Jordan a^id Evcrmann. — Fishes of North Atiierica. 1671 



657. PROGNATHODES, Gill. 



Proc/nathodes, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 238 (pclta^aculcatus: name only) . 



This genus is intermediate between Chelmon and Choetodon, having the 

 produced snout of the former and a iin formula more like that usually 

 seen in the latter. Scales large. One species known. (TCpd, before; 

 yvdBo^, jaw; sido?, likeness.) 



2083. PKOGXATHODES ACULEATUS (Poey). 



Head 3; depth 2. D. XIII, 19; A. Ill, 15; scales 8-40-19. Snout mod- 

 erately prodiiced, about i length of head ; profile steep, concave. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to middle of snout. Angle of preopercle rounded, minutely 

 serrate. Dorsal spines long and very strong; fourth spine 2 in depth; 

 membrane between spines deeply notched; soft anal higher than soft 

 dorsal, their basal halves alone scaled; caudal truncate. Uniform reddish 

 brown, with shining longitudinal streaks, following the series of scales; 

 spinous dorsal and its base blackish ; soft dorsal bordered with orange ; 

 other fins yellowish or colorless ; border of opercle orange ; ocular band 

 dark, narrower than eye, without paler border, not extending below eye. 

 (Giinther.) West Indies. Known ouly from the accounts of Giinther and 

 Poey. {aculeatus, spine.) 



Ohelmon aculeatiis, Poey, Memorias, ii, 202, July, 1860, Havana. 

 Ghelmo pelta, Gunther, Cat., n, 38, September, 1860, locality unknown. 

 Prognathodes acvleatus. Poet, Synopsis, 354, 1868; Eigbnmann .S:. Horning, Ann. N. T. 

 Ac. Sci., rv, 1887, 2. 



658. FORCIPIGER, .Jordan & McGregor. 

 Forcipiger, Jordan & McGregor, new genus (longirostris) . 



This genus dift'ers from Chelmon, Cuvier, in the long and high spinous 

 dorsal, which is composed of 12 stout spines (9 in Chelmon). The snout, 

 as in Chelmon, is very long and slender, bearing the short, forcep-like 

 jaws at the end. From Frof/nathodes, a genus still more closely related, 

 Forcipujer difiers in the small scales, there being about 75 in a horizontal 

 seiies. Pacific Ocean. Two closely related siiecies known — F. loiujiroi^tris 

 (Cuvier & Valenciennes) from the East Indies, aud the following, {forceps, 

 tweezers ; gero, I bear. ) 



2084. FORCIPIGER FLAVISSIMCS, Jordan .t McGregor, new species. 



Head 2^; depth 2; eye 6^ in head. D. XII, 22; A. Ill, 17; snout If in 

 head. Body short, strongly compressed, its outline angular; anterior 

 profile very steep, concave. Mouth small, at the tip of the projecting 

 snout; cleft of mouth 1^ m eye. Scales quite small, ctenoid, 9-75-35, 

 irregularly placed, smaller on head aud bases of fins, the rows along lateral 

 line parallel with it only anteriorly, those below run horizontally on lower 

 parts of the body and irregularly upward and backward above; lateral 

 line concurrent with the back. Dorsal spines extremely strong, fifth 



