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do not permit us to identify the species. It resembles the present spe- 

 cies as much as any, but not enough to lend even probability to an 

 identification. 



10. Haemulon melanurum. Jeniguana. 



Perca marina canda nigra (the Black-tail), Catesby, Hist. Carolina tab. 7, 

 f. 2 (Bahamas). 



Perca melanura, Lixx^us, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1858; xii, 486, 1766 (based on 

 Catesby's tiojure) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, 1319. 



Bathystoma meJanurum, Putnam, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1863, 12 (namo 

 only). 



McBmulon melanurum, Cope, Irans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871, 471 (New Provi- 

 dence, St. Martin's, St. Croix). 



Bcpmulon dorsale, Poey, Memorias, ii, 179, 1860 (Cuba); Synopsis, 1868, 308; 

 Enumeratio, 1875,44). 



Habitat. — West Indies. 



Head, 3 (3f ) ; depth, 3 (33). D. XII, 16 ; A, III, 8. Scales, 6-60- 

 15. Length, 10 inches. 



Body comparatively elongate, the back not much elevated, the pro- 

 file slightly convex from tip of snout to front of eye ; thence more con- 

 vex to front of dorsal. Snout of moderate length, rather pointed, 2f 

 in head. 



Mouth rather large, the gape a little curved, the maxillary reaching 

 past front of pupil, its length 2 in head ; teeth moderate, those in front 

 somewhat enlarged ; antrorse teeth of posterior part of jaws not very 

 large. 



Eye moderate, 5 in head ; interorbital width, 4 ; preorbital low, its 

 least breadth 7 in head ; gill rakers, small. 



Scales moderate, those above lateral line not enlarged, their ar- 

 rangement about as in D. elegans. 



Dorsal species rather slender, the fourth, 2^ in head. Upper caudal 

 lobe, 1^ in head. Longest anal rays, 3 in head ; their tips, when de- 

 pressed, not extending beyond last ray. Second anal spine, 2| in head, 

 reaching, when depressed, rather beyond middle of last ray. Ventrals,- 

 If in head ; pectorals, 1^. 



Color in life, pearly gray. Back and sides with about ten horizontal 

 stripes of golden yellow, narrower than the interspaces of the ground 

 color. Snout above bluish dusky. A dusky stripe through eye from 

 tip of snout to behind gill opening. A well-defined black area on 

 back and caudal fin, bounded below by an almost straight line from 

 first dorsal spine to tip of lower caudal lobe ; middle part of both cau- 

 dal lobes black, the edges gray. A black spot under angle of preoper- 

 cle ; mouth within very red ; pectoral, ventrals, and anal gray, not yel- 

 low. Soft dorsal dusky along the base. 



This species is rather common at Havana, where it is known as Jenig- 

 uana. It reaches a length of about a foot. There seems to be little doubt 



