154 ALBATROSS EXPLORATIONS, FISHES JORDAN AND ROLLMAN. 



Type : No. -, U. S. National Museum. 



Hab.— Pacific Ocean, off coast of Colombia, 8° 47' N., 79° 29' 30" W.; 

 dredged in 14 fathoms, at Station 2801. 



Description. — Head 1\ in trunk, 5^ in tail ; interorbital area 2 in the 

 large eye; snout 4| in head, very soft; eye very large, 7 in head, If 

 in snout; cleft of mouth 3^ in head, extending slightly behind middle 

 of eye ; lower jaw considerably shorter than upper. 



Body slender; tail compressed, 2| times as long as head and trunk. 



Pectoral long and narrow, 2-f in head, If times as long as gill-slit ; 

 dorsal beginning slightly in advance of root of pectoral. 



Color olivaceous, upper parts of head and body with numerous fine 

 black dots ; a silvery shade across opercles and below lateral line. 



Peritoneum bright silvery, giving the belly a pale color. Dorsal and 

 anal with a narrow black margin, below which are a few small spots ; 

 pectoral pale. 



This species is known from a single young example, 9 inches long, 

 dredged at Station 2801, between the Galapagos and Panama. 



7. Ophichthus evionthas sp. nov. 



Diagnosis. — Approaching Ophichthus oonapartii (Kaup), but having 

 the head, body, and tail covered with numerous round or oval black 

 spots, separated by a yellowish ground-color, and which, at about 15 

 places, are larger, and tend to form cross-bands. 



Type: No. 41,476, U. S. National Museum. 



Hab. — Hood Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Description. — Head 4f in trunk ; about 8 to 10 coarse wrinkles on 

 opercles and throat; snout 4^ in head; eye small, 2§ in snout, much 

 nearer angle of mouth than tip of snout; cleft of mouth 24 in head, 

 extending slightly beyond eye; lower jaw considerably shorter than 

 upper; teeth small, subequal, acute, recurved, all except anterior 

 vomerine uniserial. 



Body rather stout ; tail very slightly longer than trunk. 



Pectoral quite small, 9£ in head, equal to eye, and slightly shorter 

 than gill-opening ; dorsal beginning about twice length of pectoral 

 behind tip of latter. 



Color, light olive, the entire body covered with numerous round or 

 oval black spots, which are separated by a yellowish ground-color, at 

 intervals. In about 15 places these spots are considerably enlarged, 

 tending to form dusky cross-bands. At these points the spots extend 

 farther down on the belly ; spots most numerous and smallest on head, 

 especially across jaws, behind angle of mouth, and across opercles ; 

 those which tend to form cross-bands on body and tail are the largest, 

 especially the lowermost, which are brownish and more diffused ; an 

 irregular series along middle line of belly, this becoming a double 

 series along base of anal; lower side of head profusely spotted. 



Pectoral with two obscure spots on its anterior side; dorsal with 3 



