62G CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
245 A. ir, 23; scales lG-125-40. L. 40 inches. Monterey, southward, 
abnndant about the Santa Barbara Islands; a food-fish of considerable 
importance. 
{1 Latihis princeps Jcnyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 52 (TTom Galai)agos Islands): De- 
luya anomala Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. iii, 71, 1864: Caidolatilus anomalus, 
priitaps, and affiins Gill, Proc. Acad. N.at. Sci. I’hila. 1865, 68: CauIoJaUlus anomahis 
Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns. vii, 48, 1877: 1 Latihis 2 }rinceps Gunther, ii, 253.) 
971, C. clBB’ysops (C. & V.) Gill. — Blanquillo. 
Reddish, marked with yellow; a yellow band below the eye and a 
dark axillary blotch. Body rather robust. Interorbital width half 
length of snont. Snout longer than maxillary. Eye small, G in length, 
of head in adult. Fins rather short; caudal slightly ernarginate; pec- 
toral not reaching origin of anal, not one-fourth of total length. Head 
34; depth 3^ in length. D. YII-2.5; A. I, 23; Lat. 1. 120; 1. transv. 48. 
{Goode tO Bean.) Pensacola, Fla., and southward. 
G Latihis chrysops Ciiv. & Val. ix, 496, 1833 (from Brazil): 1 Latihis chrysoqys Giinther, 
ii, 253: ’! Caulolatihis cyanops Poey, Rept. Fis. Nat. i, 312, 1867 (Cuba): Caulolatihis 
micrujis Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 43, 1878. The characters ascribed to 
tlie latter s[)ecies, being details of form only, may be due to age, as greater differences 
occur between young and old of C. princeps.) 
Family CII (&).— TRICHODONTID^. 
( The Sa n d -fishes. ) 
Body rather elongate, moderately compressed, naked. Head short, 
flat on top, the sides vertical. Eyes large, high up, but not superior. 
Mouth large, almost vertical; lower jaw projecting, its tip entering the 
profile; lips fringed; premaxillaries protractile; maxillary very broad, 
without supplemental bone, not slipping under the very narrow preor- 
bital. Teeth moderate, slender and sharp, but not setiform, in bands 
on jaws and vomer; palatines toothless; inner teeth of jaws depressible. 
Gill-rakers very short; gill-membranes narrowly united, free from the 
isthmus. Branchiostegals 5. Gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Preop- 
ercle with 5 prominent spines, the two upper directed strongly upward, 
the two lower downward, the middle one downward and backward; no 
barbels; opercle small, strongly striate, unarmed ; preorbital with spines; 
no suborbital stay. Lateral line obsolete. Dorsal fins separate, the first 
the larger, of numerous slender, low spines; anal fin elongate, without 
distinct spines, the rays of the anterior third of the fin much shorter 
than the others; pectorals with a very broad, curved, procurrent base; 
a broad Innate area between pectoral and gill-opening, nearly covered 
by the opercle; soft rays of dorsal, anal, and pectoral fins all simple; 
