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upper rays, rest bright red, upper angle black-tipped ; outer rays of 

 ventrals purple, inner green, maroon-tipped; iris golden and red. 



Color of adult female in life. Above olive, scales on sides with 

 lake-red centers and olive borders ; 2 dark brown stripes on sides, 

 2 spots of same color on caudal peduncle, an olive maxillary stripe; 

 belly lighter lake-red, a narrow faint purplish-olive border on scales ; 

 snout mottled pinkish and olive ; iris whitish with inner yellow ring ; 

 first and second dorsal spines bluish with red tips, others lake-red, 

 membrane Indian-red ; last rays of soft dorsal orange, lighter at tips ; 

 anal like dorsal ; caudal orange ; peduncle olive yellow ; pectoral 

 light lake-red ; spine of ventral purplish-red, rays with crimson tips, 

 fin lake and olive at base. 



The males of different ages vary much in shape and in contour of 

 the fins. The smallest specimens, 270 mm. long, much resemble in 

 shape the females. The snout is pointed, the swelling before the eye 

 very slight and the angle of the caudal but little produced ; profile 

 gradually rising from snout to first dorsal except for slight rise before 

 eyes; soft dorsal and anal prolonged as far as base of caudal ; tips of 

 pectorals each with a large prominent black spot just as in large speci- 

 mens. As age increases the elevation before the eye becomes larger 

 and the angles of the caudal and soft anal and dorsal increase. The 

 largest specimens, 400 mm. long, have the snout very blunt, a large 

 thick swelling before the eye having, in some specimens, the front 

 surface very slightly receding. The soft anal and soft dorsal pro- 

 longed posteriorly into long streamers reaching considerably past the 

 median rays of the caudal, that of the anal generally longer than that 

 of the dorsal. The caudal angles are also greatly produced and are 

 tapering. 



All of our Galapagos specimens differ from a specimen from Clarion 

 Island in having the snout blunter and the hump on the face smaller. 

 Also the flap on the lower lip is smaller in most of our specimens, 

 but this character is very variable and is not dependent on age in 

 some its width is but little more than half the diameter of the eye, 

 while in others it is wider than the eye. 



113. BODIANUS ECLANCHERI (Valenciennes). 



Cossyphus eclancheri VALENCIENNES, Voyage de la Venus, Zool., 340, Poiss., 

 pi. 8, fig. 2, plates 1846, text 1855, Galapagos Islands. 



Harpe eclancheri, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., n, 

 1583, 1898, ibid. Check-list, 412. 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



