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compressed; snout long, slender, depressed. Maxillary with fine teeth; 

 rictus long. Branchiostegals 4. Body compressed, slender, with trans- 

 verse streaks. Scales inconspicuous; 1 lateral line. Pectoral large, un- 

 armed. Dorsal short, well backward, lower posteriorly; caudal sub- 

 bifurcate. Color white, the dorsal edged with darker. Kamchatka. 

 (Pallas.) 



If we can trust the description, this fish would seem to represent a dis- 

 tinct genus of AmmodytidcK, characterized by the presence of ventral fins, 

 but it may be that the account is erroneous in this regard and that Pallas 

 had in mind Ammodytes personatus. (septem, seven ; pinna, fin.) 



Ammodytes septipinnis, PALLAS, Rosso- Aaiat., in, 1811, Kamchatka. 



Page 833. Ammodytes alascanus is not separable from A. personatus. 



Page 839. Caulolepis lonc/idena occurs also in the Pacific, specimens hav- 

 ing been collected by the Albatross at Cortez Banks, off San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia, in 1896. 



Page 84 7. Add: 



1 2:iO(a). MIEIPRISTIS CLARIONENSIS, Gilbert. 



Head 3 in length; depth 2f. D. X-I, 14; A. IV, 12; scales 3$-l-7. 

 Least depth of caudal peduncle length of snout and eye. Greatest 

 (oblique) diameter of eye 2-J in head. Least interorbital width equaling 

 length of snout, 4 in head. Mouth less oblique than in related species, 

 the line of upper jaw with a more pronounced double curve. Lower jaw 

 the longer, with well-developed symphyseal knob. Teeth finely villiform, 

 very slightly enlarged toward middle of both jaws; wide patches of simi- 

 lar teeth on head of vomer and on palatine bones. Length of maxillary 

 (measured from front of upper jaw) very slightly (about 2 1 ,,) less than 

 length of snout and eye. Color before immersion in spirits, reddish, the 

 upper parts dusky, especially on top of head and on the margins of the 

 scales ; evident horizontal dusky streaks between the rows of scales ; oper- 

 cular membrane blackish; fins all light, without dark markings. Differ- 

 ing from all known American species of Myripristis in having 3 series of 

 scales between the lateral line and the base of the spinous dorsal, instead 

 of 2. Length 6 inches. Revillagigedo Islands; only the type known. 

 Myripristis clarionensis, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 441, pi. 69, Clarion Island, 

 Revillagigedo Archipelago. (Type, No. 47746. Coll. Dr. Gilbert.) 



Page 852. Insert the following description by Jordan & Rutter of 

 Holocentrus marlanw, based upon a specimen 6 inches long from Jamaica : 



Head 2| ; depth 3 in length ; eye 2 in head. D. XI, 13 ; A. IV, 9 ; scales 

 4-45-7. Dorsal outline much more curved than ventral; mouth low, but 

 little oblique, the lower jaw projecting and entering upper profile; max- 

 illary to below middle of eye; eye large, lower margin of orbit cut by a 

 line connecting tip of snout and upper base of pectoral; angle of opercle 

 high, higher than top of pupil, with 3 sharp teeth, small teeth along the 

 margin next the subopercle; subopercle long and narrow, dentate near 

 upper end; preopercle very finely serrate, with a strong spine at angle; a 

 single row of scales on opercle along margin of preopercle; suborbital 



