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deeply forked. Brancbiostegals 5 or 0. Species numerous in the trop- 

 ical seas, (rrcy/za, opeiculum; y.-yTp<iv^ spine.) 



a. Preopercle serrate, at least iu the adult. {Pomacentnis.) 



95S. P. leaacostJctSBS Miiller &, Troschel. 



Dark brownish above, yellowish green on the sides and belly, yellow- 

 on the tail and caudal fin ; numerous roundish bluish-white spots on the 

 head, back, and soft i)ortions of the dorsal and anal fins, the dots being- 

 less numerous on the sides; sometimes nearly uniform brown, almost 

 unspotted ; no spot on the back of the tail ; a white dot on the base of 

 the la .t aual rays ; young with an ocellated dorsal spot and convergeut 

 blue bands on the snout; upper profile of head arched ; suborbital ring- 

 minutely denticulate posteriorly; preopercle serrulate; lower limb of 

 preopercle scaly; upper and lower teeth nearly equally broad, entire ; 

 caudal forked, the lobes rather pointed. Depth 2f in total. D. XII, 

 15; A. II, 13; scales 3-28-9. {Giinther.) West Indies, north to West 

 Florida. 



(Miiller & Troschel, Schombuvgk's Barbad. 674 ; Giiuther, iv, 31 ; Goode & Beau, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1879, 338.) 



aa. Preopercle entire. 



h. Teeth entire. {Rijpsypops* Gill.) 



©.jY. p. a'sabicnaid.us (Grd.) J. &. G. — Garibaldi. 



Uniform deep scarlet, unmarked ; edges of fins dusky. Body short 

 and deep, elevated, compressed, constricted behind the dorsal and anal, 

 the caudal peduncle short and deep; head higher than long, the preor- 

 bital i.nd suborbital regions being unusually deep ; preopercle entire ; 

 cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly ; mouth small ; lips thick ; teeth 

 compressed, narrow, blunt and entire, in a single row, dark at tips ; 

 gill-rakers short and flexible; preorbital anteriorly as wide as the eye; 

 cheeks with 5 or G rows of rather small scales, opercles with several 

 rows of larger ones; lips thick, the lower without frenum; soft fins 

 rather high; pectorals reaching nearly to vent. Head 3^^ ; depth l-]. D. 

 XII, IG; A. II, 15; scales 5-30-13; Lat. 1. on 21 scales. L. 12 inches. 

 Coast of California, south of Point Concepcion ; abundant about rocky 

 islands. 



{(rlyphisodon ruhicimdus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 148: Parma ruhi- 

 ■cmida Giiuther, iv, 58 : Eypsypops ruhicundis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18(33, 

 218.) 

 hb. Teeth emarginate. {Gli/pMdodon\ Lac^pede.) 



* Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 165 : type GbjpMsodon ruUcundus Grd. {v4>i, 

 high; VTto, below; cbtp, eye; in allusion to the high suborbital region.) 



\ GhjpMsodon Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 542, 1802: type Ghiplusodon moiicharra 

 Lac. = C/ucfofZoH saxat'dis Bloch. (xXvcpli, notch; oooyv, tooth.) 



