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deeply forked. Brancbiostegals 5 or 0. Species numerous in the trop- 
ical seas. (-W//.6!, operculum; spine.) 
a. Rreopercle seiTatt', at least ill tlie adult. {Pomaceiitrus.) 
056. I*. ICMCOSJictslS Miiller & Troschel. 
Dark brownish above, yellowish green on the sides and belly, yellow 
on the tail and caudal fin ; numerous roundish bluish-white spots on the 
head, back, and soft portions of the dorsal and anal tins, the dots being’ 
less numerous on the sides; sometimes nearly uniform brown, almost 
unsiiotted; no si)ot on the back of the tail ; a white dot on the base of 
the last anal rays ; young with an ocellated dorsal spot and convergent 
blue bands on the snout; upper jirofile of head arched ; suborbital ring 
minutely denticulate posteriorly; preopercle serrulate; lower limb of 
preopercle scaly; upper and lower teeth nearly equally broad, entire ; 
caudal forked, the lobes rather pointed. Depth 2|- in total. D. XII, 
15; A. II, 13; scales 3-28-9. {Gihither.) West Indies, north to West 
Florida. 
(Miiller & Troschel, Schoinbnrgk’s Barbad. 674; Gunther, iv, 31; Goode & Bean, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 338.) 
.««. Preopercle entire. 
h. Teeth entire. (Hypsypops* Gill.) 
OSY. P. ria3>icnaii«lsis (Grd.) J. & G. — Garibaldi, 
Uniform deep scarlet, unmarked ; edges of fins dusky. Body short 
and deep, elevated, comiiressed, constricted behind the dorsal and anal, 
the caudal peduncle short and deep; head higher than long, the jireor- 
bital and suborbital regions being unusually deep ; preopercle entire; 
cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly ; mouth small ; lips thick ; teeth 
compressed, narrow, blunt and entire, in a single row, dark at tips; 
gill-rakers short and flexible; preorbital anteriorly as wide as the eye; 
cheeks with 5 or G rows of rather small scales, opercles with several 
rows of larger ones; lips thick, the lower without freuum; soft fins 
rather high; pectorals reaching nearly' to vent. Head 3^ ; depth If . D. 
XII, 1C; A. 11, 15; scales 5-30-13; Lat. 1. on 21 scales. L. 12 inches. 
Coast of California, south of Point Concepcion; abundant about rocky 
islands- 
{Ghjphhodon rtibicundus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 148: Parma rubi- 
•onida Gihither, iv, 58: Ilypsyvops rnbicundi s Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 
21H.) 
hb. Teeth einarginate. {Glyphidodonj Lac^iiede. ) 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 165: type Glyphisodon rubicundus Gvd. {vrpt, 
high; V7to, below; (OTp, eye; in allusion to the high suborbital region.) 
\ GhipMsodon Laedpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 542, 1802: type Glyphisodon moucharra 
'Liic. = Chwtodon saxatilis Bloch. {yXvq}ii, notch; oooov, tooth.) 
