Jordan a7id Evennann.— Fishes of North America. 1319 



others and is subject to considerable variation in form.* {surinamensis 

 from Surinam.) ' 



Lutjanus surinamensis, Bloch, Ichthyol., pi. 253, 1791, Surinam. 



Holocentrus gibboms, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 344, 1803, Surinam; after Bloch 



Pristipoma bilineatum, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., v, 271, 1830 Mar- 

 tinique. ' ' ' 



Pristipoma melanopterum, Cuvter & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 273, 1830, Brazil 



Hcemulon obtusum, Poey, Memorias, II, 182, 1860, Havana. 



Hcemulun labridxim. Poet, Memorias, li, 419, 1861, Cuba. 



Pristipoma mrinamense, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 273, 1830. 



Anisotremus bilineatm, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 319. 



Anisotremus surinamensis, Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 484, 1893 ; Evermann & Bean, Report 

 on tbe Fisheries of Indian River, Florida, Senate Doc. 4C, 54th Cong., 2d 8es.,'22, 1897. 



16S5. AMSOTRE.>IlS 1>TERRUPTIS (Gill). 



(MOJARRON.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2^. D. XII, 16 ; A. Ill, 8 or 9 ; scales 5- (7 or 8 in oblique 

 series) -52-12; pores 48. Form of Amaotremns surinamensis, the profile 

 rather steeper and less curved; scales above lateral line considerably more 

 enlarged ; in other characters entirely similar to A. surinamensis. Adult in 

 life, grayish anteriorly, yellow on posterior half; the back tinged with 

 brassy olive, which grows darker behind, the posterior parts pretty dis- 

 tinctly yellow ; lin spines gray, the soft tins olive, the fins growing dusky 

 at tip; scales on back and sides each with a distinct black spot; iris 

 yellow. Young specimens with 2 black horizontal stripes, one of these 

 from the eye to a point just before base of caudal, where it is interrupted, 

 a round black spot following at base of caudal; another stripe above this 

 and parallel with it; scales of anterior parts with round brown spots, not 

 confluent. Length 2 to 3 feet. Pacific coast about rocky islands from 

 Magdalena Bay to Panama and the Galapagos; probably varying into the 

 preceding, from which the Galapagos specimens are hardly separable. A 

 common food fish, {interruptus, broken, from the lateral stripe in the 

 young.) 



Genytremus interruptus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 256, voung, Cape San 



Lucas (Coll. J. Xantus). 

 Pristipoma fiLrthi, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., v, 4, 187G, Panama (Coll. Ignatius Fiirth) ; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 385. 

 Anisotremus surinamensis interruptus, Jordan & Fesler, I. c., 484, 1893. 



1686. AMSOTREMUS BICOLOR (Castelnau). 

 (MariaPrieta.) 

 Head 3; depth 21. D. XII, 16; A. Ill, 8; scales 7 or 8-46-15; lateral line 

 with 54 pores; eye 2|; snout 4*; preorbital 4; pectoral 1. Scales above 



Anisotremus interruptus, Gill. Pacific coast examples usually have the scales abo\e 

 tiie lateralline a little larger than usual in Atlantic specimens, but this diflerence seems 

 w be variable. We have compared specimens from Havana, Bahia, and Rio Janeiro 

 ^J.!. '»<w"^«w« from Mazatlan, Magdalena Bay, Panama, and the Galapagos. Specimens 

 T^n / Galapagos are darker in color and with the snout rather sharper than others seen, 

 iliose trom Galapagos and from Rio Janeiro have the scales above the lateral lin ■ a little 

 less en.argert, 9 in an oblique .series, downward and backward from first dorsal spine (7 

 in Panama specimen, 8 in specimen from Magdalena Bay). 



