Fishes . ia, reaches a length of two feet or more. Itabounds in the broad band of giant kelp which lines the Cali-fornia coast and is a food-fish of much importance Thefemale is dull crimson. In the male the head and tail are blackand on the top of the head is developed with age a great adiposehump. A similar hump is fovmd on the adult of several otherlarge labroids. Similar species on the coast of South America,differing in color and size of scales, are Pimelometopon darwini,Trochocopus opercularis, and Bodianus diplotcsnia. The seno-rita, Oxyjulis californica, is a dainty cream-colored littl
Fishes . ia, reaches a length of two feet or more. Itabounds in the broad band of giant kelp which lines the Cali-fornia coast and is a food-fish of much importance Thefemale is dull crimson. In the male the head and tail are blackand on the top of the head is developed with age a great adiposehump. A similar hump is fovmd on the adult of several otherlarge labroids. Similar species on the coast of South America,differing in color and size of scales, are Pimelometopon darwini,Trochocopus opercularis, and Bodianus diplotcsnia. The seno-rita, Oxyjulis californica, is a dainty cream-colored little fish 6oo Chromides and Pharyngognathi of the California coast, Halichares semicinctiis, the kelpfish,light olive, the male with a blue shoulder bar, is found in south-em California. On the west coast of Mexico are numerousspecies of Tlialassoiiia, Halichccrcs, Pseudojulis, Xyrichthysand Iniistius, all different from the corresponding species inthe West Indies, and equally different from the much greater. 1 Kio. -iUO —Redfish (male), Piinelomclopon pidcher (Aj-res). San Diego. variety found in Hawaii and in Samoa. About the Polynesianand West Indian islands abound a marvelous wealth of forms of
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