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deeply forked. Branchiostegals 5 or 0. Species numerous in the trop- 



ical seas. (-m^Mj operculum; /.;;-(><>;, spine.) 



a. Preoperrle serrate. at least in the adult. (Pomncciitrus.) 



956. P. lesicostictiis Miiller & Troschel. 



Da-k brownish above, yellowish green on the sides and belly, yellow 

 on the tail and caudal fin ; numerous roundish bluish-white spots on the 

 head, back, and soft portions of the dorsal and anal fins, the dots being- 

 less numerous on the sides; sometimes nearly uniform brown, almost 

 unspotted ; no spot on the back of the tail ; a white dot on the base of 

 the la .1 anal rays; young- with an ocellated dorsal spot and convergent 

 blue bauds on the snout; upper profile of head arched; suborbital ring 

 minutely denticulate posteriorly; preopercle serrulate; lower limb of 

 preopercle scaly; upper and lower teeth nearly equally broad, entire ; 

 caudal forked, the lobes rather pointed. Depth 2J in total. D. XII, 

 15; A. II, 13; scales 3-28-9. (Giinther.) West Indies, north to West 

 Florida. 



(Miiller & Troscbel, Scbouibnrgk's Barbud. 674; Giiutber, iv, 31; Goode & Bean, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. 1879, 338.) 



an. Preoprrcle entire. 



l>. Tertli entire. (Hypzypops* Gill.) 



957. P. B'sabicundus (Grd.) J. & G.. Garibaldi. 



Uniform deep scarlet, unmarked ; edges of fins dusky. Body short 

 and deep, elevated, compressed, constricted behind the dorsal and anal, 

 the caudal peduncle short and deep; head higher than long, the preor- 

 bital I'.nd suborbital regions being unusually deep ; preopercle entire; 

 cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly; mouth small; lips thick; teeth 

 compressed, narrow, blunt and entire, in a single row, dark at tips; 

 ^ill-rakers short and flexible; prcorbital anteriorly as wide as the eye; 

 cheeks with 5 or (> rows of rather small scales, opercles with several 

 rows of larger ones; lips thick, the lower without frenum; soft fins 

 rathei high; pectorals reaching nearly to vent. Head 3.\ : depth 1^. D. 

 XII, Hi; A. II, 15; scales 5-30-13; Lat. 1. on 21 scales. L. 12 inches. 

 < 'oast of California, south of Point Concepcion; abundant al unit rocky 

 isJands. 



', //////I/MI /IK/ riiliii-iniilii:-: <;iranl. Pror. Acad. Nat. Sri. Hiila. lH. r >4, 148: Parma ruln- 

 ( ninl, i < iiini her, iv, .">-<: //////S///III/I.S nitiiftniili N (Sill, I'mc. A-a<l. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 18(53, 

 218. 

 lib. Teeth emarginste. ('.'////(//II/IH/IK/ t i.;n-i'|M-<ir.) 







(Jill, I'ruc. Ai"nl. Nat. Sci. I'hila. \^\\, ic..".: type Glyphisodon rubiouitdus Gid.. 



i; ;'-.TII, lidnu ; /.'i//-, i-\i-; in allusion to tlie liiLjli suliorliital region.) 

 i Uliiiiliixodiiii Lar'-|H'<lr. I list. Nat. 1'niss. i\..".|-J. 1-llxi: typ<- aliijiliisodon moucliarra 

 Lac. Cheetodon eaxatilia Rloch. (r.U'v^/;, notcb; oocbv, tootli.) 



