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yellow, obscured by blackish centers of scales; behind 

 this a diffuse blackish area ; breast vermiculated with blue 

 and yellowish; a blackish bar covering most of head, be- 

 hind which the opercles and nape are yellowish; jaws 

 pale bluish; dorsal orange, vermiculate with sky blue, 

 the edge bright sky blue, below which is orange; caudal 

 orange, vermiculated with sky blue, the edge orange, the 

 very margin blackish. Anal blackish, vermiculated with 

 sky blue; pectorals light orange, marked with grayish 

 blue. Ventrals largely blue -black, tipped with orange, 

 the spine bluish. 



Family TEUTHIDID^. 



186. Teuthis crestonis Jordan & Starks n. sp. Bar- 

 BERO Negro. Plate xlvii. 



Common in the Astillero and in rocky places about the 

 islands. Also obtained by Dr. Gilbert in 1881 at Mazat- 

 lan and Panama. These specimens having been destroyed 

 by fire, have never been described, and were provision- 

 ally and incorrectly referred to the West Indian species 

 Teuthis ti'actiis (bahianus), from which this species dif- 

 fers in a few respects. 



Head 31^; depth i|; D. IX, 26; A. Ill, 24; snout 

 i^ in head; eye '^Y^; pectoral equal to head; caudal \ 

 longer than head; longest dorsal spine equal longest soft 

 ray, i;^ in head; ventral i| in head. 



Body deep and compressed, the anterior profile steep, 

 convex before eye ; caudal lunate, the upper ray ]A^ longer 

 than middle one, ventrals very long. 



Body slaty brown, mottled with gray but without bands ; 

 dorsal with a bluish gray band at base, then a bronze one, 

 forking on soft dorsal inclosing a bluish gray band; five 

 gray bands and four bronze ones on dorsal more or less 

 distinct, especially in young ; anal with five bluish gray 



