96. POMACENTRID.E— CHEOMIS. 
611 
f>5§, P. COESCOlOB” (Gill) J. & G. 
Dark olive, with 5 or C vague, dark cross-bands; i^ectoral with a 
tapering’, black transverse line at base. Interorbital space convex, 
wider than orbit; breadth of infraorbital ring two-thirds the greatest 
breadth of the i^reorbital. Teeth rather broad, deeply notched. Depth 
14. D. XII, 12; A. II, 9; scales 3-25-10. {Giinther.) Both coasts of 
Central America, north to Florida Keys. 
{Euscliislodiis concolor Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862, 14.6: GUjphidodon cou- 
color Giiutlicr, iv, 37 : Ghjphklodoti concolor Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu.s. 1879, 
338.) 
959» Po saxataBas (Linn.) J. & G. — Coir-pilot; Mojarra. 
Greenish olive; head and fins dark; body with 5 or G black cross- 
bands, which are rather narrower than the interspaces; the first from 
the origin of the dorsal to the pectoral fin, the second downwards from 
fourth and fifth dorsal spines, the third from the ninth and tenth dorsal 
spines toward the vent, the fourth from end of spinous dorsal to middle 
of anal, the fifth below the end of the soft dorsal and continued on the 
posterior rays of dorsal and anal; a faint sixth bar at base of caudal. 
Soft dorsal and anal fins produced, the fourth and fifth rays of dorsal, 
and the fifth and sixth of anal, longest. Eye rather large, about as 
long as snout. Head rather short, 31 in length; deiith If. D. XIII, 
11; A. II, 13; Lat. 1. 27 ; iiores on 21 scales. Tropical seas of Amer- 
ica ; occasional on our South Atlantic coast. 
{Chcctodon saxatilis Linn. Syst. Nat.: Gli/pliidodon saxatilis Giinther, iv, 35: Ghjphi- 
dodon saxatilis Goode, Ball. U. S. Nat. Mns. v, 38.) 
326.— Cfl3K®.^aiS Cnvier. 
(Heliastes Cuv. & Val. : Furcaria Eoey : Ayresia Cooper. 
(Cuvier, Mdmoires dn Mns. d’Hist. Nat. 1815 : type Spams ch7'omis L. = Chromis casinrca 
Risso, of the Mediterranean.) 
Body rather deep. Preopercle entire. Mouth small; teeth small, 
conical, in two or more series, the outer larger. Scales rather large. 
21-30 in a longitudinal series. Dorsal fin with 12-11 spines. Branchi- 
ostegals normally 5. Pyloric coeca 2. Gill-rakers long and slendei’. 
Tropical seas; species numerous. Hie ancient name of some 
fish, probably a Scitenoid, from to neigh, from the noise made 
by the fish; akin to our names Grunter, Croaker, Drum, Hog-fish.) 
96®o C, pMESCttHpiaaDiis Cooper. — Blaclcsmith. 
Dark slaty blackish, with violet lustre above; some of the scales 
with a greenish spot or edging; fins bluish black; posterior part of 
