1384 Bulldin //, United States National Musciivi. 



peritoneum black. Color dark steel-blue, paler below ; body witli about 

 12 nearly vertical blackish cross bands about as wide as the eye ; below 

 eye silvery, with a dark streak from maxillary to angle of opercle; oper- 

 cular blotch black; a black blotch in the axil; fins mostly dark. Two 

 larger specimens 11 and 13 inches long collected by the J /ftaiross at San 

 Bartholome Bay, Lower California, differ notably in form, and may possibly 

 belongto a distinct species. Head 31; deiith2^. D. XI, 11; A. Ill, 10; scales 

 9-55-17; snout 3 in head; eye 5; interorbital 2f ; maxillary 3i; longest 

 dorsal spine 2|; second anal spine 3^; longest dorsal ray 3; longest anal ray 

 3|; pectoral 1?; ventral 1;!; caudal lobe \\. Body oblong-ovate, com- 

 pressed ; head short ; maxillary bandy reaching front of eyo ; each jaw with 

 a single series of equal rounded incisors with small villiform teeth behind 

 them; villiform teeth on vomer; gill rakers as long as the diameter of 

 pupil, about 3 -f 12. Top of head as far back as posterior margin of eye, 

 snout, maxillary, lower jaw, preorbital, suborbital ring, and edge of pre- 

 opercle, naked; cheeks with G series of scales, 6 rows on the opercle; the 

 fins covered with fine scales; dorsal with a well-developed sheath of 

 scales. Spinous dorsal the higher; second and third anal spines about 

 equal, the first rays the longest, fin sharply angulated in front; ventrals 

 placed well behind pectorals, their tips not reaching the vent; caudal 

 emarginate, the lobes aboiit equal. Color in spirits, slaty above with 12 

 or 13 dark cross bars which fade out below pectoral; a streak across max- 

 illary and preopercle belovr eye, and one across snout through eye; belly 

 silvery, fins all dusky, ventrals tipped with black, a black blotch on axil; 

 edge of opercle black, a conspicuous black blotch above angle. Known 

 onlj' from these 2 specimens and the types, 2 specimens 8 and 9 inches long 

 respectively, from the Bay of Guaymas. Length afoot, {azureiis, sky-blue.) 



Hennosilla azurea, Jenkins & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu.s. 1888, 144, Guaymas 

 (Type, No. 36269. Coll. Jenkins & Evermann) ; Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mu8. 1891, 156, pi. 1, fig. 3; Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 533, 1803. 



566. KYPHOSUS, Lacopi'de. 



(Choi'as.) 



Eyphosus, LACiEPtoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ni, 114, 1802 (bi(jibbuii =fuscus) . 



Pimck'pteriis, LAcfipfcDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 429, 1803 {bosqui — seciatrix). 



Dorsuarius, LACEPfeDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 482, 1803 {nigre,icens=fuscus). 



Xyster, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 484. 1803 (fuficus). 



Saleima, Bowdich, Excursion Madeira, 238, 1825 (aurata). 



1 OpistMstiug, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862, 245 (tahinel). 



Body elong.ate-ovate, regularly elliptical, moderately compressed; head 

 .short, with blunt snout; eye large; mouth small, horizontal; maxillarv 

 barely reaching front of eye; each jaw with a single series of rather nar- 

 row obtusely lanceolate incisors, implanted with compressed conspicuous 

 roots posteriorly ; behind these a narrow band of villiform teeth ; fine teeth 

 on vomer, palatines, and tongue. Branchlostegals 7; gill rakers long. 

 Preopercle obsoletely serrate ; preorbital narrow, covering but little of the 

 maxillary. Sciuaniation very complete, the space between and about the 

 eyes being the only naked part ; scales smallish, thick, ctenoid, 60 to 70 in 



