54 BULLETIX 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIOXAL MUSEUM 



New South Wales, Japan. A comparison of the type CaiaZufa 

 umbra shows it to be synonymous. It shows gill rakers 10+21 and 

 the edge of the gill opening along opercle and subopercle pale, also 

 caudal base deep brown in contrast with fin. 

 29003 U.S.N.M. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length 167 mm. 



59908 U.S.N.M. Port Jackson. D. Stead. Length 182 mm. 



59909 U.S.N.M. Port Jackson. D. Stead. Length 164 mm. 



68229 U.S.N.M. Misaki, Sagami, Japan. Albatross Collection 1906. Length 

 163 mm. Type of Catalufa umbra. 



Subgenus Priacanthopsis Fowler 



Scales largely cycloid, at least those on flanks, often only those 

 on body edges weakly or partially ctenoid. 



PEMPHEKIS MEXICANUS Cuvier 



Pempheris mexicana Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 308. Acapulco. 

 Pem-pheris mexicanus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 



1, 1896, p. 978 (note on type). 

 Pempheris schomburgki MtJixER and Troschel, Hist. Barbados Schomburgk, 



1845, p. 669, Barbados. — Steindachner, Sitz Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



48, 1863, p. 208 (Cuba).— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 9, 1886, p. 38 



(Havana) ; vol. 13. 1890, p. 317 (Bahia, Brazil). 

 Pempheris mUlleri Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, vol. 2, 1860, p. 203. Cuba. — 



Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 1, 1896, p. 978.— 



Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 122 (Saint Martin's, 



West Indies) ; 1919. p. 137 (same material). 

 Pempheris mullerii Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, ser, 2, vol. 14, 1871, p. 472 



(Saint Martin's example). 

 Pempheris poeyi Bean, Pi'oc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8. 1885. p. 229. Havana. — 



Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 1, 1896, p. 979 



(copied). 

 Pempheris schreineri Ribeiro, Arch, Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, vol. 17, 1915, 



fasc. Pempheridae, p. 2. Fernando Noronha. 



Depth 214 to 23/5; head 3 to Si/g, width 2 to "1%. Snout 3% to 

 414 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout or 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches y^ to % in eye, expansion 2^5 to 3 

 in eye, length 1% to 2 in head from snout tip; teeth in villiform 

 bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines, none on tongue; interorbital 

 314 to 2,%^ convex. Gill rakers 5 or 6 + 15 to 18, lanceolate, 2% in 

 eye; gill filaments % of gill rakers. 



Scales 47 to 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 15 to 17 more 

 on caudal medially; 1 to 4 scales above lateral line, 16 to 18 below, 

 35 predorsal forward nearly to front edge of snout. Scales largely 

 cycloid, only few along edges of predorsal, caudal peduncle, back 

 and chest slightly or weakly ctenoid. Scales with 8 to 10 basal 

 radiating striae; circuli very fine. 



D. IV or V, 8, I or 9, i, first branched ray 11/3 to 1% in total head 

 length ; A. Ill, 24, i and 32, i, first branched ray 214 to 21^! ; caudal 



