SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 4I9 



166. RUNULA AZALEA Jordan & Bollman. 



Runula azalea Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , xii, 1889, 171, 

 Indefatigable Island. — Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 

 453 (Indefatigable Island). — Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1896, 233, 

 pi. 37 (Indefatigable Island). — Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North 

 and Mid. Amer., 111, 2377, 1898. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago. 



One specimen taken at Barrington Island. Seen in tide-pools at 

 most of the other islands of the Galapagos and at Cocos Island. 



Our specimen differs somewhat in proportions and coloration from 

 the type. Length 37 mm.; head 5 in length; depth 7|; eye 3 in 

 head ; interorbital 3^. 



Color in life. — Above olive; the side with a bright golden band 

 as wide as the eye extending from snout to tail, below the stripe 

 grayish-blue; belly bluish; head and snout above dark olive, below 

 the level of the eye bluish like the lower part of the side; a black 

 streak on caudal peduncle running through the fin ; dorsal fin golden 

 with a wide black band running through the middle; caudal fin red; 

 anal lighter red; pectoral yellowish; ventrals white ; iris emerald, 

 teeth tawny-yellow. 



This specimen differs from those taken by the Albatross at Inde- 

 fatigable Island in the absence of dark transverse bars on the sides of 

 the body and in the lesser depth. 



167. ALTICUS ATLANTICUS (Cuvier& Valenciennes). 



Salarias atlantiais Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 321, 1836, 



Madeira. 

 Rtfpiscark's atlantiais, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 



Ill, 2397, 1898. 



Range. — Both coasts of tropical America, north on the Pacific 

 side to Todos Santos; Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle, Nar- 

 boro, Charles and Duncan). 



Color i?i life. — Above and on sides liver-brown; the side with 7 

 or 8 dark brown transverse bars; the belly grayish ; an olive, black 

 centered ocellus behind the eye ; dorsal fin dark brown, red bordered ; 

 caudal medially brown, the upper rays red, lower yellow ; pectorals 

 and anal brown like the body ; ventrals like the belly in coloration ; 

 nuchal tentacles red; iris pea-green. 



16S. ALTICUS CHIOSTICTUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Salarias chiostictus Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 363, 1883, Mazatlan, 



Mexico. 

 Entomacrodus chiostictus, Jordan & McGregor, U. S. Fish Com. Rep. 1898, 



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



North and Mid. Amer., iii, 2398, 1898. 



