3166 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



a little in front of second dorsal. Whole head, except preocular region, 

 scaled like the body, the scales ctenoid. 



Known from 20 examples from 99 to 194 mm. long, from Lower Califor- 

 nia, south of La Paz. 



(Named for the collector of the type, M. Le"on Diguet.) 



Neomuyil digueti, VAILLANT, Bull. Soc. Philom., iv, 1883-1894 (June, 1894), 73, torrent in the 

 Sierra de las Cacachilas de Santa Cruz, Lower California. 



Page 903. In the description of Seriola lalandi for "A. I, 27" read 

 "A. 1,21.'; 



Page 962. Centrolophidce can not be maintained as a distinct family. It 

 belongs with the Stromateidce. 



Page 1038. After Hadropterus scierus serrnla, insert: 



HADROPTERUS MAXIXKUCKIEXSIS, Evermann 



Head 3. 75; depth 6; eye 4; snout 4.2; maxillary 3.25; mandible 2.75; 

 interorbital 6; pectoral 1.25; ventral 1.3; D. XIV, 13; A. II, 8; scales 

 7-61-10. 



Body rather long, slender, and subterete; caudal peduncle somewhat 

 compressed, its least width one-half its least depth; bead rather long, 

 snout pointed; mouth moderately large, oblique, maxillary reaching past 

 anterior part of eye, lower jaw included; eye rather large, slightly above 

 axis of body; interorbital moderately wide, nearly flat; gill-membranes 

 free from each other and from the isthmus; opercle with a rather loug 

 flap and stout spines; premaxillaries not protractile; fins rather large; 

 distance from origin of spinous dorsal to tip of snout slightly greater than 

 base of spinous dorsal or nearly twice base of soft dorsal; longest dorsal 

 spine 2.25 in head; soft dorsal higher than spinous portion, 2 in head, the 

 free edge gently curved; origin of anal under that of soft dorsal, its base 

 2.1 in head; caudal rounded or slightly emarginate. 



Scales firm and strongly ctenoid, lateral line complete and straight, be- 

 ginning over opercular spine; top of head and an. oblong area on nape 

 naked; space in front of spinous dorsal with small embedded scales; oper- 

 cle with about 7 rows of scales; cheek with a few small embedded scales, 

 breast naked, except 2 or 3 partially embedded scales on median line; one 

 large scale between veutrals; belly naked anteriorly, but with about 10 

 enlarged, stellate scales posteriorly; space between ventrals broad, equal 

 to width of base of ventral; preopercle smooth. 



Color essentially the same as in H. scierus; mottled and vermiculated 

 with light and dark brown or blackish, the middle line of back with 

 about 9 large, roundish, dark, confluent areas, each surrounded by a 

 wavy, whitish line; middle of side with about 7 large, confluent dark 

 spots, the anterior 2 largest and longest, the third small, the fourth large, 

 and the remaining 3 progressively smaller; under parts yellowish white; 

 top of head dark; a narrow whitish line around upper posterior part of 

 orbit; a broad black line downward from eye; upper part of preopercle 

 and nearly whole opercle dark, each dusted on lower part; cheek dusted 

 with fine, dark specks; an irregular pale area at anterior end of lateral 



