond which they are about equal ; caudal peduncle about twice eye 

 in depth ; posterior margin of caudal fin slightly lunate, upper angle a 

 little prolonged, the lower rounded. 



Color. — Above dark olive-brown ; belly grayish ; several large gray- 

 ish spots along sides (a very characteristic mark of the species, absent 

 in P. humeralis) ; opercles bronze-yellow, lower lip light yellow ; pec- 

 torals bronze above, dusky beneath ; dorsal spines dusky, membrane 

 saffron ; caudal grayish dusky, angles with orange tips ; posterior rays 

 of anal orange-tipped, the rest grayish dusky ; ventrals pale dusky 

 with rays orange-tipped. 



73. PRIONODES FASCIATUS Jenyns. 



Prionodes fasciatus Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 46, 1840, Chatham Island. 

 — Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 121 3, 1896. 

 Serranus psittacimcs, Boulenger, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 2d Ed., 295. 



Range. — Pacific Coast of Mexico, Panama, Revillagigedo Islands, 

 Galapagos Islands (Chatham, Hood, Indefatigable, Albemarle). 



74. PRIONODES STILBOSTIGMA Jordan & Bollman. 



Prionodes stilbostigma Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 158 

 (Galapagos Archipelago). — Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and 

 Mid. Amer., i, 12 16, 1896. 

 Raitge. — Galapagos Archipelago. 



One specimen dredged in 45 fathoms by the Albatross (iSSy-'SS) 

 near Hood Island, 0° 50' S. ; 89° 36' W. 



75. PARANTHIAS FURCIFER (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



&rra;n/.y /«;r//"6'r CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 11, 264, 1828, 



Brazil. 

 Serranus coloniis Valenciennes, Voyage Venus, ZooL, 300, pi. 2, lig. i, 



1846, Galapagos Islands. 

 Parantliias fiircifcr, Boulenger, Cat. Fishes, Brit. Mus., 2d Ed., I, 273. — 



Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 1221, 1896. 



Range. — Both coasts of tropical America; Revillagigedo and 

 Galapagos islands. 



This fish is very abundant about tlic Galapagos Islands. We have 

 specimens from Tagus Cove, Albemarle; James; Charles; Seymour; 



