Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1489 



Serrana hispanis, Pabba, Piezas Hist. Nat. Cuba, 2, pi. 2, lower figure, 1787, Cuba. 



Hques punctalus, Bloch & Schneidee. Syat. Ichth., 106, 1801, Cuba (based on Parra, 2, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2); CnviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poias., v, pi. 167, 116, 1830; GiiN- 

 THEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 281, I860; Poet, Synopsis, 325, 1868; Poey, Enume- 

 ratio, 49, 1875; Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 441, 1889. 



1875. EQUES PULCHER, Steindachner. 



Head 3| to 3^ in total length; depth the same. D. X-I, 37 or 38; A. 

 II, 7; scales 50. Profile very steep, " steeper than in IJqiiea lanccolatiis." 

 Body deepest below first dorsal spine, thence rapidly tapering to the nar- 

 row caudal peduncle ; eye 3 in head ; snout U in eye ; mouth subinferior, 

 the thick convex snout projecting beyond it; first ventral ray filiform, 3^ 

 in body ; longest dorsal spines If to 2f in length of body, their height 

 nearly twice that of the body below them. Color olivaceous, 3 dark- 

 brown longitudinal bauds along the sides, the middle one from eye back- 

 ward reaching tips of middle caudal rays; the upper from occiput 

 backward to end of soft dorsal ; the lower from lower corner of eye to behind 

 anal ; 2 very faint broad cross bars, the anterior from base of first dor- 

 sal to ventrals, the next from middle of soft dorsal to anal; tip of snout 

 and chin black; an oblique bar below eye; spinous dorsal, pectoral, and 

 ventral black, edged with white; edges of caudal yellowish; anal with 

 lirown points anteriorly. (Steindachner.) Barbados; not seen by us. 

 {pulcher, pretty.) 



Eques pulcher, Steindachner, Icbtli. Notizen, vi, 43, 1867, Barbados; Joedan & Eigen- 

 mann, I. c, 441, 1889. 



Subgenus EQUES. 



187G. EQUES LA>X'EOLATUS (Linnajus). 



(Ribbon Fish; Guapena; Seeeana.) 



Head 4 ; depth 2} ; eye 4. D. XIV to X VI-I, 53 ; A. II, 5 ; scales irregular, 

 with smaller ones intermixed ; about 12 of the anterior interneurals Avedged 

 in between the occiput and the neural spiue of the third vertebra ; distance 

 from tip of snout to first dorsal spine much less than depth of body. Body 

 deepest below first dorsal spine, rapidly tapering to the narrow caudal 

 peduncle; profile very steep, little convex; eye little longer than snout; 

 preorbital broad, nearly as wide as eye; mouth small, slightly oblique; 

 maxillary reaching to below anterior fourth of eye; teeth all villiform in 

 broad bands, the outer scarcely enlarged; preoperele with a fringed mem- 

 branous border; gill rakers very short and slender, 6-f 9; anterior dorsal 

 spines much elongate, 1| in body; soft rays low, the membranes scaled to 

 the tips; anal small, its second spine 3 in head; ventrals 1^ in head; pec- 

 torals scarcely shorter. Color, light yellowish ; a narrow brownish band 

 from the corner of the mouth up across the middle of the eye and meeting 

 its fellow on top of head; another broader band edged with a narrow 

 white line on each side from the nape down and back over opercle, meet- 

 ing its fellow between the ventral fins and extending to the tips of their 

 outer rays ; a third and still broader baud, also bordered by white, extend- 

 ing from the tips of the dorsal spines to their base, then downward and 



