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HELLER AND SNODGRASS 



Named for Captain Wm. P. Noyes, the sailing master of the ex- 

 pedition. 



MEASUREMENTS OF Scarus noyesi. 



PONTINUS STRIGATUS sp. nov. 



Type. Cat. No. 6343, Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 

 Wenman Island. 



Diagnosis. Snout and maxillary scaled ; tentacles short or want- 

 ing on head ; preopercle with four spines, upper with a supplemental 

 spine at base, humeral spine single; last dorsal spine much longer 

 than the eleventh ; pectoral rays eighteen, extending past beginning of 

 anal ; lateral line with twenty-four pores ; head two and five eighths ; 

 eye three and one sixth. Color bright red, streaked and spotted with 

 olive-brown. 



Description of the Type. Head two and five eighths in length ; 

 depth three and one fourth ; eye three and one sixth in head ; inter- 

 orbital nine and one half ; maxillary two ; snout three and one sixth. 

 D. XII, 10 ; A. Ill, 5; P. 18. 



Eye large, three and one sixth times in length of head. Snout 

 short, equaling diameter of eye in length ; interorbital region deeply 

 concave, narrow, width three times in eye ; occipital flat, bordered by 

 low spines ; nape rising obliquely from occiput. Paired nasal, pre- 

 ocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic and parietal spines present ; 

 nape with two pairs of nuchal spines ; humeral and paroccipital spines 

 single ; suborbital carina with three spines ; preopercle border armed 

 with four spines below angle, the first largest and with a supple- 

 mental spine at its base, the third spine larger than second ; opercle 

 with two broad flat spines, one situated at the angle. Head with short 

 filaments at the bases of some of the spines, other filaments wanting. 

 Maxillary extending to the vertical from middle of pupil, length one 



