286 PROCEEDIXGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



95. Chromis enchrysurus sp. uov. P. (:30f-71.) 



Several specimens in tine condition, the largest 3J inches long, 

 "spewed up" by Eed Snappers, at Pensacola. 



Allied to Chromis insolains (C. & V.) and Chromis flavicauda (Gthr.). 



Head 3=^ in length; depth 2. B.XIII, 12; A, 11, 12 (D. XII, 11; A. 

 II, 11, in one specimen). Scales 3-26-9. 



Body regularly ovate-oblong, the anterior profile evenly convex. 

 Month small, oblique, the jaws equal, the maxillary extending little 

 past front of eye, 3| in liead. Snout short, ^ in head. Eye large, 2^ 

 in head. Preorbital entire; preopercle with distinct obtuse serratures 

 or crenations. Teeth slender, conical, in a moderate band, those of the 

 outer series considerably enlarged. Gill-rakers long, not as long as 

 pupil. 



Dorsal somewhat emarginate, the longest spine li in head, the long- 

 est soft ray about the same ; caudal lunate, the upper lobe slightly longer, 

 about as long as head. Anal about as high as soft dorsal, its second 

 spine If in head. Yentrals filamentous at tip, longer than head. Pec- 

 torals about as long as head. Vertical fins largely covered with small 

 scales. 



Color, when fresh, sooty gray, rather dark, a narrow blue stripe from 

 tip of snout obliquely upward and backward across upper part of eye 

 to above front of lateral line, where it ends in blue dots ; sides paler pos- 

 teriorly and below; fins dusky, the distal half of anal, most of soft dor- 

 sal, and the whole of caudal and pectorals of a very intense light yellow, 

 deepest on the caudal ; veutrals dusky-bluish, slightly tinged with yel- 

 low. A small black sjiot in upper part of axil. 



96. Platyglossus caudaUs (Poey) Gthr. P. (30817.) 



'] .litlis caiidalis Poey. Mem. Cuba, ii, 213. 

 '! .'.////(Ajxr^fs Poey. Mem. Cuba ii, 214. 



A single fine specimen G inches long, taken from the stomach of a 

 Red Snapper, at Pensacola. A second specimen badly injured was also 

 obtained. 



Head 3,^ (35) ; depth 4^ (5). D. IX-II ; A. Ill, 12. Scales 2-25-C. 



Body very slender, compressed, the snojit rather pointed, 3;V in head. 

 Eye moderate, 5i in head. Posterior canine large. Dorsal si)iues low, 

 rather slender, but i)ungeiit, lower than the soft rays. Caudal fin con- 

 vex, its two outermost rays somewhat produced. Pectoral I'jj in length 

 of head. Scales on breast small. Head naked. 



Color, when fresh, olivaceous above ; a row of round sky-blue spots 

 along each side of back ; a broad band-like area of orange intermingled 

 with violet spots along sides from lateral line about to level of eye, 

 extending backward about to middle of body ; the lower edge of the 

 orange band serrate. Below the orange a baud of pale violet, becoming 



