SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 379 



Color in life. — Above grayish-olive, bluish iridescence before 

 dorsal fin, greenish on sides of back ; sides dusky grayish ; belly 

 lighter brownish-gray ; center of each scale dusky brown, the spots 

 forming longitudinal streaks following the rows of scales, most dis- 

 tinct above the lateral line; snout and sides of head dusky-olive with 

 greenish iridescence; opercular flap dark brown or black; lips livid 

 grayish; iris golden; fins dusky, spines bluish, rays of soft dorsal 

 and of anal greenish; caudal dark at tip, lighter olive in middle; pec- 

 torals and ventrals dark ; their rays dark bluish-gray. 



89. ORTHOPRISTIS CHALCEUS (Giinther). 



Prisfipoma chalcciim Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1864, 146, Panama. 

 Orthopristis chalceus, Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 181 



(Albemarle, Chatham, Charles islands). — Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV., 1891, 149 (Guaymas). — Jordan & Evermann, 



Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 11, 1337, 1898. 



Range. — Pacific coast of tropical America; Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago. 



Taken at Charles, Chatham, and Albemarle by the Albatross. 



90. ORTHOPRISTIS CANTHARINUS (Jenyns). 



Pristipoma cantharinum Jenyns, Zool. of the Beagle, Fishes, 49, 1842, Gala- 

 pagos Islands. 



Orthopristis cantha7'inus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 II, 1339, 1898. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago. 



Obtained by Darwin and by the Hasslar Expedition. 



Family SPARID^. 

 91. CALAMUS TAURINUS (Jenyns). 



Chrysophrys taurina Jenyns, Zool. of Beagle, Fishes, 56, pi. vii, fig. 12, 1842, 



Galapagos Islands. 

 Clirysophrys cyanopfcra Valenciennes, Voyage Venus, v, pi. 4, fig. 2, 



1846, Charles Island. 

 Calamus tauriiius, Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 181 



(Charles Island). — Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. 



Amer., 11, 1354, 1898. 



Range. — Peru ; Galapagos Archipelago. 



We have 10 specimens from Mangrove Point, Narboro, and from 

 Seymour. Not common anywhere. A number were taken with hook 

 and line in about 15 fathoms off the west shore of the southern Seymour 

 Island, but only i or 2 specimens taken with dynamite in shallow water. 



