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The uaine chrysopterum has been generally applied to the present 

 species. This name comes from the Fcrca chrysoptera of Linnanis. 



This Perca chrysoptera was based on a specimen sent from Charleston 

 by Dr. Garden. This specimen is still preserved in London, and it be- 

 longs, according to Dr. Bean, who has examined it, to the species 

 called by Cuvier Pristipoma fvli'omaculatum. This species should 

 therefore be known as Pomadasys chrysopterus. With this Perca chrys- 

 optera Liunanis wrongly associates the Margate -fhsh of Catesby, which 

 is Hwmidon gibbosuni {album). Cuvier has identihed both Catesby's 

 fish and the Linmean Perca chrysoptera with the present species, v liich 

 he calls Hccmulon chrysopteron. It is evident from the above that the 

 name chrysopterum cannot properly be retained for this or any other 

 species of Hwrnulon. 



The name aurolineatum has been ap])licd by Jordan & Gilbert to 

 this species, but erroneously, as is shown beyond. We have, there- 

 fore, no alternative but to give to the present species a new name, as 

 none of those names by which it has been called [chrysopterum^ auro- 

 lineatum, caudimacula, parrw) were originally intended for it. W^e 

 have, therefore, proposed the name Ewmulon rimator, in allusion to 

 the inquisitive habits shown by the young of the species. They swarm 

 about the wharves and are a nuisance to the tisherman, nibbling oft' his 

 bait. 



Both Hamulon rimator and H. phimieri have been recorded from 

 " New York," but no good evidence exists that either species passes to 

 the northward of Cape Hatteras. Kone of the others range far north 

 of the Tropic of Cancer. 



17. Haemulon aurolineatum. Jdniguano. 



Hamulon aurilineatum, Cuvier Si, Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1830, v, 237 



(Brazil; San Domingo); GtNTHER, i, 318 (Peruambuco); ? CoPE, Traus. 



Am. Pbilos. Soc, 1871, 471 (St. Martins; name only). 

 HcRmulon jtniguano, PoEY, Memorias, ii, 183, 1860 (Cuba) ; Poey, Synopsis, 310; 



POEY, Enumeratio, 47. 

 Bathystoma jdnigunnio, Putnam, Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool., 1863, 1*2 (name only). 

 Diahasis jdniguano, JoKDAN & Gilbert, Synopsis Flsb. N. A., 92.'), 18S3 (Garrton 



Key); Bean, Cat. Fisb. Exb. London, 1883, 58 (Garden Key). 



Habitat. — West Indies ; Florida keys to Cuba. 



Head, 3 (3§) ; depth, ^ (4|). D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 8. Scales, 8-51-13. 

 Length, 6 to 8 inches. 



Body compressed, fusiform, the back not elevated ; the protile forming 

 a weak but nearly regular curve from the tip of the snout to the front 

 of the dorsal. Snout short, moderately pointed, 3 in head. Mouth 

 large, curved, the maxillary reaching to slighlly beyond middle of pupil, 

 its length 1| in head. Teeth not very strong, about as in //. ) imator. 



Eye large, 3^ in head; interorbital space convex, its width 4 in head; 

 preorbital very low, its least breadth about 7 in head. Gill-rakers 



