924 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Indies; north to Florida. Resembles D. formosus, but readily distin- 

 guished by the striped body. 



C. & V. v, 287: Hccmulon tlcf/ana Giintbcr, i, 306.) 



e .").",",. After DinbdNi* chrysopterus add: 



873 (l>). D. chroiiiis (Brouss.) J. & G. 



Light olive; each scale with a large dark spot; these forming- very 

 distinct interrupted stripes along the rows of scale; lower fins dusky; 

 a dusky blotch at angle of preopercle. Young with 2 or 3 longitudinal 

 blackish streaks. Back somewhat elevated; maxillary reaching just 

 past front of eye, 2f in head. Series of scales above lateral line very 

 oblique (as in all our species of Didbaws), the series from the scapular 

 scale reaching Gth dorsal spine; preopercle well serrated. Longest 

 dorsal spine 2i in head ; second anal spine strong, 2 in head, the fin 

 high. Pectoral 1J in head. Head 3; depth 2f. D. XII, 18; A. Ill, 

 7; Lat. 1. 42. West Indies; north to Florida. 



(Perm chromix Ilrnnssom-t MSS: Ilcemnlon cliromls C. & V. 242: Hcemulon cliromis 

 Giinthcr, i, IUH: Ilnmnloti ncrrahtin Poey, Meruorias, ii, 181.) 



873 (<). D. nBbais (C. & V.) .1. A ('.. 



Color pale uniform plumbeous; no black spot behind angle of preo- 

 ] icicle. Mouth wide, but the maxillary not reaching front of orbit; eve 

 6 in head, 2rj in snout; preopercle finely and evenly serrate, its poste- 

 rior limli nearly vertical. Dorsal fin scarcely notched, the spines rather 

 strong, the fourth longest, 2 in head; second and third anal spines 

 nearly equal in length. and strength, rather more than half fourth dorsal 

 spine. Candid forked. Head .'*.] (in total): depth. 3|. D. XII, 10; A. 

 111,8; scales 7-."iO-10. West Indies; north to Key West. 



C Iln inn!, in itlli/nii Cuv. iV Val. v, 2-1 1: JliiiiinJnn tillmm (iiiiithrr, i, 311: Ilwmulon 

 1'isc. C'ulx-ns. 



1'age ").">.">. To description of IHfi/mxis <'Itri/s<>i>f<'n/x ;idd: 



Brownish-olive ;il)d\-; a narrow bron/e land, darkest in young, from 

 snout, through eve, to base of caudal; above this two or three dark 

 streaks from eye to above gill-opening; another beginning on top of 

 snout on each side, passing above eye, and extending parallel with the 

 lirst-mentioned stripe straight to last ray of dorsal, where it meets its 

 fellow <!' the opposite side; a dark streak from tip of snout along me- 



