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aual; vontrals not reaching to vent, origin of ventral spine slightly 

 behind base of pectoral; caudal forked, the lobes elongate, souietiiues 

 produced into a filament. Color in spirits, uniform, pale olive brown 

 above, white below; fins light brownish; no distinct markings. Length 

 15 inches. West Indies, rather common; used as food. Here described 

 from specimens from Havana. (Named for Pere Plumier, of Martinique.) 



Matejuelo bianco, Parra, Dii'. Piezas Hist. Nat. Cuba, 22, tab. 13, f. r. 1787, Cuba. 

 Gorjiphofna plumieri, Blocu, Icbthyol., V, 119, pi. 175, 1787, Martinique; from a drawing 



by Plumier. 

 Malacanthiis trachimts, Valenciennes, in Cuvier, E^gne Animal, pi. 90, fig. 3. 

 Sparus ohlongios, Block & Schneider, Syst. Icbtb., 283, 1801 ; after Parra. 

 Malacanthvs plumieri, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poias., xiii, 319, 380, 1839, 



specimens from San Domingo; Gunther, Cat., hi, 359, 1861. 



839. CAULOLATILUS, Gill. 

 (Blanquillos.) 



Oaulotatilvs, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862, 240 (no diagnosis), and Gill, Proc. Ac 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 66 (chrysopa). 

 Dekai/a, Cooper, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1864, 70 (princeps), not Dekayia, Milne-Edwards <fe 



Haime, 1851, a genus of corals. 



Body elongate, suljfusiform, not strongly compressed, heavy forward, 

 tapering to a rather slender caudal peduncle; profile of head strongly 

 arched ; mouth moderate, little oblique, the jaws nearly equal ; lips thick ; 

 maxillary narrow, not slipping under the preorbital; teeth in villiform 

 bands, preceded by a row of stronger acute teeth ; posterior teeth in each 

 jaw canine-like, directed forward; posterior canines of upper jaw largest; 

 no teeth on vomer or palatines; preopercle pectinate, the teeth nearly 

 even ; opercle with a blunt, flat spine ; eyes large, lateral ; gill membranes 

 slightly connected, forming a fold across the isthmus, with which they 

 are narrowly joined; branchiostegals 6; gill rakers short and stout; nos- 

 trils double, round, close together; scales small, firm, ctenoid; lateral line 

 continuous, concurrent with the back ; dorsal with 7 to 9 slender, pointed, 

 graduated spines and 22 to 27 soft rays; anal similar to soft dorsal, with 

 1 or 2 small spines and more than 20 soft rays; caudal fin forked ; ventral 

 fins thoracic; no adipose appendage at the nape; vertebrtc 12-|-15 = 27. 

 Large fishes of the warm seas of America; valued as food. (KauAdj, 

 stem; Latilus; being distinguished from Latilus by the many rays.) 



a. Scales small, about 125 in tbe lateral line, about 50 in a transverse series. 



b. Eye large, 4J in tbe head ; depth 4 in length ; scales 16-125-40. 



PRINCEPS, 2611. 



bb. Eye small, 6 in bead; depth 3A in body; scales 13-120-35. microp.s, 2612. 



aa. Scales larger, about 108 in the lateral line, about 25 in a transverse series; scales 



12—108—25. CYANOPS, 2013. 



2611. CAULOLATILUS PRINCEPS (Jeuyns). 

 (B1.ANQUILL0; White-fish.) 



Head 3|; depth 4. D.IX,24; A. II, 23; scales 16-125-40. Flesh of the 

 occiput becoming thick with age, as in Harpe. Eye large, about \ the 

 convex iuterorbital space, 4i in head; maxillaries reaching front of eye; 



