366 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



Our adult example has the profile of the head rising almost vertical 

 from the snout, forming a large, rounded prominent angle above a 

 point midway between snout and nostril, from which it runs steeply 

 upward and backward to front of dorsal fin, which latter arises above 

 posterior margin of eye ; maxillary reaching halfway from pupil to 

 posterior rim of orbit. Head 4^; depth 5^; D. 56; A. I, 25. 



The color of the specimen when fresh was as follows : Above 

 greenish-golden, below yellow, everywhere except on belly and throat 

 spotted with purple spots as large as a pea and placed about one inch 

 apart; head yellowish; iris black with a golden blotch on the ball 

 above the pupil ; pectoral fins purplish above, yellow beneath and with 

 tips purple ; ventrals yellow below, deep green above ; dorsal purplish, 

 spotted with violet ; anal yellow, with a row of purple spots ; caudal 

 greenish. 



59. CORYPH^NA EQUISETIS Linnaeus. 



Coryphana equisetis LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 261, 1758. JORDAN & 

 EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 953, 1896. JORDAN & 

 MCGREGOR, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1898 (1899), 276 (San Bene- 

 dicto Island). 



This species, like the last, is one of wide tropical distribution. Jor- 

 dan and McGregor report one specimen from San Benedicto Island. 

 Their specimen, however, is a young one, 9 inches long, and it may 

 be doubted that it belongs to this species rather than to C. hippurus. 



Family NOMEIME. 



60. GOBIOMORUS GRONOVII (Gmelin). 



Gobius gronovii, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., xin, 1205, 1788, Tropical America. 

 Nomeus gronovii, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 

 949, 1896. 



Range. Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. 



We have a few small specimens, about 35 mm. in length, taken 

 with Portuguese men-of-war (Physalia} at about 7 26' N. ; 100 

 36' W. 



Family KUHLinXE. 

 61. KUHLIA T^NIURA (Cuv. & Val.). 



Dules taniura CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 114, 1829. 



Kuhlia arge JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 159, Chat- 

 ham Island. JORDAN & MCGREGOR, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1898 

 (1899), 277 (Clarion and Socorro islands). JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes 

 North and Mid. Amer., i, 1014, 1896. 



Kuhlia tceniura, BOULENGER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 2d Ed. i, 39, 1895. 



Range. Indian Ocean, East Indies, Polynesia, Revillagigedo, 

 Cocos and Galapagos islands. 



