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2529. SICTDIUM PLUMIEEI (Bloch). 

 (SntAjo.) 

 Head 4 to 4|; depth 4|; eye 6 to 7 in Lead, 2 to 3 in interorbital width. 

 D. VI-I, 10; A. 1, 10; scales 84. Teeth in upper jaw long, slender, bent 

 inward at right angles, only the lips protruding from the gums. Front 

 teeth of lower jaw not larger than those heliind; a single row of incon- 

 spicuous papilho on the gum beneath the upper lip, a large median ps^iiilla 

 above the maxillary suture ; a median cleft in the upper lip. Pectorals 

 longer than head ; third, fourth, and fifth dorsal spines produced into long 

 ribbons, the fourth, which is the longest, being 2 to 3 times height of 

 body. Body usually covered with small scales, reduced in size on neck 

 and belly ; frequently almost naked, the scales present only on postei'ior part 

 of body. Caudal deeply emarginate. Color olive or violet brown, with 

 about 7 more or less distinct dark vertical bars; a dark bar at base of 

 pectoral; dorsal with irregular dark markings; anal fin with a dark 

 marginal band, sometimes edged with white; an H-shaped figure on base 

 of caudal fin, and a black bar on its posterior half. Fresh waters of the 

 West Indies. (Named for Pere Charles Plumier, who discovered the species 

 at Martinique.) 



GoHns plumieri, Bloch, Ichth., 125, pi. 178, fig. 3, 1786, Martinique; on a drawing by 



Plumier. 

 Sicydium siragus, Poey, Memorias. n, 278, 1861, Santiago de Cubq. 

 Sicydiumplumierii, CrviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xu, 168, 1837; Gill, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. I'hila. 1860, 101 ; Gunther, Cat., ni, 92, 1861; Ogilvie-Grant, Proo. Zool. 



Soc. Lond. 1884, 156, pi. 11, flg. 1 ; Jordan & Eiqenmann, I. c, 484 ; Eigenmann & Eigen- 



MANN, I. C, 56. 



2530. SICYDIUM AXTILLABUM. Ogilvie-Grant. 



Head 4* ; depth 6 ; width of head f length. D. VI-I, 10 ; A. I, 10 ; scales 

 68. Teeth in upper jaw long, slender, and bent inward over the gum at 

 right angles. A row of small lamelliform transverse papilla^ on the gum 

 beneath upper lip, with a larger median lamelliform papilla above maxil- 

 lary suture; a slight median cleft in upper lip; maxilhie at right angles 

 to one another; horizontal teeth conspicuous. Scales on body and tail 

 subequal and larger than those on neck and belly. Maxilla not extending 

 to vertical from posterior margin of eye, the diameter of which is con- 

 tained 6,V times in length of head and twice in interorbital space. Length 

 of pectoral greater than that of head. The third, fourth, and fifth dorsal 

 spines produced into long narrow ribands; the fourth, which is longest, 

 nearly 3 times height of body; second dorsal considerably higher than 

 body. Color uniform violet brown ; dorsal fins with irregular wavy dark 

 markings; anal with a black and white marginal band; caudal with a 

 dark baud on upper margin. One specimen, 4f inches long, from Barba- 

 dos (Ogilvie-Grant) ; not seen by us. (aniiUannn of the Antilles.) 



Sicydium antillarum, Ogilvie-Geant, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, 157, Barbados. 



