. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 216 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM colorless except for dusky points, tke anterior lobe often white; ventrals generally white; pectorals mostly colorless on outer side, largely dusky on inner side. The Mission furnished nine specimens, 75 to 270 mm. (57 to 197 mm. to base of caudal) long, collected at Puerto Pizarro, Sechura Bay, and Chilca Bay. There is also at hand a large specimen, 285 mm. long to base of caudal ( No. 77686), taken at Lobos de Tierra by R. E. Coker, and four very small specimens, 22 to 24 mm. long to
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 216 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM colorless except for dusky points, tke anterior lobe often white; ventrals generally white; pectorals mostly colorless on outer side, largely dusky on inner side. The Mission furnished nine specimens, 75 to 270 mm. (57 to 197 mm. to base of caudal) long, collected at Puerto Pizarro, Sechura Bay, and Chilca Bay. There is also at hand a large specimen, 285 mm. long to base of caudal ( No. 77686), taken at Lobos de Tierra by R. E. Coker, and four very small specimens, 22 to 24 mm. long to base of caudal ( No. 107148), taken at Paita by W. L. Schmitt. The proportions of the juveniles from Paita are not included in the Figure 48.—Trachinotus paitcnsis Cuvier and Valenciennes. From a specimen 285 mm. long to base of caudal, Lobos de Tierra Island, Peru ( No. 77686). (After T. paloma Evermann and Radcliflfe, 1917.) It is stated in the report of the Mission (1943, p. 289) that this pdmpano is one of Peru's best food fishes; that it enters the commercial catches in fair quantities, catches being reported from as far south as Chala; and that it usually was found on fairly rough sand beaches and was caught in seines, gill nets, and trammel nets, apparatus also used by commercial fishermen. The average size of the individuals taken by the Mission was about 200 mm. The large specimen secured by R. E. Coker, which was reported to be 380 mm. long (caudal now broken), may be near the maximum size attained. Range.—Baja California to Peru, Also reported from Valparaiso, Chile, as T. paloma without comment, by Fowler (1940b, p. 768). Genus CHLOROSCOMBRUS Girard, 1859 Body fairly deep, strongly compressed; ventral outline more strongly convex than the dorsal, each with a trenchant edge anteriorly; mouth nearly vertical; lower jaw in advance of upper; premaxillaries pro- tractile; maxillary broad, with a large supplemental bone; teeth small, pres
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