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8uiall, about 12 on lower part of arch. Scales rather small, arranged 

 about as in Ha'mulon rimator. 



Dorsal spines slender, rather high, the fourth 2;^ in head. Upper cau- 

 dal lobe, 1^ in head. Longest anal rays, 2^ in head, their tips not reach- 

 ing nearly to tips of last rays. Second anal spine not very much longer 

 than third ; about 3 in head, reaching when depressed little past the 

 base of the last ray. Ventrals, 1| in head ; pectorals, 1^. 



Color in life dusky gray, with seven or eight yellow longitudinal 

 streaks, the one through eye widest ; mouth very red ; no dusky spot 

 under the angle of preopercle; fins gray; dorsal scarcely yellowish. 



In spiiits the vertical fins and snout are somewhat dusky 5 the paired 

 fins are grayish, the golden stripes faint. 



This little fish is very abundant at Havana, where it is often brought 

 into the market. It reaches a smaller size than any other of the genus 

 except H. tcvniatum. It has been taken at Garden Key, Florida, but 

 was not observed at Key West by Professor Jordan. In its relations 

 it is extremely close to H. rimator. It is more slender and fusiform 

 in outline, and its coloration is usually of a deeper yellow, otherwise we 

 are unable to point out any differences of importance. 



We have adopted the name auroUneatiim for this species, and not 

 for H. rimator^ on the strength of the following account of the typical 

 specimen of Hccmulon aurolineatum received from Dr. H. E. Sauvage, of 

 the museum at Paris. 



" Hcemulon aurolineatum^ Brazil, Delalande, type. 



" Length ( f the body, 0.220"^, height of the body, 0.055°^, length of 

 head, .060"'. Height of the body contained nearly four times in the total 

 length, and 3^^ without the caudal." 



As the description of Cuvier & Valenciennes agrees in other respects 

 equally well with either species, the above measurements lerve no doubt 

 of the identity of their type with R. jeniguano. Hicmulon rimator^ young 

 or old, is never so slender as the above measurements would indicate. 



18. Haemulon quadrilineatum. WMte Grunt. 



? Capeuna hrasUiensiius, Marcgrave, Hist., &c., Brasil., i, 1648, 155, fig, p. 163. 



? Grammistes trivittatus, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. IchthyoL, IdOl, 188 (ou the 

 description of Marcgrave). 



Diaiasis irivittatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish., N. A., 1883, 554 (erroneously 

 ascribed, after Holbrook, to the Carolina fauna). 



? Serranus capeuna, Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Berlin Akad., 1821, 288 (on the 

 description of Marcgrave). 



? Hcemulon capeuna, Cuvier, R&gne Animal, 1829 (no description ; after Marc- 

 grave). 



Hcemylum capeuna, GooDE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., v., 1876, 53, (Bermuda). 



Hcemulon quadrilineatum, Ct'v. & Val., v., 1830, 238, pi. 120 (San Domingo); 

 GCXTHER, i, 316, 1859 (copied); PoEY, Eepertorio, i, 310, 1867; ii, 161; 

 POEY, Synopsis, 1868, 319 (Cuba) ; Poey, Enumeratio Pise. Cubens., 1875, 

 47; Cope, Traus. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871, 471 (St. Croix). 



Hcemulon quinqunlineatum, Poey, Memorias, ii, 419, 1860 (Cuba). 



