37^ SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



Known only from the Galapagos Islands. Our specimens from 

 Tagus Cove, Turtle Point and Elizabeth Bay, Albemarle ; Tower ; 

 South Seymour and Mangrove Point, Narboro. The species is gen- 

 erally found in large numbers when met with at all, forming schools 

 of great size. We did not often obtain specimens, but sometimes 

 with i discharge of dynamite we killed many hundreds of them. 



83. XENICHTHYS AGASSIZI Steindachner. 



Xenichthys agassizi STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, in, 6, 1875, Galapagos 

 Islands. JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer. , 11, 

 1287, 1898. 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



This fish, like the last, which it resembles, is known only from the 

 Galapagos Archipelago. It is rather rare. We obtained specimens 

 only at Tagus Cove, Albemarle, and at Mangrove Point on the east 

 side of Narboro. 



Family H^EMULID^). 

 84. ANISOTREMUS SURINAMENSIS (Bloch). 



Lutjanus surinamensis BLOCK, Ichthyol., 253, 1791, Surinam. 



Anisotremus bilineatus, JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 



181 (Hood and Indefatigable islands). 

 Anisotremus interruptus (in part), JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and 



Mid. Amer., n, 1319, 1898. 

 Anisotremus surinamensis, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. 



Amer., n, 1318, 1898. 



Range. Eastern shore of tropical America; Galapagos Islands. 



The 2 species, Anisotremus surinamensis and A. interruptus, 

 are distinguishable from each other by scarcely any other character 

 than the presence in A. surinamensis generally of 9 rows of scales in 

 an oblique series from the first dorsal spine to the lateral line, and the 

 presence generally of only 7 in A. interruptus. The i species in- 

 habits the eastern shores of tropical America and the other the western 

 shores and the Revillagigedo Islands. The Galapagos specimens verv 

 curiously appear to belong to the former species rather than to the 

 latter, the number of scales in an oblique row in the majority of our 

 specimens being 9, in a few 8. This same fact is stated by Jordan 

 and Evermann as being true of their specimens. They, however re- 

 gard the Galapagos specimens as belonging to the west coast species. 



Our specimens are from Tagus Cove and Elizabeth Bay, Albe- 

 marle ; Charles and Seymour. The species was taken by the Albatross 

 also at Hood and Indefatigable. 



