1246 Bulletin 4.7, United States Natiojial Museum. 



is confluent anterierly with the supiaoccipital crest, a character not seen 

 in any species of Neomainis. Lutianus and Gewyorojrehave not been exam- 

 ined in this res])ect. Species brightly colored, chiefly of the western 

 Pacific; one within our limits, {ev , well; 6nXirr]<i, armed.) 



1629. EVOPLITES VIUIDIS (Valenciennes). 



Head 2f ; depth 3; eye large, 4 in head. D. X, 14; A. Ill, 8. Scales 

 9-54-17. Body rather elongate, profile to nape nearly straight; snout 

 pointed, 3^ in head; snpraoccipital crest low; preorbital moderate, 6| in 

 head; mouth moderate, the jaws subequal, the maxillary reaching front of 

 pupil, 2 J in head ; each jaw with a narrow band of villiform teeth, outside 

 of which are moderate canines ; tongue toothless ; vomer Avith a A-shaped 

 band of teeth and with no backward prolongation on median line. Gill- 

 rakers short and slender, 10 developed ; nostrils small, well separated, the 

 posterior oblong. Preopercle with a sharp, deep notch, into which fits a 

 knob from the interopercle ; temporal crest not confluent Avith orbital rim, 

 but uearly or quite confluent with snpraoccipital crest in front ; lower limb 

 of preopercle coarsely serrate ; preopercle strongly serrate above the notch. 

 Scales rather small, the rows above lateral line very oblique, nowhere 

 parallel with the lateral line, 7 or 8 rows on cheeks, anterior largest, one 

 row on interopercle ; top of bead scaled as far forward as front of pupil ; 

 10 rows of scales between eye and suprascapula ; soft dorsal aad anal scaly. 

 Dorsal spines low and strong, the iburth spine lougest, 3 in head ; soft 

 dorsal rounded, the lougest ray ^ in head ; anal moderate, its free edge 

 straight, the second sxiiue longest, 2| in head; pectorals long, li in head. 

 Color golden-brown with 5 sky-blue longitudinal stripes, each broadly and 

 sharply margined with dark blue ; the whole band as broad anteriorly as 

 tbe interspaces, growing narrower behind tbe dark-blue border, nearly as 

 wide on each side as the median pale-blue band; a faint median blue 

 streak from occiput to front of dorsal, then a band of 3 blue streaks, 

 as above stated, from occiput above eye to ninth dorsal spine; second from 

 upper edge of eye to middle of soft dorsal ; third from middle of eye to last 

 ray of dorsal; fourth from upper jaw along lower edge of eye to middle of 

 base of caudal peduncle, where it ends abruptly ; fifth from end of maxil- 

 lary to above last ray of anal; fins all pale, the dorsal partly edged with 

 black; no black lateral spot. Rocky islands of tbe eastern Pacific; known 

 from the Galapagos (Valenciennes), Tres Marias (Forrer), and the Revilla- 

 gigedos Islands (Gilbert); here described from a specimen* taken by 

 Alfonse Forrer at the Tres Marias, {viridis, green, a very inappropriate 

 name, as the species is olive with blue stripes.) 



Diacope viridis, Valenciennes, Voyage de la V6nus, 303, pi. 1, fig. 2 (very bad), 1845, 



Galapagos Islands. • 

 Genyoroge viridis, Gunther, Cat., i, 180, 1859. 

 Lutjanus viridis, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.1888, 330; Jordan & Pesler, I. c, 439. 



' I':r„i,Iit,:<: l-.i^-nnni MVnin Svviitovv, China) differs fnini i:r„,,lilrn rirlilln in tlic following 

 Tcs]u,\^ l'.(.(l\ i|. ,|„r (ilrjiili -J:-;) : .scales smallt-v (Si \-2 H-j ':■:■. i h.- l,;irk nmr,' rlr\ ated and 

 llic ipii.lil( ^,ll■l |)ii ; .^uiMii ;; in' head; preorbital f,- niaxilhii \ -j;: >, cuml .hkiI spine 3i; 

 lovvtir latia-al Wand waiitiii.ii; a vauue dark lateral bloti^h pii-siiit, larj;cr lliau cvu; bands 

 less shavi)ly defined than in E. virUKs, the pale-blue median streak in each band twice as 

 wide as tlie dark border, the whole band narrower, its width one-third to one-fourth that 

 of the j;olden-brown interspaces ; no median dorsal streak. 



