Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 114 1 



possibly the type of a valid genus. {dn(b%u», doubtful ; the author being 

 iu doubt as to whether the species belongs to Serranus.) 

 Serramts chihiiin, Poey, IMemorias, II, 142, 1860, Cuba. 

 Menephorus dubiiis, ToEy, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1869, 50. 

 Bodianits diihkis, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 380. 



1543. BODIANUS PI NCTIFERUS (Poey). 



Very similar to Bodianns duhiiis, differing in the more slender l^ody ; 

 the dJpth 4 in total length ; eye 5* iu head, 1^ in snout. Red, the blue 

 spots not covering the whole body, those on the head blue and very 

 small ; those on the body forming oblique series of dashes, rather linear 

 than rounded; iins l-spotted. (Poey.) Cuba. Known from one speci- 

 men, 10 inches long, probably a color variation of Bodianus dubim. {punc- 

 tum, point; fero, I bear.) 



Menephorus pnnctif ems, VOVY, Enumeratio, 21, 1875, Havana. 



Subgenus ENNEISTUS,* Jordan & Evermann. 



1544. BODIAXUS AtANTHISTIlS (Gilbert). 



Head 2t ; depth 2? ; eye large, equaling length of snout, 5 in length of 

 head; interorbital space narrow, convex, 6i in head. D. IX, 17; A. ill, 

 9 • scales 75, 56 pores. Mouth oblique, with mandible strongly projecting 

 the mandibular canines shutting outside of premaxillaries ^n closed 

 mouth; maxillary reaching vertical from behind pupil, its length half 

 that of head. Teeth in sides of mandible in 2 perfectly defined series 

 separated by a narrow groove-like interval; outer teeth nearly erect and 

 ri£id the inner series directed obliquely inward and very slightly mov- 

 able (not strictly depressible); a patch of smaller movable teeth a sym- 

 physis, with the customary pair of canines in front of them ; premaxillax.es 

 wilh an outer series of strong teeth, terminating anteriorly in the double 

 pair of enlarged canines; behind this series a wide band of minute vil i- 

 form teeth, only slightly movable ; wide bands of similar vilhform teeth 

 on vomer and palatines, the vomerine patch without backward iM-olonga- 

 tion along median line; tongue smooth; nostrils close together, the 

 posterior round and much the larger, the anterior with a ^ap. Preopercle 

 minutely serrulate on hinder margin, which is convexly rounded, ashal- 

 low notlh above the angle, which is provided with 2 or 3 --^^ - ^^^J^ 

 coarsely toothed; lower margin smooth, -*-«• ^^^^.^^^^'^ .^^'j;,*^ 

 stroncr 17 below angle, the anterior short; opercle with 3 fla spinous 

 poTntl Scales with Entire edges, those on opercles and on muldleot sides 

 [he largest, smaller above lateral line and along ventral «;/l-^' ^^^^^ 

 ingmuch reduced on breast and head (except opercles) fandible with 

 a Few embedded scales, maxillary and premaxiUary wholly °aked, ^op 

 and sides of head wholly scaled, including both limbs of preopercle and 



*This subgenus seems close to Bodianus, fron. -^^^^^^^^ \l Jta'/Xax. "Th'chamf- 

 {:-te£^m^rCSIcJ:^pK£Sn s;:c4,but .r. Bonlenger is 

 probably right in placing it with the group here called Bod^aun,. 



