120 H/EMULON CHRYSOPTERON. 



GENUS H^MULO'N. — Cm 



vier. 



Characters. Head compressed ; profile lengthened ; lower jaw long, com- 

 pressed, and generally red at its posterior half; chin with an oval cavity and two 

 pores ; back arched ; dorsal fin single, slightly emarginate, soft portion scaly ; ven- 

 tral fins covered with scales ; branchial rays seven. 



H^MULON CHRYSOPTERON. — Linnceus. 



Plate XVII. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Head large ; snout prolonged, compressed ; mouth 

 large, narrow, red behind ; back arched, pale grey ; belly silvery ; ventral fin yel- 

 lowish. B. 7. D. 13-14. P. 17. V. 1-5. A. 3-10. C. 18. 



Synonymes. Margate-fisli, Gates., Hist. Carol., &c., vol. ii. p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 1. 

 Perca chrysoptcra, Lin., Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 488. 

 Perca chrysoptera, Gmel., Ed. Syst. Nat., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1314. 

 Lutjan chrysoptere. Lace]}., torn. iv. p. 126. 



Hoemulon chrysopteron, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. v. p. 240. 

 Hemulon chrysopteron, DcKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 85, pi. 7, fig. 22. 

 Hsemulon chrysopteron, Storer, Synops., p. 74. 

 Red-mouth Grunt, Vulgo. 



Description. The body is elongated, much' compressed, sharp and arched along 

 the back, broader and nearly straight below. 



The head is very large, long, compressed at the sides, narrower below, broad 

 and fiat between the eyes, with the snout rather pointed. The eye is very large, 

 and midway between the extremities of the opercle and snout, but with its lower 



