37 2 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



length of snout from nostril 3f in head ; mouth not very oblique ; 

 maxillary i\ in head ; posterior edge of preopercle finely serrated, the 

 serrations coarser on the lower limb, first dorsal spine shortest, a little 

 more than \ of eye ; second J longer than first ; third longest, about 

 equal to maxillary; the following spines rapidly shorter to seventh, 

 beyond which they are about equal ; caudal peduncle about twice eye 

 in depth ; posterior margin of caudal fin slightly lunate, upper angle a 

 little prolonged, the lower rounded. 



Color. Above dark olive-brown ; belly grayish ; several large gray- 

 ish spots along sides (a very characteristic mark of the species, absent 

 in P. humeralis) ; opercles bronze-yellow, lower lip light yellow ; pec- 

 torals bronze above, dusky beneath ; dorsal spines dusky, membrane 

 saffron ; caudal grayish dusky, angles with orange tips ; posterior rays 

 of anal orange-tipped, the rest grayish dusky; ventrals pale dusky 

 with rays orange-tipped. 



73. PRIONODES FASCIATUS Jenyns. 



Prionodes fasciatus JENYNS, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 46, 1840, Chatham Island. 

 JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 1213, 1896. 

 Serranus psittacinus, BOULENGER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 2d Ed., 295. 



Range. Pacific Coast of Mexico, Panama, Revillagigedo Islands, 

 Galapagos Islands (Chatham, Hood, Indefatigable, Albemarle). 



74. PRIONODES STILBOSTIGMA Jordan & Bollman. 



Prionodes stilbostigma JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 158 

 (Galapagos Archipelago). JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and 

 Mid. Amer., i, 1216, 1896. 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



One specimen dredged in 45 fathoms by the Albatross (i887-'SS) 

 near Hood Island, o 50' S. ; 89 36' W. 



75. PARANTHIAS FURCIFER (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Serranus furcifer CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., u, 264, 1828, 



Brazil. 

 Serranus colonus VALENCIENNES, Voyage Venus, Zool., 300, pi. 2, fig. i, 



1846, Galapagos Islands. 

 Par ant hias furcifer, BOULENGER, Cat. Fishes, Brit. Mus., 2d Ed., i, 273. 



JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 1221, 1896. 



Range. Both coasts of tropical America; Revillagigedo and 

 Galapagos islands. 



This fish is very abundant about the Galapagos Islands. We have 

 specimens from Tagus Cove, Albemarle; James; Charles; Seymour; 



