G12 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
boily with simill round brown spots, which form more or less regular 
series; soft dorsal and caudal densely spotted. Body oblong, some- 
Avhat regularly elliptical. Head blunt, short, and deep, the profile ab- 
inptly descending to the snout. Lips thick, the lower without frenum. 
Teeth moderate, conical, in about two series, the inner very small. 
Cheeks, opercles, and lop of head scaly. Spines stiff and low. Cau- 
dal forked ; pectorals and ventrals long. Head 4 ; depth 2^. D. XII, 
11; A. II, 10; scales 4-29-10; 18 in course of lateral line; L. 9 inches. 
Bacitic coast, north to Point Concepcion; not rare. 
(Ai)rcsia punctipiunis Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1833, 73.) 
901. C. iDDSOSa-fsJS (Cuv. & Val.) .1. & G. 
Dark brownish, with metallic refiections ; eacli scale on the head and 
anterior part of the body with a blue spot ; young with two blue lines 
along the forehead convergent on the snout, and with a black spot im- 
mediately behind the dorsal fin. Caudal fin emarginate, with rounded 
lobes. Second anal spine more than half the length of the head ; dor- 
sal spines high; ventrals long; pectorals moderate. Depth 2; D. XIII, 
12; A. II, 12; scales 2-28-9 ; cceca 2. West Indies, north to Southern 
Florida. 
(HAiases insolatus Cuv. & Val. v, 494 : HeHa>ites inisolatiis Giiuther, iv, Gl.) 
Family XCVII — EPHIPPID.E. 
(The Angel-fishes.) 
Body'com[)ressed, usually greatly elevated, the anterior profile steep. 
Scales moderate or small, ctenoid, densely covering the soft parts of the 
vertical fins ; lateral line present, following the curve of the back. Mourh 
small, terminal, horizontal; premaxillaries protractile; maxillary short, 
without supplemental bone, partly slipping under the preorbital ; jaws 
with bands of slender, pointed, movable, brush -like teeth; preopercle 
usucilly very finely' serrated ; gill-membranes broadly attached to the 
isthmus, the openings restricted to the sides ; branchiostegals 6 or 7 ; 
pyloric coeca fe w ; gill-rakers very short ; psendobranchia; present. Dor- 
sal fins 2, somewhat connected ; the first of 8 to 11 spines, which are 
depressible in a groove; soft dorsal and anal fins anteriorly high, their 
bases thickened by the scales; anal spines 3 or 4, short; caudal fin 
truncate or nearly so; pectorals short; ventrals long, thoracic, I, 5; 
air-bladder large, commonly bifurcate in front, and with two slende 
horns behind. As here understood, a group of 4 genera and about 10 
