Bulletin ^ 7 , United States .Vational Museum. 
a little in front of second dorsal. _ Whole head, excejit jireocnlar region, 
scaled like the body, the scales ctenoid. 
Known from 20 examples from lUI to 19t mm. long, from Lower Calif«)r- 
nia, south of La Paz. 
(Named for the collector of the type, M. L«H)n l>ignct.) 
Xeomugil diyiieti, Vaillant, Bull. Soc. Pliilom., l\', 188a-lS94 (.June, 1894), 73, torrent in the 
Sierra de las Cacachilas de Santa Cruz, Lower California. 
Page 903. In the description of Seriola hilatidi for ‘‘A. I, 27” read 
“A. 1,21.” 
Page 962. Centrolophidn' can not maintained as a distinct family. It 
belongs with the Stromuteido'. 
Page 1038. After Hadropterua scicrus sernila, insert: 
H.tDUOBTEia s .lUXINKR KIE.XSIS, Everni.mn 
Head 3.7.7; depth 6; eye 4; snout 4.2; in.axillary 3.25; mandible 2.75; 
interorbital 6; pectoral 1.25; ventral 1.3; 1>. XIV, 13; A. 11, 8: scales 
7-01-10. 
Body rather long, slender, and snbterete; caudal jtednncle somewhat 
compressed, its least width one-half its least depth; head r.ather long, 
snout pointed ; month moderately large, <d>li(|ne, maxillary reaching ]»ast 
anterior part of eye, lower jaw included; eye rather large, slightly above 
axis of body; interorbital moderately wide, nearly Hat; gill-membranes 
free from each other and from the isthmus; opercle with a rather long 
tla]> and stout spines; ]»remaxillaries not jjrotractile ; tins rather large; 
distance from origin of spinous dorsal to tip of snout slightly greater than 
base of spinous dorsal or nearly twice base of .soft dorsal; longest dorsal 
spine 2.25 in head; .soft dorsal higher than sj)inons portion, 2 in head, the 
free edge gently curved; origin of anal under that of soft dorsal, its base 
2.1 in head; caudal rounded or slightly emarginate. 
Sc.ales linn and strongly ctenoid, lateral line conij)lete and straight, be- 
ginning over oi)ercnlar spine; top of head and an oblong area on nape 
naked; space in front of si)iuons dorsal with small embedded scales; o])cr- 
cle with about 7 rows of scales; cheek with a few small embedded scales, 
breast naked, exce})t 2 or 3 ]»artially embedded scales on median line; one 
large scale between ventrals; belly naked anteriorly, but with about 10 
enlarged, stellate scales ]>osteriorly ; sj>ace between ventrals broad, e(|ual 
to width of base of ventral; preopercle smooth. 
Color essentially the same as in //. scUrioi; mottled and vermicnlated 
with light and dark brown or blackish, the middle line of back with 
about 0 large, roundish, dark, conllnent areas, each surrounded by a 
wavy, whitish line; middle of side with about 7 large, conllnent dark 
spots, the anterior 2 largest and longest, the third small, the fourth large, 
ami the remaining 3 jnogressively smaller; under parts ycdlowish white; 
top of head dark; .a narrow whitish line around upper ]>osterior j>art of 
orbit; a broad black line downwanl from eye: ni)per part of preopercle 
and nearly whole opercle darlc, each dusted on lower p.art; cheek dusted 
with line, dark s[»ecks; an irregular i)ale area at anterior end of lateral 
