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HELLER AND SNODGRASS 



D. X, 33. First dorsal spine very short; second abruptly much 

 longer ; the fourth longest, two and one half in head ; posterior bor- 

 der of fin almost vertical, last spine longer than ninth. Second dorsal 

 fin low in front, gradually rising toward posterior end where border 

 curves abruptly downward ; the longest ray, the twenty-sixth, three in 

 head, about equal to second dorsal spine. Anal short, II, 8 ; second 

 spine two and one half in head ; first and second soft rays longest, two 

 in head, longer than fourth dorsal spine. Depth of caudal peduncle 

 a little less than three in head. Caudal fin gently rounded, middle 

 rays almost two in head. Upper rays of pectoral longest, one and 

 two fifths in head. 



Snout, subopercle, jaws and chin bare, rest of body covered with 

 small ctenoid scales ; small, irregularly arranged scales along lateral 

 line. 



Specimens of this species were secured at Tagus Cove and Eliza- 

 beth Bay, Albemarle Island and at Seymour Island. 



Coloration in Life. Above dusky-brown ; belly grayish ; lips 

 flesh-color ; fins dusky ; iris golden-brown. 



MEASUREMENTS OF Scicena perissa. 



AZURINA EUPALAMA sp. nov. 



pi. v. 



Type. Cat. No. 6352, Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 

 Hood Island. 



Diagnosis. Differs from A. hirundo in being more slender, in 

 having the lateral line more nearly straight, the tip of the snout 

 blunter, the interorbital space wider, the nape less elevated, the ven- 

 tral profile of the body more convex, it being more convex than the 

 upper, and in having the color olive and gray instead of blue. 



