Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1555 



opercle sharply serrate. Caudal well forked, the upper lobe the longer, 

 especially iu males. Lower limb of preopercle scaly. Head except snout 

 scaly. Sooty blue-black in life, not paler below; each scale of back and 

 sides with an inconspicuous bronze-olive spot; a faint paler band around 

 caudal peduncle; head with small spots of sky-blue, those before eye 

 oblong ; iris blue and gilt ; spinous dorsal with blue and with bronze spots ; 

 soft dorsal with line blue points; dorsal with a snbmarginalband of paler; 

 this band on spinous dorsal formed of 2 obli(iue yellowish stripes with 

 a bluish stripe between them; caudal black, paler at tij), its base with 

 blue spots; anal black, with blue points at base ; a whitish spot at base of 

 last ray; a conspicuous black spot at base of upper pectoral rays; no 

 black blotch on back of tail. Length 4 inches. Here described from 

 specimens from Key West; the species perhaps not distinct from Eupoma- 

 cenlrus leucoatictus. (atialis, from the pale anal spot.) 



Pomacentrus analii* Poey, Synopsis, 327, 1867, Havana. 



Pomacentrus obscuratus, JoKDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 188i, 133, in part; description of 

 males from Key West ; not of Poey. 



1966. EUPOMACEXTRIJS OTOPHORI S (Poey). 



Head 3^ (4 in total) ; depth about 2 (2| in total). D. XII, 14; A. II, 12; 

 scales 3-27-9. Vertebrate 11 -f 15=26. Profile oval ; the line of the fore- 

 head steep; snout short; maxillaryrcachinghalfway to tbeeye; suborbital 

 and preopercle serrated ; caudal lunate, the upper lobe the longer; pectoral 

 rounded. Color brown ; all the head, except the opercle, blackish, as well 

 as all the fins, of which the points are orange; a black spot on the trunk 

 of the pectoral, another on the opercle aljove. Length 5i inches. Cuba 

 (Poey.) Not seen by us. (ou?, ear; <i>op£co, to bear; from the dark spot 

 on the opercle. ) 

 Pomacentrus otophorus, Poey, Memorias, ii, 188, 1860, Havana. 



1967. EUPOMACEXTRUS LEIICOSTICTIJS (Miiller & Troschel). 



(Beau Gregory; Cockeye Pilot; Black Pilot.) 



Head Sh ; depth 2^. D. XII, 13 to 15 ; A. II, 12 to 14 ; scales 3-29-9. Body 

 compressed, dorsal and ventral outlines similar, profile convex, convexity 

 more prominent in interorbital space; mouth moderate, maxillary scarcely 

 reaching vertical from front of orbit; diameter of eye 3|^ in head, greater 

 than the length of the snout ; preopercle serrate ; suborbital ring denticu- 

 late in adults (3.V inches), smooth in the youug. Color in life, dark olive- 

 brown anteriorly, clear yellow, with pearly reflections on sides and below ; 

 the caudal peduncle and fin rich golden yellow ; head olive above, golden 

 below, the colors changing insensibly; head with numerous spots of dark 



* Pomacentrus analis, Poey. Depth 2j in total length ; eye 2} in head, as long as snout ; 

 lower opercular spine very distinct ; preopercle and suborbital toothed. Color darlc brown 

 with blue points on the sides of the head, some along the trunk and many along the 

 median vertical fins; tip of the dorsal and whole of the caudal brownish yellow; anal 

 blaekisli ; the other fins washed with dusky ; a bright point at the Iiase of the anal ray ; 

 youug with a Idack ocellus bordered with sky blue along the soft dorsal; older individ- 

 iials with 2 blue lines between the eyes. Havana. (Poey.) 



