LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED AT THE REVILLAGIGEDO ARCHI- 

 PELAGO AND NEIGHBORING ISLANDS. 



By David Starr Jordan and Richard Crittenden McGregor. 



In March, 1897, the schooner H. G. Wahlberg, Oapt. A. W. Anthony, 

 set out from San Diego, California, on a collecting expedition to the 

 islands off the west coast of Mexico, the principal purpose being the 

 exploration of Clarion aud Socorro, which islands, with other smaller 

 ones, compose the Revillagigedo Archipelago. Mr. R. C. McGregor, a 

 student in zoology in Leland Stanford Junior University, went with 

 the vessel as assistant naturalist. Among other things he obtained a 

 fine collection of fishes, most of them secured by the use of dynamite 

 among the rocks of Clarion and Socorro islands. A very few of the 

 fishes were taken in an improvised seine; no dredge was used. 



Collections were made at the following localities: Eusenada, March 

 6; Todos Santos Island, March 10; San Martin Island, March 12; San 

 Gerouimo Island, March 15; Guadalupe Island, March 23; San Benito 

 Island, March 27; Cerros Island, April 4; Abreojos Point, April 19; San 

 Jose del Cabo, April 23. Finally, nearly the whole month of May was 

 devoted to collecting about San Benedicto, Socorro, and Clarion islands. 



Six new species were obtained, as follows : 



Myrichthy8 pantostigmius, Clarion Island, 5710, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 

 Zalocys stilbe, Clarion Island, 11996, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 

 Apogon atricaudus, Socorro Island, 5708, L. S. .Jr. Univ. Mus. 

 Forcipiger Jlaris8imu8, Clarion Island, 5709, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 

 Cantherines carol w, Socorro Island, 11995, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 

 Azurina hirundo, Guadalupe Island, 5706, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 



These species are also described in Jordan & Evermaun's Fishes of 

 North America. 



The fauna of the outlying islands of Mexico and Ecuador contains a 



number of species properly belonging to the fauna of the East Indies. 



Few of these oriental types reach the coast of Mexico or Panama, the 



coast fauna in general being analogous to that of the West Indies. 



Among the forms not found along the mainland, and identical or nearly 



identical with East Indian species, are the following, those here recorded 



for the first time from American waters being printed in italics: 



Lycodoniis pictus. Kyphosus lutescens. Teuthis aliala. 



Caranx orthogranmms. Forcipiger flarissimus Malichthys bispinosus. 



Caranx lugubris. (longirostris). Xanthichthys mento. 



Kuhlia arge (tfeniura). Zanclus cornutus. Cantherines carolce (pardalis). 



Priacanthus carolinus. Teuthis triostegus. Ovoides setosus. 

 Evoplites viridis (kasmira). 



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