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Osburn and Nichols, Shore Fishes from Lower California. 



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orbital 2.4; maxillary not quite reaching front of eye, 3.5 in head; preorbital 1.5 in 

 eye. Gill rakers short and stout, about 12 on lower limb of arch, 3 in eye. Dorsal 

 and anal fins each with a basal sheath of scales; soft fins densely scaled. Second 

 anal spine longest, 3.8 in head, longer and stouter than the first and third which 

 are about 4.7 in head; when depressed the second spine reaches about to the tip of 



Fig. 1 1 . Hermosilla robusla sp. nov. 



the third. Ventrals 1.5 in head, reaching slightly more than half way to the origin of 

 the anal. 



Color in spirits dusky, somewhat paler below, lacking the cross bands of azurea; 

 the fins all dusky; a silvery stripe below eye extending backward on opercle; an 

 intense black blotch in axil of pectoral; the black mark at angle of opercle narrower 

 than in azurea. 



Type Xo. 5210, American Museum of Natural History, Tiburon I., April 12, 15 

 inches long. 



Besides the type we have another specimen 14 inches long from Carmen 

 I., April 3, which agrees with it in all essentials. The two differ notably 

 from specimens of H. azurea, from the places listed under that species, in 

 the following points; noticeably greater depth in specimens of the same 

 length; the stouter gill rakers; ventral fins not extending so far backward, 

 and the absence of vertical bars on the bodv. 



Kyphosus analogus (Gill). 



San Josef I., March 31; Carmen I., April 3; Mulege, April 4; Tiburon 

 I., April 11, and Santa Catalina I., April 16, a number of specimens 

 seined. 



