C02 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
rays twice as long as the median. {Goode.) D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 11; 
scales 5-32-13. West Indies, north to Florida Keys. 
{Labnts rvfus L. Syst. Nat. i, 284: Cossyphns riifus Guuther, iv, 108; Gill, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 222; Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. v, 37 : Cossyphus bodianus 
Cuv. & Val. xii, 103: Bodianus rufua Poey, Rej). Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 331.) 
aa. Base of dorsal not scaly; scales rather small; vertical fius little produced. (Pitne- 
lomttopon* Gill.) 
945. II. piilclii'cl (Ayres) J. & G. — Ecd-fish; Fat-head. 
Males with the head, dorsal, anal, and caudal fius, and the posterior 
part of the body, as far as the vent, purplish black; middle part of the 
body, pectoral fin, middle of caudal, and ])osterior edge of dorsal red, 
varying in tint from clear crimson to blackish, with coppery or purplish 
lustre; region about shoulder-girdle reddest; lower jaw in both sexes 
abruptly and entirely white; females dusky rose-colored, with the black 
areas ill defined or obsolete. Forehead in the adult with a very ijrom- 
inent fatty hump. Gill-rakers short, thickish. Caudal fin truncate, the 
lobes in the adult produced and pointed. Scales on breast small ; pre- 
opercle serrulate in young. Head 3^ ; depth 3. D. XII, 10 ; A. Ill, 
12; Lat. 1. G2. L. 30 inches. Coast of California, from Point Con- 
cepcion southwards ; very abundant. Dried in immense numbers by 
the Chinese. 
{Labrus pudcher Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 3, 1854: Semicossyphus pitlcher 
Guuther, iv, 99; Pimelometopon ptdcher Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 59.) 
319.— PJLATYGLOSSUS Bleeker. 
Boncellas. 
(Ilalichoeres Ruppell, preoccupied: Chocrojulis Gill.) 
(Klein; Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1861, 411: type Julia annitlaria C. & V.) 
Body oblong, compressed, not elevated, covered with large scales, 
there being 25-30 in the course of the lateral line, which is not inter- 
rupted, but abruptly bent posteriorly. Scales on breast rather smaller. 
Head naked, comiiressed, conic. Preoiiercle entire. Teeth large, each 
jaw with two to four canines in front, none of them bent backwards; a 
posterior canine tooth directed forwards on each side*, of the uiiper jaw. 
Dorsal spines nine; anal spines three, graduated; veutrals inserted 
under axil of pectoral. Gill-rakers short and leeble; gill-membranes 
slightly joined to a narrow isthmus. Species numerous, brilliantly col- 
ored, abounding in kelp in the tropical seas, (v-iary?, broad ; 
tongue; an old name without evident application.) 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 58: type Labrua pitZe/ie?' Ayres. {nipeXoi, 
fat; laeroTtov, forehead.) 
