Jordan and Everrnmin. — Fishes of North America. 1549 



the interorbital space flattish. Month small, oblique, the ja\Ys equal, the 

 maxillary extending little past front of eye, 3i in head. Snout short, 4J 

 in head; eye very large, 2,V in head, much larger than in Chromis cliromis 

 or Chromis puncti}}innis. Preorbital entire ; preopercle with distinct obtuse 

 serratnres or crenations. Teeth slender, conical, in a moderate baud, those 

 of the outer series considerably enlarged, broad and blunt. Gill rakers 

 long, not as long as pupil. Dorsal somewhat emarginate, the spines 

 unusually high, the longest spine li in head, the longest soft ray about the 

 same; caudal lunate, not deeply forked, the lobes short, the upper lobe 

 slightly longer, about as long as head; anal about as high as soft dorsal, 

 its second spine If in head; soft dorsal and anal rather high, rounded 

 behind, reaching past base of caudal; ventrals filamentous at t\p, longer 

 than head; jiectorals about as long as head; vertical fins largely covered 

 with small scales. Color, when fresh, sooty-gray, rather dark, a narrow 

 blue stripe from tip of snout obliquely ujiward and backward across upper 

 part of eye to above front of lateral line, where it ends in blue dots; sides 

 paler posteriorly and below; fins dusky, the distal half of anal, most of 

 soft dorsal, and the whole of caudal and pectorals of a very intense light 

 yellow, deepest on the caudal; veutrals dusky-bluish, slightly tinged with 

 yellow; a small black spot in upper part of axil. Length 4 inches. 

 Snapper Banks oft' Pensacola and Tampa; known from numerous speci- 

 mens taken from stomachs of Snappers and Groupers. (£VXfJv6o<;, deep 

 golden; oupa, tail.) 



Chromis enckrysurus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus. 1882, 286, Pensacola, 

 Florida. (Type, No. 30871. Coll. Jordan.) 



622. EUPOMACENTRUS,*^ Bleeker. 



(PESCADO.S AZULE.S.) 



/ Parapomacentrns, Blkeker, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Weten., ii, 1877, 65 (polynema) ; 

 lower jaw scaly; snout scaly; spinous dorsal with membrane incised and lobed. 



? Amblypomacentrug, Bleeker, I. c, 68 (brevicepg) ; snout and lower jaw naked. 



EupomacentruSy Bleeker, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Weten., ii, 1877, 7:{ (lividus) ; snout 

 scaly; lower jaw naked; membranes of spinous dorsal not notcbed. 



Bi-ach;/pomacentrm, Bleeker, I.e., 1877, 73 {albifasciahn) ; as above; membrane of spi- 

 nous dorsal deeply notcbed. 



Body ovate, deep and compressed, the profile steep, iisually rounded. 

 Head moderate, nearly as deep as long, the snout scaly, the lower jaw 

 naked. Mouth quite small, terminal, the jaws equal; each .jaw armed 

 with a single close-set series of coiupressed, immovable teeth, which are 

 truncate at tip. Gill rakers long; preopercle more or less serrate; preor- 

 bital serrate. Scales large, strongly ctenoid, the lateral line running 

 parallel with the back to near the end of the dorsal fin, at which point it 

 ceases. Dorsal fin continuous, with 12 or 13 low stout spines; membrane 



* Tbe following is tbe .synonymy of the closely related Old World genus, Pomacentrus, 

 Lacepede, wbicb bas, as far as known, no American species : Pomacentrus, LACfipiiDE, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 508, 1802 (pavo) ; Pristotis, Ruppell, Neue Wirbeltbiere Fische 

 {cy nno stigma) ; Pseudopomacentrus, Bleeker, Naturb. Verb. Holl. Maatscb. weten. 1877, 

 39 (littoralis) ; teetb acutely angulated at tip. 



