1692 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum, 



Teuthis hepatus, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 507, 1766, Carolina; after Hepatus mucrone 

 reflexo, Gkonow. 



Ohcetodiin chirurgut, Bloch, Ausl. Fiscli., 99, pi. 208, No. 24, 1784, Martinique ; ou a draw- 

 ing by Plumier. 



Acanthunis hepatus, Bloch «fc Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 211, 1801; in part, not of later 

 writer.s. 



Aeanthurvs phlcbotomus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi88.,x, 176, 1835, Martin- 

 ique, Brazil, Havana, New York; Poey, Eepertorio, I, 256, 1867; POEY, Synopsis, 

 245, fig. 7, 1868 



Acronurusfuscus, Geonow, Cat. Fishes, Ed. Gray, 119, 1854 (same type as T. hepatus L.) 



Acro7iurus carneus, Poey, Memoiras, ii, 207, I860, Cuba ; young. 



Acanthurus chirurgus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hi.st. Nat. Poiss., s, 168, 1835; Gunther, 

 Cat.,iii, 329, 1861; Poey, Synopsis. 355, 1868 ; Jordan.*.- Gilbert, Synopsis, 617, 1883. 



Acanthurug nigricans, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 941, 1883; not Ghcetodon nigricans, 

 LinniBus, from tbe Red Sea. 



Teuthis hepatus, Meek & Hoffman, I. c, 229, 1884. 



2107. TEUTHIS CKEISTONIS, Jordan & Starks. 



(Barbero Negko.) 



Head 3^; depth If,. D.IX,26; A.IH,24; suout Ij in head; eye 3*^; pec- 

 toral eiiual to head ; caudal i; longer than head; longest dorsal spine equal- 

 ing longest soft ray, li in head; ventral 1! in head. Body deep and com- 

 pressed, the anterior profile steep, convex hefore eye; caudal lunate, the 

 upper ray ^ longer than middle one, ventrals very long. Body slaty 

 hrown, mottled with gray but without bands; dorsal with a bluish gray 

 band at base, then a bronze one, forking on soft dorsal, inclosing a bluish 

 gray band ; 5 gray bauds and 4 bronze ones on dorsal more or less distinct, 

 especially in young; anal with 5 bluish gray and 5 bnmze bands more 

 obli(iue than those on dorsal and hence not continuous the whole length 

 of tin ; caudal peduncle bhick, a whitish yellow cross band behind spine, 

 faint in adult, the anterior margin vertical, the posterior concave; rest 

 of caudal black; pectoral yellowish; ventrals dusky, the spine black. 

 Adult with the pectoral quite yellow; pale baud at base of caudal grow- 

 ing faint with age ; a blue streak along base of dorsal. Length 8 to 10 

 inches. Kocky shores on the west coast of Mexico from Mazatlan to 

 Panama; common at Mazatlan. Also obtained by Dr. Gil))ert in 1881 

 at Mazatlan and Panama. These specimens having been destroyed by 

 fire, have never been described, and were provisionally and incorrectly 

 referred to the West Indian species Teuthis tractits (hahianns), from which 

 this species difiers in a few respects. (Xained for Creston * Island, a com- 

 manding peak in the harbor of Mazatlan at the base of which this species 

 abounds.) 



Teuthis crestonis, Jordan & Starks, Tishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 485, pi. 47, 

 Mazatlan. (Type, No. 2899, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Hopkins expedition to Sinaloa.) 



* " Beyond the headland with its palm tree lone 

 Flashes the beacon light on tall Creston ; 

 The last and hauglitiestof tlie craggy horde. 

 Sierra Madre sends forth oceanward." 



