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38. Stolephorus lyolepis Evermann & Marsh, new species. 
Head 4.3; depth 6.9; eye 4.6; snout 4.2; maxillary 1.4; mandible 1.4; interorbital 4.4; D. 12 to 14; 
A. 18 to 20. Body slender and compressed, the dorsal and ventral outlines nearly alike, little arched; 
caudal peduncle gently tapering; no seme evident; snout not greatly produced; maxillary with free end 
rounded, reaching beyond root of mandible to edge of preopercle, armed with line teeth; lower jaw with 
minute teeth, smaller than those of maxillary; anal inserted under last dorsal ray; scales deciduous. 
Color in spirits: Flesh-color, without silvery band, a lateral longitudinal row of small black pigment 
dots, which are stellate under a lens, usually more numerous posteriorly ; a single row of several larger, 
circular black spots across opercle, and a number scattered on top of head; a row of black spots at base of 
anal and a few small black blotches about base of caudal rays; peritoneum with rows of black dots, these 
showing faintly through the flesh on the side near ventral outline between pectoral and ventral. 
This species is related to S. curtus and S. poeyi, both Pacific coast species, from each of which it 
differs apparently in the fewer anal rays. Thirty-seven specimens of nearly uniform size were collected 
atCulebra, February 10, of which the type (No. 49528, U. S. N. M.) is 1.5 inches long. 
Fig. 13. — Stolephorus lyolepis. 
Fig. 14. — Stolephorus garmani. 
39. Stolephorus garmani Evermann & Marsh. 
Head 3.2; depth 3.3; eye 3.5; snout 5.5; maxillary 1.7; mandible 1.7; interorbital 5; I>. 14; A. 23; 
pectoral 2; ventral 3.5; caudal 1.3; scales 42,-9. 
Body comparatively deep and strongly compressed; belly not strongly trenchant, without 
serrulations; snout thick, much projecting; maxillary reaching nearly to root of mandible, very finely 
and weakly serrate; eye large; tip of lower jaw reaching vertical from front of eye; distance from 
lower posterior angle of cheek to vertical from posterior margin of opercle much less than from same 
point to eye; dorsal inserted far in advance of anal, just behind insertion of ventrals, midway between 
anterior edge of pupil and base of caudal. 
Color in spirits: Back dark to near the median line, below this somewhat reddish; rest of body 
