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with age, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye in 

 young till opposite front eye edge with age, expansion 2)^ to 3 in eye, 

 length 2^^ to 3 ; jaws with very narrow row of feeble or obsolete minute 

 teeth; palate edentulous; interorbital 3K to 4Ko, nearly level or with 

 slight median depression; preopercle edge with fine serrae. Gill 

 rakers 10 + 21, fine lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments of % of eye. 



Scales with 80 to 85 in lateral line to caudal base and 20 to 25? more 

 on latter; tubes 61 to 75 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 or 7 more 

 on latter; 9 or 10 above, 13 or 14 below, 50 to 58 predorsal, 7 or 8 rows 

 on cheek to preopercle ridge; caudal scaly basally, fins otherwise 

 largely naked. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; 31 to 34 

 small apical denticles with 3 to 5 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli moderate. 



D. XV or XVI-I, 9, i or 10, i, sixth spine 2}^ to 2% in total head 

 length, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 3 to 3}^, first ray 2% to 2%; 

 caudal Iji to Iji, deeply forked, slender lobes sharply pointed; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 4^; pectoral IK to 2; ventral 2 to 2}^. 



Back pale brown, sides and below whitish, with silvery white sheen. 

 Narrow brown band from eye above along upper side of back to origin 

 of upper caudal lobe; above another narrower line parallel along dorsal 

 bases and below 2 others, of which lower moderately wide from eye to 

 middle of caudal base and embracing lateral line posteriorly. 



Bermuda, Cuba, Curagao. Said to reach 200 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 21253. Bermuda. Dr. W. H. Jones. Length, 97 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 33121. Cuba. Prof. F. Poey. Length, 125 mm?. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 33124. Cuba. Prof. F. Poey. Length, 123 mm?. 



Genus ERYTHROCLES Jordan 



Erythrocles Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1919, p. 341. (Type, 

 Emmelichthys schlegeli Jordan, proposed to replace Erythrichthys Schlegel.) 



Erythrichthys (not Bonaparte, 1831) Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 7-9, 

 p. 117, 1845. (No species name given.) (Type, Emmelichthys schlegeli 

 Richardson.) 



Last dorsal spines connected by membranes, spines 11, hind ones 

 low and last spine longer than penultimate. 



ERYTHROCLES SCHLEGELI (Richardson) 



Emmelichthys schlegeli Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 272, 1846 (type 

 locality: Sea of Japan) (on Erythrichthys Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 

 pt. 1, p. 117, pi. 63, fig. 1, 1842, Nagasaki). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. 

 Genootsch (Japan), vol. 26, p. 20, 1857 (on Schlegel). — Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 239 (Muscat). 



Emmelichthys schlegelii GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 395, 1859 

 (compiled).- — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 82, 1901 

 (Nagasaki and Yokohama). 



Erythrichthys schlegelii Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 

 23, pt. 1, p. 245, fig. 102, pi. 19, 1903 (1905) (Hilo).— Zugmayek, Abh. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 11, 1913 (Oman). — Izuka 

 and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., p. 147, 1920 (Osaka). — 



