SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 373 



Chatham ; Duncan, and Hood. At Cocos it was not seen. It is 

 known from Clarion, Socorro and San Benedicto islands of the 

 Revillagigedo Archipelago. 



76. PRONOTOGRAMMUS MULTIFASCIATUS Gill. 



Pronotogrammus multifasciatus GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 81, 

 Cape San Lucas. JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 i, 1226, 1896. JORDAN & MCGREGOR, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm. for 

 1898, 278 (Clarion Island). 



Anthias imiltifasciatus ; BOULENGER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 2dEd., I, 323, 

 1895. GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxiv, Rep. Expl. U. S. S. 

 Albatross during 1891, xxvi, Fishes, 47, 1899. 



Range. Cape San Lucas, Lower California ; Revillagigedo and 

 Cocos islands. 



Taken by Mr. R. C. McGregor at Clarion Island, and dredged near 

 Cocos Island by the Albatross (Agassiz Expedition, 1891) in 66 

 fathoms. 



77. RYPTICUS BICOLOR (Valenciennes). 



Smecticus bicolor VALENCIENNES, Voyage de la Venus, Poissons, 307, pi. I, 



fig. 2, 1855, Galapagos Islands. 

 Rypticus bicolor, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., i, 



1231, 1896. 



Range. Galapagos Archipelago. 



This species is known only from the description and figure of Va- 

 lenciennes, whose specimen was taken at the Galapagos Islands by 

 the Venus. We did not meet with the species. 



Family PRIACANTHID^E. 

 78. PRIACANTHUS CRUENTATUS (Lacepede). 



Labrus cruentatus LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., m, 522, 1800, Martinique. 



Priacanthus carolinus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer. , 

 in, Addenda, 2858, 1898. JORDAN & MCGREGOR, Rep. U. S. Fish 

 Comm. for 1898 (1899), 278 (Socorro and Clarion islands). 



Priacanthus cruentatus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer. , 

 i, 1238, 1896. 



Range. West Indies; Revillagigedo, Cocos and Galapagos 

 islands. 



We have 14 specimens of a Priacanthus taken at the Galapagos 

 and Cocos islands, which we cannot distinguish from the West In- 

 dian species, P. cruentatus. It was most abundant at Cocos Island 

 where most of our specimens were obtained, but we have i speci- 

 men from Tagus Cove, Albemarle, and 2 from Barrington of the 

 Galapagos. We have further compared these specimens with those 

 Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., January, 1905. 



