3172 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



anal spines small, increasing to the third, which is 5 in head; soft anal 

 )ow and scaly; caudal almost completely scaled, deeply emarginate, the 

 median rays less than half the external ones; caudal peduncle \ times 

 longer than deep ; scales above lateral line in very oblique series. Grayish 

 above, with oblique brown lines, somewhat undulating; silvery below. 

 Length 22 cm. One specimen from Bay of Santa Elena, Ecuador. (Bou- 

 lenger.) (Named for the type locality.) 

 Hcemulon helence, BOULENGER, Bollettino del Mus. di Zool. ed Anat. Comp. della Uuiv. di 



Torino, Vol. xiv, Xo. 335, 3, Feb. 15, 1899, Bay of St. Elena, Ecuador. (Coll. Dr. 



Enrico Festa.) 



Page 1334. After Pomadasis ramosus (Poey), insert the following: 

 1706 (a). POMADASIS LABRACIFORME (Boulenger). 



Head 3; depth 3i; eye 4; snout slightly longer than mandible, by 

 diameter of eye, which is little more than interorbital width ; maxillary 

 reaching anterior of eye; D. XIII, 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 8 or 9-68-22; 

 teeth very small; 2 pores in chin; preopercle strongly serrate, strongest 

 at angle; head scale* 1 , except snout and lips; gill-rakers 13 on lower arm 

 of first arch, the longest equaling length of gill-filaments. Dorsal spine 

 strong, the fifth longest, 2 in head, from which they decrease to next to 

 last, which is 44- in head, and a little shorter than last; soft dorsal scaled 

 at base, its longest rays a little shorter than longest spine; pectoral H in 

 head, scarcely shorter than ventrals; second anal spine very strong, 3 in 

 head, third 2 in head; longest anal rays shorter than anal spine; caudal 

 peduncle longer than deep ; scales arranged in series scarcely oblique above 

 the lateral line, which has 54 pores. Color uniform silvery. Length 17 cm. 

 One specimen known, from the Bay of St. Elena, Ecuador. (Boulenger.) 

 (Labrus ; forma, form.) 



Pristipoma labraciforme, BOULENGER, Bollettino dei Mus. di Zool. ed Anat. Comp. della 

 Univ. di Torino, Vol. xiv, Xo. 335, 3, Feb. 15, 1899, Bay of Santa Elena, Ecuador. 

 (Coll. Dr. Enrico Festa.) 



Page 1351. After Calamus proridens, Jordan & Gilbert, insert: 

 1721 (a). CALAMUS KENDALLI, Evermann & Marsh. 

 (PLUM A.) 



Head 3.1; depth 2.1; eye 3.5; snout 1.5; maxillary 2.4; interorbital 3.5; 

 preorbital 2.1; D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 10; pectoral 1; ventral 1.8; caudal 1.3; 

 scales 7-53-16. 



Body deep, back strongly elevated, more so than in C. bajonado, but less- 

 than in C. calamus or C. proridens, the anterior profile a nearly regular 

 curve, lacking the abrupt nuchal elevation of those species; eye large, 

 larger than in C.proridens; 7 or 8 rows of scales on cheek; teeth about as 

 in C.proridens ; molars in 2 or more rows on sides, those of inner row much 

 the largest, those in front becoming more numerous and merging into 

 cardiform teeth, the most anterior of which, in each jaw, are somewhat 

 enlarged; in front of upper jaw are 2 much enlarged antrorse canines, 

 curved slighly upward; highest dorsal spine 2.7 in head, second anal 

 spine 4.6. 



