EL3 FISHES OF SINALOA. 485 
yellow, obscured by blackish centers of scales: behind 
this a diffuse blackish area; breast vermiculated with blue 
and yellowish; a blackish bar covering most of head, be- 
hind which the opercles and nape are yellowish; jaws 
pale bluish; dorsal orange, vermiculate with sky blue, 
the edge bright sky blue, below which is orange; caudal 
orange, vermiculated with sky blue, the edge orange, the 
very margin blackish. Anal blackish, vermiculated with 
sky blue; pectorals light orange, marked with grayish 
blue. Ventrals largely blue-black, tipped with orange, 
the spine bluish. 
Family TEUTHIDID. 
186. Teuthis crestonis Jordan & Starks n. sp. Bar- 
BERO Necro. Plate xlvii. 
Common in the Astillero and in rocky places about the 
islands. Also obtained by Dr. Gilbert in 1881 at Mazat- 
lanand Panama. These specimens having been destroyed 
by fire, have never been described, and were provision- 
ally and incorrectly referred to the West Indian species 
Teuthis tractus (bahianus ), from which this species dif- 
fers in a few respects. 
lewd. 24°5 depth i. “Dlx 20:-A. Ill; 24>\‘snout 
1% in head; eye 3%; pectoral equal to head; caudal 4 
longer than head; longest dorsal spine equal longest soft 
ray, 1% in head; ventral 14 in head. ' 
Body deep and compressed, the anterior profile steep, 
convex before eye; caudal lunate, the upper ray 4 longer 
than middle one, ventrals very long. 
Body slaty brown, mottled with gray but without bands; 
dorsal with a bluish gray band at base, then a bronze one, 
forking on soft dorsal inclosing a bluish gray band; five 
gray bands and four bronze ones on dorsal more or less 
distinct, especially in young; anal with five bluish gray 
