SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 39I 



Microspaihodon dorsalis, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. 

 Amer., 11, 1568, 1898. 



Range. — Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America; Revilla- 

 gigedo, Cocos and Galapagos islands. 



Of this species we have 17 specimens, the largest 200 mm. long, 

 from Seymour, Barrington, Duncan and Charles islands and from 

 Cocos Island. This species, as the last, has before this been known 

 only from the Pacific coast of Mexico and Panama and from the Re- 

 villagigedo Islands. 



Color in life. — Above and on sides bluish-black; belly light gray- 

 ish-blue; fins like back, edged with lavender. 



III. NEXILOSUS ALBEMARLEUS Heller & Snodgrass. 



Nexilosus albemarleus Heller & Snodgrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., v, 

 1903, 204, pi. VIII, Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago. 



This species, constituting the genus Nexilosus., differs from the 

 genus Hypsypops in the same way that the genus Nexilarius Gilbert 

 differs from Abudefduf., viz., in having the suborbital fused with the 

 cheek. 



We have several specimens from Tagus Cove, Elizabeth Bay and 

 Iguana Cove, Albemarle. 



Family LABRID^. 

 112. BODIANUS DIPLOT^NIUS (Gill). • 



Harpe diplotania Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 140, fe7nale. Cape 

 San Lucas. — Jordan & McGregor, Rep. U. S. Comm. for 1898, 181 

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

 and Mid. Amer., 11, 1582, 1898. 



Range. — Cape San Lucas to Panama, Revillagigedo, CHpperton, 

 Cocos and Galapagos islands. 



We have 26 specimens from Cocos, CHpperton and the Galapagos 

 islands — at the last locality from Tagus Cove and Elizabeth Bay, 

 Albemarle ; James ; Charles ; Duncan ; Seymour ; Barrington ; Hood 

 and Bindloe. 



Color of adult male iti life. — Head lake-red, grayish on snout ; tip 

 of under lip yellow ; lower jaw pinkish ; dorsum slate-greenish ; dor- 

 sal spines green-blue, purple at tip ; soft dorsal at base greenish, pur- 

 ple at tip, posterior rays cherry-red ; sides of body and belly light 

 brownish-purple; outer rays of tail purple, inner with greenish base, 

 tips maroon ; chrome spot on side above pectoral ; pectoral blue on 



