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Ophioscion perissa (HeLttER & Snoparass). 
Plate 4, fig. 3. 
Sciaena perissa Hever & SNoperass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1903, 5, p. 197. 
One specimen, No. 3253, 7z inches long from Wreck Bay, Chatham Island. 
Micropogon altipinnis Ginruer. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 149. Gitperr & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 132. 
One specimen 332 inches long from Panama market. 
Dorsal XI-I, 21; anal II, 8. 
Polyclemus goodei (GitBeErt). 
Gizert & Srarxs, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 135, pl. 20, fig. 40, 40a. 
Paralonchurus goodei GiLBERT, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1480. 
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One specimen 23 inches long from Panama market. 
Eques fuscovittatus, sp. nov. 
Plate 5, fig. 1. 
One specimen, the Type, No. 65494, U.S. N. M., 7.37 inches long from 
Acapulco. 
Length to base of caudal 158 mm.; head 3.16 in length without caudal; 
depth 2.90; eye 3.84 in head; snout 3.33; maxillary 2.63; interorbital 4.16; 
dorsal X—I, 37; anal II, 7; scales about 75; gillrakers 3+14. 
Color: centres of scales on body and head grayish, their edges brownish, 
giving the specimen a brownish gray appearance; seven narrow longitudinal 
dark brown stripes, alternating with interrupted stripes of the same color on 
body; lowermost entire stripe runs from just below eye to base of last anal ray 
and extends faintly on lower edge of caudal peduncle; second beginning at 
lower posterior margin of eye, extending across upper base of pectoral, fading 
out on caudal peduncle; third beginning at middle of posterior margin of eye 
and extending to middle of base of caudal; fourth extending from upper margin 
of eye to base of last ray of dorsal; fifth extending from front of nape to base of 
fifth soft dorsal ray, thence along base of dorsal; sixth originating on shoulder 
and following a more or less irregular course to base of seventeenth dorsal ray, 
thence along base, joining fifth at 25th ray; seventh commencing on front of 
nape in common with fifth and following an irregular course to base of ninth 
dorsal ray, thence along base of fin joining sixth; a dark stripe extending along 
