Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 1675 



in series running upward and bacliward, the series not marked by contin- 

 uous l)lack streaks, either xdaiu or with dusky spots; lateral line extend- 

 ing to lielow posterior end of soft dorsal. Color golden gray; the black 

 ocular baud narrower than eye, edged Avith pale, exteuding from nape 

 across eye and over cheek and iuteropercle; humeral band present, broader 

 than eye, exteuding from front of spinous dorsal through base of pectoral 

 to ventral; a broad baud from last dorsal spines to base of anal; soft dor- 

 sal and anal with a dark band parallel with the margin ; 3 dark l)ands 

 across caudal peduncle at base of fin ; caudal fin with a faint band ; ven- 

 trals dark ; pectoral and edges of vertical fins pale. Pacific coast of tropical 

 America from Guaymas to Panama;* very common, especially about rocks. 

 Length 8 inches. A handsome little fish, {humeralis, pertaining to the 

 shoulder from the broad humeral band.) 



Chcetodon humeralis, Gunther, Cat., II, 19, 1860, Sandwich Islands (by error) ; GI'nther, 

 Fishes Central America, 419, pi. 65, fig. 3, 1866; Eigenmann & Horning, I. c. 8, 1887; 

 EvERMANN & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua. 1891, 160. 



2088. CH.ETODOX SEDEMARIUS, Poey. 



Head 3k ; depth If. D. XIII, 23 ; A. Ill, 19 ; scales 7-38-17. Body rather 

 deep, the back elevated; snout subcouical, somewhat produced, scarcely 

 as long as eye, the profile concave. Dorsal and anal somewhat rounded 

 behind. Eows of scales extending upward and backward on upper parts 

 of body, those above most oblique, those of sides of belly mostly nearly 

 horizontal; no dark streaks along scales. Body yellowish, dusky above; 

 ocular band dusky, very broad above, narrower below, edged with whit- 

 ish above in front, and broadly margined with yellow behind above, 

 continued below across the iuteropercle, the edgings merging below to 

 silvery; a very broad dark-brown vertical band from extremity of dorsal 

 across tail over posterior half of soft dorsal and anal, edged behind with 

 white; caudal and ventrals pale. West Indies; rather scarce ; our speci- 

 men taken by the Albatross at St. Lucia, (sedentarius, quiet, prone to sit.) 



Chcetodon sedentarius, Poey, Memorias, n, 203, 1860, Cuba; Eigenmann & Horning, I. c, 



8, 1887. 

 Chcetodon gracilis, Gunther, Cat., il, 20, 1860, Caribbean Sea; West Indies. 

 Sarothrodits sedentarius, Poey, Syuopsis, 364, 1868. 



2089. CH-ETODOX AYA, Jordan. 



Head 2^; depth 1^; snout 2J in head. 1). XII, 18; A. Ill, 17; scales 

 9-36-17. Body short and deep, strongly compressed. Snout narrow, 

 sharp, considerablj' produced, its outline forming in front of eye a sharp 

 angle with the profile of the head; anterior profile steep and straigbt 

 from before eye to first dorsal spine; eye large, about as long as snout 

 (in young), a little longer than post-orbital part of head. Dorsal fin 

 high, the second spine highest, very strong, as long as head; soft dorsal 



* Erroneously attributed to the Sandwich Islands by Dr. GUnther ; the types probably 

 from Panama. 



