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dusky, lateral band is also distinct, but all traces of this disappear with 

 death. The Cuban specimens are more dusky in color and less distinctly 

 spotted; the coloration abovejather brassy than pearly. West Indies; 

 Florida Keys to Brazil ; reaches a length of 2 feet or more, and is an impor- 

 tant food- fish at Key West, Havana, Nassau, St. Thomas, and Jamaica. 

 (albus, white.) 



Perccj marina gibhosa (Margate-fish), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Car., 2, pi. 2, 1742, Bahamas. 

 Percaglbbosa, Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 348, 1792; after Catesby ; not Perca gibbosa, Lin- 



yMVS, which is Uupomotis gibbosus. 

 Calliodon gibbosiis, Block & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 312, 1801; after Catesby. 

 Hcemulon album, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 241, 1830, St. Thomas; 



Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 469, 1893. 

 Hcemulon microphthahmim, Gunther, Cat., I, 306, 1859, America. 

 Hcemulon gibbosuin, Jordan & Swain, I. c, 290, 1884. 



1064. H.EMCLON MACROSTOMDM, Giinther. 

 (Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt.) 

 Head 2f ; depth 2|. D. XH, 16; A. Ill, 8; scales 7-51-13 (9 above in an 

 oblique series). Body oblong, moderately compressed, the anterior protile 

 almost straight; snout rather long and pointed, its length 2^ in head; eye 

 large, 3* in head ; mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching front of pupil, 

 2^ in head; least width of preorbital about 5 in head. Teeth moderate, 

 the outer row in the upper jaw and the posterior teeth in both jaws con- 

 siderably enlarged. Preopercle moderately serrate. Gill rakers small. 

 Scales moderate, those above lateral line not enlarged ; those below very 

 slightly enlarged ; scales above arranged in very oblique series, the series 

 below oblique anteriorly, becoming horizontal posteriorly. Dorsal spines 

 strong, the longest 2^ in head; soft dorsal rather high; caudal lobes sub- 

 equal, If in head; anal spines strong, the second longest and strongest, 2f 

 in head, its tip reaching, when depressed, beyond tip of last ray ; soft anal 

 very high, its free margin concave, its longest ray 2f in head, reaching 

 much beyond tip of last ray; pectorals 1| in head; ventrals 1|. Color 

 in spirits, pearly graj", with conspicuous narrow dark streaks, arranged 

 essentially as in the young of all the other species of HamuJon, but in 

 this species persistent through life; a median streak from tip of snout to 

 dorsal, 1 from snout above eye, along sides of back to last ray of soft 

 dorsal, 2 below this from eye above to last ray of soft dorsal, the ui)per 

 one more or less interrupted behind; a fourth streak from eye nearly 

 straight to base of caudal; traces below this of a fifth streak; a short 

 streak fom eye to gill opening, between the third and fourth streaks; thi 

 is continued on the body in a series of irregular marks and dots ; a large 

 black blotch on opercle under angle of preopercle; tins all dusty olive, the 

 pectorals palest; ventrals darkest.* Here described from No. 26555, U. S. 

 N. M., from Key West. West Indies, north to Florida Keys and Clearwater 

 Harbor. Not very common. {/uaHpos, long; drojiia, mouth.) 



* We have examined specimens of this species from Clearwater Harbor, Key West, 

 Jamaica, and St. Thomas. Tlie hirge specimen from St. Thomas, a foot in Icnglh, is per- 

 fectly unicolor, only some of I he iiiTper scales having darker centers. After rarefiil cmi- 

 sideration we have decided that //. niacrostoininn. Gimther, and H./rfiiirbinnhnii. tUnnU: & 

 Bean, must be identical, although tliere are one or two slight discrepancies in Giintlier's 

 description. 



