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166. RUNULA AZALEA Jordan & Bollman. 



Runula azalea JORDAN BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 1889, 171, 

 Indefatigable Island. GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xin, 1890, 

 453 (Indefatigable Island). JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1896, 233, 

 pi. 37 (Indefatigable Island). JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North 

 and Mid. Amer., in, 2377, 1898. 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



One specimen taken at Barrington Island. Seen in tide-pools at 

 most of the other islands of the Galapagos and at Cocos Island. 



Our specimen differs somewhat in proportions and coloration from 

 the type. Length 37mm.; head 5 in length; depth yf; eye 3 in 

 head ; interorbital 3^-. 



Color in life. Above olive; the side with a bright golden band 

 as wide as the eye extending from snout to tail, below the stripe 

 grayish-blue ; belly bluish ; head and snout above dark olive, below 

 the level of the eye bluish like the lower part of the side ; a black 

 streak on caudal peduncle running through the fin ; dorsal fin golden 

 with a wide black band running through the middle; caudal fin red; 

 anal lighter red; pectoral yellowish; ventrals white; iris emerald, 

 teeth tawny-yellow. 



This specimen differs from those taken by the Albatross at Inde- 

 fatigable Island in the absence of dark transverse bars on the sides of 

 the body and in the lesser depth. 



167. ALTICUS ATLANTICUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Salarias atlanticus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 321, 1836, 



Madeira. 

 Rupiscartes atlanticus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 



in, 2397, 1898. 



Range. Both coasts of tropical America, north on the Pacific 

 side to Todos Santos; Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle, Nar- 

 boro, Charles and Duncan). 



Color in life. Above and on sides liver-brown ; the side with 7 

 or 8 dark brown transverse bars; the belly grayish ; an olive, black 

 centered ocellus behind the eye ; dorsal fin dark brown, red bordered ; 

 caudal medially brown, the upper rays red, lower yellow ; pectorals 

 and anal brown like the body ; ventrals like the belly in coloration ; 

 nuchal tentacles red ; iris pea-green. 



168. ALTICUS CHIOSTICTUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Salarias chiostictus JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, .363, 1883, Mazatlan, 



Mexico. 

 Entomacrodus chiostictus, JORDAN & McGREGOR, U. S. Fish Com. Rep. 1898, 



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



North and Mid. Amer., in, 2398, 1898. 



