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of its identity with the Black-tail of Catesby, on which is based the 

 Perca melanura of Linnaeus. Goode has, however, identified this, with- 

 out good reason, it seems to us, with the Yellow-tail of the fishermen, 

 Lutjanus chrysurus. 



11. Haemulon sciurus. Yellow grunt ; Eonco Amarillo. 



Anthias formosus, Bloch, Iclithyol., taf. 383, about 1795, (Antilles); Block & 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, 305. (Not Perca forvioaa L., with which 

 it is identified; the latter is Serranus {Diplectrum) formosus.) 



Sparus sciurus, Shaw, General Zoology, iv, 1803, pi. 64 (based on the descrip- 

 tion and figure of Bloch), 



ScBtnulon sciurus, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 126 (Key West). 



Hcemulon elegans, CuviER, Rfegue Animal, 1829 (no description; on the figure 

 of Bloch); Cuv. & Val., y, 227, 1830; GUnther, i, 1859, 306 (Jamaica); 

 Putnam, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, 1863, 12 (name only); Poey, Repertio- 

 rio.i, 309, 1867 ; Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871, 471 (St. Croix). 



Diaiasis elegans, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 923 (specimen from As- 

 pinwall); Bean, Cat. Fish. Exh., London, 1883, 58 (Key West). 



Diabasis obliquatus, Bennett, Zoological Journal, London, v, 1835, 90 (Ja- 

 maica). 



Hcemulon luteum, Poey, Memorias, ii, 174, 354, 1860 (Cuba); PoEY, Synopsis, 

 317; Poey, Enumeratio, 44; PoEY, Anales, Hist. Nat., Madrid, 1881,201, 

 (Puerto Rico). 



Hcemulon muUilineutum, Poey, Memorias, ii, 178, 1860 (Cuba) ; Poey, Synop- 

 sis, 318 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 44. 



Habitat. — West Indies; Florida Keys to Brazil. 



Head 2|, (3.^) ; depth*2f, (3^). D. XII, 16; A. Ill, 8. Scales, 7-53-14. 

 Length, 10 inches. 



Body oblong; the back not specially elevated; the profile nearly 

 straight or slightly concave from tip of snout to before eye, thence a 

 little gibbous to base of dorsal ; snout moderately acute, 2 J in head. 



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

 front of pupil, its length 2 in head; lower jaw slightly included; teeth 

 strong; upper jaw in front, with about three strong canines on each 

 side, these stronger than any of the other teeth; front teeth of lower 

 jaw rather strong, as also the antrorse teeth of the back part of both 

 jaws. 



Eye moderate, 4 in head ; interorbital space convex, 3f in head ; pre- 

 orbital moderate, its least breadth 6§ in head; preopercle finely serrate; 

 gill-rakers small, about 17 below angle. 



Scales moderate, those above lateral line, not at all enlarged, arranged 

 in oblique series, those below in uearly horizontal ones. 



Dorsal spines rather slender, the fourth longest, 2f in head ; longest 

 soft rays, 4; upper caudal lobe longer than lower, 1^ in head; longest 

 anal rays, 2| in head, their tips, when depressed, extending beyond the 

 tips of the last rays. Second anal spine stronger and longer than third, 

 2^ in head, its tip, when depressed, reaching past the middle of the 

 last ray; ventrals, 1| in head; pectorals, If. 



