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and the stout spines from the angle extend further along on this border 

 than up the posterior, and the gradation is less abrupt; nine series of 

 scales between the eye and the angle of the prseoperculum. The end of 

 the upper maxillary reaches nearly or quite to the vertical from the pos- 

 terior margin of the orbit. Dorsal fin with a notch ; the ninth spine be- 

 ing exactly the same length as the tenth. 



The colors on the side of the body have somewhat the same arrange- 

 ment as is observed in G. radians. There are eight transverse streaks 

 between the angle of the operculum and the base of the caudal fin, and 

 these are crossed along their middle by a longitudinal band. All these 

 markings are more or less indistinct. An irregular black blotch at the 

 base of the caudal fin. Soft dorsal and caudal spotted. Ground color 

 yellowish. 



Total length, 9.50 inches; length of the head contained 3 J times in 

 the total len gth ; the greatest height of the body is a little more than 

 one-quarter of the total length. 



Locality : Bay of La Paz, Lower California. 



The only characters that are peculiar to the species described by 

 Glinther are the six rows of scales between the eye and the angle of the 

 praeoperculum, and the longer tenth spine of the spinous dorsal. These 

 are of extremely doubtful importance to found a new species upon, inas- 

 much as the species is recognized as subject to local or individual varia- 

 tion. 



EOHENEIDIDJE. 



ECHENEIS REMOEA, Linn. [No. 17547]. 



Echeneis remora, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 446; Amcen. Acad., 1, 1749, 320, and Mus. 

 Reg. Ad. Fred., i, 1754, 75.— Osbeck, Voy. China, 1771, 94.— Schcepft, Schrift. 

 Gesellsch. Naturg. Freunde, Berlin, viii, 3, 145. — Bl., Naturg. der ausland. 

 Fische, ii, 1785, 134, pi. 172,— Bl., Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 1801, 240.— Lacep., 

 Hist. des. Poiss., iii, 1803, 146, 147, pi. 9, f. 1.— Cuv., Rfegne Anim., 1817.— 

 Blumenb., Abbild., 1810, pi. 78.— RiSSO, Ichth., Nice, 1810, 177 : Eur. Merid., 

 iii, 1827, 269. — Shaw, Zool., iv, 1803, 202, pi. 31. — Mullek, Prodr. Faun. 

 Dan., 1777, no. 361.— Mitch., Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New York, i, 1815, 378.— 

 TuRTON, Brit. Faun., 94.— Richards, Faun. Bor, Amer., 1836, 265.— Faber, 

 Fische Islands, 115.— Schleg., Faun. Japon. Poiss., 1850, 271.— DeKay, Zool., 

 New York, Fishes, 1842, 309. — Lowe, Trans, Zool. Soc. London, iii, 16.— 

 Benn., Whaling Voy,, 271,— Jenyns, Zool., Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 142.— Yar- 

 RELL, Brit. Fishes, i, 3d edit., 1859, 670.— GtJNTH., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1860, 390; Cat. Fishes, ii, 1860, 378; Jour. Mus. Godelf. Heft., xi, 1876, Fische 

 der Sudsee, Heft., v, 156.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Phila., 1864, 60. 



