SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 415 



The specimens show considerable variation in coloration which is 

 apparently due to age. The larger specimens are much more olive- 

 spotted and darker than the smaller ones which are lighter and more 

 reddish with the subopercular blotch more pronounced. 



Most of our specimens were secured about rocks near shore in 

 shallow water. A few were dredged in 14 fathoms. Length of the 

 largest specimen 94 mm. 



153. SCORP^NA HISTRIO Jenyns. 



Scorpana histrio Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 35, 1842, pi. viii, Chat- 

 ham Island. — Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 

 182, Charles and Hood islands, Galapagos Archipelago). — Jordan & 

 EvERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer. , 11, 1843, 1898. 



Scorpmia fiicata Valenciennes, Voy. Venus, V, Zool., 313, 1855, pi. 3, fig. 

 2, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Rattge. — Panama south to Juan Fernandez ; Galapagos Islands. 



Common in the Galapagos Archipelago where the species has been 

 taken at Chatham, Charles, Hood and Albemarle islands. Repre- 

 sented in the collection by 2 small specimens dredged in 14 fathoms in 

 Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island. 



Valenciennes's figure of S. fucata^ while not agreeing exactly with 

 S. histrio, shows no greater inaccuracies than many of his other 

 figures of Galapagos species and we have therefore put it in synonymy 

 with S. histrio -Cvhich is the only authentic species known from the 

 archipelago. In the figure the dorsal is figured as XI, 1 1 which is 

 evidently a mistake for XII, lo. 



154. PONTINUS STRIGATUS Heller & Snodgrass. 



Pontmits strigatus Heller & Snodgrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., v, 1903, 

 208, Wenman Island. 



Range. — Galapagos Islands. 



Known from i specimen taken from the stomach of a shark caught 

 near Wenman Island. 



Family GOBIID^. 



155. ELEOTRIS TUBULARIS Heller & Snodgrass. 



Eleotris tubularis Heller & Snodgrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., v, 1903, 



210, Cocos Island. 



Range. — Cocos Island. 



156. COTYLOPUS COCOENSIS Heller & Snodgrass. 



Cotylopus cocoensis Heller & Snodgrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., v, 1903, 



211, pi. XI, Cocos Island. 



Range. — Cocos Island. 



