2278 Bulletiji 4.7, United States National Museum. 



2613. CAULOLATILUS CYAXOPS,* Poey. 



(Blanql'illo.) 



Head 4 in total length. D. VII, 24; A. I, 22 (scales 10-108-25. Bean). 

 Profile convex before the eye, not ascending to the nape ; no scales on the 

 lins ; soft rays little divided ; caudal slightly lunate ; first caudal vertelira 

 spoon-like, its cavity receiving the air bladder; vertebriv 12-|-15; no 

 pyloric ca'ca, stomach short, air bladder large. Color greenish above, a 

 faint, broad, interrupted brown band above the lateral lino; some small 

 brown spots above and below it; region below the eye clear blue, not very 

 different from the color of the belly ; soft dorsal brown, paler at its base, 

 edged with orange; spinous dorsal orange. (Poey.) Coast of Cuba; not 

 seen by us. Both this and the preceding species may be identical with 

 Caulolatihis chri/sops, a species described from the coast of Brazil. 

 {HvdvEoi, hlne; wip,eye.) 



t. Latilus chrysops, CuviEE & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss?, ix, 496, 1833, Brazil (Coll. 



M. Gay) ; Gunther, Cat., IT, 253, 1860. 

 Caulolatihis cyanops, Poey, Repertorio, i, 312, 1867, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



840. LOPHOLATILUS, Goode & Bean. 

 (Tile-Fishes.) 



Lopholatilus, Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 205 (chamceleonticeps). 



Body stout, somewhat compressed; mouth moderate, maxillary reaching 

 anterior margin of the orbit ; opercle and preopercle scaly, the latter finely 

 denticulate; upper jaw with outer series of stronger teeth, behind which 

 is a band of villiform teeth; lower jaw with a few large canines, and an 

 inner series of small conical teeth; vomer and palatines toothless; nape 

 Avith a large adipose appendage ; a fieshy prolongation upon each side of 

 the labial fold, extending backward beyond the angle of the mouth; 

 stomach small, siphonal, barely more than a loop in the very large intes- 

 tine; alimentary canal short, less than total length of the body; air 

 bladder sim])le, with thick muscular walls, strongly attached to the roof 

 of the abdominal cavity by numerous root-like appendages, resembling 

 sojuewhat that of Po</on(as. Deep-sea fishes. (Ad0o?, crest; Latilus. } 



2614. LOPHOLATILUS CHAMJELEOIVTICEPS, Goode & Bean. 



(Tile-Fish.) 



Head 3; depth 3^. I). VII, 15; A. II, 13; scales 8-93-30. Body stout, 

 somewhat compressed, its greatest width equaling length of caudal pedun- 

 cle; intermaxillaries supplied with a series of from 19 to 23 canine teeth, 

 behind which is a band of villiform teeth, widest at the symphysis; man- 

 dible with about 12 large canines; eye rather small, its diameter 6i in 



* The characters distinguishing Caulolatilvs chrysops are thus given by Poey: Head 

 4i in total length. D. VIII, 24; A. II, 22. I'rofile most gibbous behind tlieeye; a very 

 briiilit fiibleil baiul below the eye, broader anteriorly ; dorsal (in brown with irregular blue 

 spots; axillary spot green. Coast of Brazil. 



