924 CONTEIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
Indies; north to Florida. Eesembles D. formosiis, hut readily distin- 
guished by the striped body. 
{Ilwmulon elegans C. & V. v, : Hcemulon elegans Giiutlier, i, 306.) 
Page 553. After Biahasis chryso2)terus add : 
§73 (?>). 1>. cBu’OBBBBS (Bi’ouss.) J. & G. 
Light olive; each scale with a large dark spot; these forming very 
distinct interrupted stripes along the rows of scale; lower fins dusky; 
a dusky blotch at angle of preopercle. Young with 2 or 3 longitudinal 
blackish streaks. Pack somewhat elevated; maxillary reaching just 
past front of eye, 2| in head. Series of scales above lateral line very 
oblique (as in all our species of Biahasis), the series from the scaiudar 
scale reaching Cth dorsal spine; preoiiercle well serrated. Longest 
dorsal spine 2 J in head ; second anal spine strong, 2^ in head, the fin 
high. Pectoral in head. Head 3; depth 2f. D. XII, 18; A. Ill, 
7 ; Lat. 1. 42. West Indies; north to Florida. 
(Ferca chromis Broussonet MSS: IlwmnJon chromis C. & V. 242: Hwmulon cliromis 
Giiutlier, i, 310: Ilccmulon serratumFoQj, Memorias, ii, 181.) 
873 (c). I>. jaSBjms (C. & V.) J. & G. 
Color pale uniform plumbeous; no black spot behind angle of preo- 
percle. Mouth wide, but the maxillary not reaching front of orbit; eye 
6 in head, 2| in snout; preopercle finely and evenly serrate, its poste- 
rior limb nearly vertical. Dorsal fin scarcely notched, the spines rather 
strong, the fourth longest, 2^ in head; second and third anal spines 
nearly equal iu length and strength, rather more than half fourth dorsal 
spine. Caudal forked. Head 3^ (iu total); depth 3^. D. XII, 16; A. 
111,8; scales 7-50-lG. West Indies; north to Key West. (Poey.) 
(Hcemulon album Cuv. & Val. v, 241: Hcemulon alburn Giintlier, i, 311: Hcemulon 
alburn Foey, Synopsis Pise. Cubeus. 1868, 312.) 
Page 553. To description of Biahasis cJirysopterus add : 
Brownish-olive above; a narrow bronze baud, darkest in young, from 
snout, through eye, to base of caudal; above this two or three dark 
streaks from eye to above gill-opening; another beginning on top of 
snout on each side, passing above eye, and extending parallel with the 
first-mentioned stripe straight to last ray of dorsal, where it meets its 
fellow of the opposite side; a dark streak from tip of snout along me- 
