154 THE SHORE FISHES. 
Alticus atlanticus (Cuvier & VALENCIENNES). 
Snopcrass & HEtiEr, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1905, 6, p. 419. 
Salarias atlanticus Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1836, 11, p. 238 (321). 
Five specimens 1 to 5 inches long from Chatham Island, shore. M. C. Z. 
29447 (2 specimens). 
In the smallest specimen the cross-bars on the body are distinct; the upper 
two thirds and the inner base of pectoral is much lighter than the ground color. _ 
Alticus striatus (Quoy & Garrarp). 
Jorpan & SEALE, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 26, p. 423. 
Salarias striatus Quoy & Garmarp, Cuv. & Vat. Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1836, 11, p. 228 (309). 
Two specimens, M. C. Z. 29436, 273 and 2x4 inches long from Easter Island, 
shore. 
The large female specimen with eggs gives the following measurements: — 
head 4.41 in length; eye 4.80 in head; interorbital 2 in eye; ocular tentacle, 
acutely triangular, fringed on one side; nasal cirrus palmate; a simple cirrus on — 
each side of nape at junction of occiput; upper lip with lobate margin; large 
hooked teeth posteriorly in each jaw; dorsal XII—15, not extending on to the 
caudal; anal 16, with one papilla in front; no crest. 
Color in alcohol, head light brownish, with purplish area on upper posterior 
part of cheek; a faint dusky, short band-like area at corner of mouth; broad 
faint dusky bar from front part of each eye across lip, and one midway between; 
an oblong black spot on side of head, behind eye and directed upward and back- 
ward, apparently ocellated in life; no bands or spots evident on throat or gill- 
membranes; faint brownish saddle-like bar across back at insertion of spinous 
dorsal, not extending down to pectoral; seven pairs of dark brown bars, some- 
what interrupted, on the side of the body, the fourth pair situated under the 
notch between the dorsals, one of the pairs extending down from posterior part 
of spinous dorsal, another from origin of soft dorsal; pectoral translucent, punc- 
tulate with dusky, most intense on lower rays; ventrals pale, finely punctulate 
with dusky; spinous dorsal translucent, finely punctulate with dusky, in large — 
rather indefinite spots, approximating two rows, those near the outer margin 
to some extent coalescing and forming an irregular dusky inframarginal band, 
margin pale; soft dorsal translucent, finely and faintly punctulate, about three 
blackish spots on each ray forming about nine or ten downward and backward 
series or partial series of spots; anal similar in appearance to spinous dorsal; 
caudal plain translucent with about seven small blackish spots on each ray 
