1306 Bulletin 47, United States National Ahisetim. 



Bcemulon arara, Poey, Meraorias, ii, 177, 1860, Cuba. 



Hcemulon subarcuatum, Poet, Memorias, ii, 419, 1860, Cuba; a specimen with blue bands 

 on anterior half of head only. 



Biabasia plumieri, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. s. Nat. Mus. 1882, 603; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 971. 



Hcemulon plumieri, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 12C; Jordan & 

 Swain, I. c, 303; Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 475. 



1673. H^MULON FLAVOLINEATUM (Be.smarest). 

 (French Grunt ; Open-mouthed Grunt ; Kongo Condenado.) 

 Head 3; depth 2|. D.XII, 14; A. Ill, 8; scales 6-50-11. Eye large, 31 

 in head; iiiterorbital width 3^; preorbital low, its least width 7i in head. 

 Preopeicle rather evenly and sharply serrate ; gill rakers very small, about 

 8 + 13. Body obloug-ovate, comparatively deep and compressed; back 

 somewhat elevated; anterior profile nearly straight from the tip of the 

 snout to the nape, thence gently convex; snout rather short, acute, its 

 length 3 in head. Mouth not very large, the gape curved ; maxillary reach- 

 ing about to opposite front of the pupil, its length 2J in head. Teeth of 

 moderate size, the outer enlarged; antrorse teeth in the posterior part of 

 each jaw considerably enlarged; those of the upper jaw caninelike, larger 

 than any of the other teeth. Scales large; those of the anterior and mid- 

 dle parts of the body, down to the level of the lower part of pectoral, 

 much enlarged, having nearly double the depth of the scales above lateral 

 line ; rows above lateral line running very obliquely upward and back- 

 ward; those below somewhat wavy, most of them forming a curve with 

 the convexity downward and backward. Dorsal spines moderate, the 

 fourth 2 in head ; upper caudal lobe It ; longest anal rays 2^ in head, their 

 tips extending, when depressed, beyond the tip of the last ray ; second anal 

 spine much longer and stronger than third, 2 in head, its tip, when 

 depressed, reaching nearly to tip of last ray; ventrals If in head; pec- 

 torals narrow and long reaching to vent, 1^. Color in life, light bluish-gray 

 as ground color. A bronze-yellow spot on the upper part of each scale, 

 these forming continuous undulating stripes on the whole body and head, 

 wider than the interspaces of the ground color; on caudal peduncle they 

 are nearly straight; on anterior part of the body below lateral line they 

 are broader and very oblique. A horizontal stripe, crossing the others, 

 runs along the side of back from occiput to last rays of soft dorsal, of the 

 same golden-yellow; yellow around eye; yellow shades and streaks on 

 cheeks, not strongly marked as in H. sciurus and R. plumieri; yellow stripes 

 on top of head ; angle of month black, inside brick-red ; a large black blotch 

 under angle of preopercle; fins bright golden-yellow, the pectoral and 

 spinous dorsal paler. In spirits the ground color becomes grayish and the 

 stripes brownish or dusky. Length afoot. West Indies; Florida Keys 

 and Bermudas to Brazil; rare in Florida, common in the West Indies; one 

 of the most strongly marked species. Here described from Havana speci- 

 mens, (flams, yellow; Uneatns, marked with lines.) 



Diabasis Jiavolineatus, Desmarest, Prem. Decade Ichth., 35, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1823, Cuba. 

 Hcemulon heierodon, Cuvier, Kegne Animal, Ed. 2, ll, 176, 1829, Cuba ; based on 

 rayee of Desmarest ; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 255, 1830, 



