Jordan ayid Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1283 



the other fins paler. In spirits these colors fade, the fish becoming rosy 

 white. Length 2 to 3 feet. West Indies to Madeira, not yet known from 

 Florida; in rather deep water; generally common on rocky bottoms. The 

 specimens here described from Havana. One of the most beautiful of 

 fishes. A very similar species, E. cai-huncitlus Cuvier & Valenciennes, 

 occurs in the East Indies and north to Japan. As noticed by Temminck 

 & Schlegel and by Steindachuer, the published descriptions show no 

 characteristic by which E. oculatus can be sei)arated from E. carbiin- 

 ciilus. It is, however, not safe to unite the two until actual comparison 

 of examples can be made, {oculatus, "eyed," referring to the large eye.) 



? Etelis earhunculus, Cuvieb & Valenciennes, Hiat. Nat. Pois8., ii, 127, 1828, Seychelles 



Archipelago. 

 Serranus oculatus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss.. ii, 206, 1828, Martinique. 

 Hesperanthias oculatus, Lowe, Fishes Madeira, 14, 1843. 



Centropristis oculatus, MOllee & Troschel in Schombuh«k, Hist. Barbados, 666, 1848. 

 Macrops oculatus, Dumekil, Ichth. Analytique, 279, 1856. 

 Anthias oculatus, GOnther, Cat., i, 92, 1859. 

 Dtelis oculatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 447; Jordan & Swain, I. c, 469; 



JOBDAN & Fesler, I. c, 4.'J7. 



1«55. ETELIS AQUILONABIS (Goode cV Bean). 



A second American species of this genus has been indicated in the fol- 

 lowing words : 



A specimen (Cat. No. 37346, U. S. N. M.) obtained by the Fish Hawk has 

 been misplaced and can not now be fully described. 



A note indicates that the length of its head was equal to the height of 

 its body, which is contained 2^ times in the total length (without caudal). 

 The diameter of the orbit is contained 3^ times in the head. The maxil- 

 lary bone was naked, rather than scaled as in Etelis oculatus; and the 

 scales numbered 53 in the lateral line, 7 above and 14 below. The radial 

 formula was D. X, 11; A. Ill, 8. A small specimen, po,ssibly of the same 

 species, was obtained by the Blake, off Dominica, at Station CVI, in 524 

 fathoms; but since this is less than 2 inches long, and the subject of the 

 above note was 9, it is impossible to confirm the identification in the 

 absence of the larger specimen. (Goode & Bean.) The larger number of 

 scales above the lateral line would indicate that this species is allied to 

 Etelis rather than to Anthias, with which it has not much in common. 

 {aquilonaris, of the north wind; northern.) 



Anthias aquilonaris, Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 238, 1896, Gulf of Mexico, Lat. 

 28° 36' N., Long. 85° 33' 30" W. 



532. VERILUS, Poey. 



Verilus, Poey, Memorias, ii, 125, 1860 (sordidus). 



Body oblong, compressed, the caudal peduncle short and thick ; head 

 large, the skull largely cavernous and spongy in substance; eye very 

 large; preorbital very narrow; mouth large, the chin projecting; canines 

 moderate; tongue and pterygoids toothless; preopercle with a nearly 

 entire membranous edge. Scales large. Dorsal deeply divided, the spines 



