924 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Indies; north to Florida. Eesembles D. for mosus, hni readily distin- 

 guished by the striped body. 



{Hccmulon elegans C. & V. v, 227: Hwmulon elegans Gliuther, i, 306.) 



Page 553. After Diahasis chrysopterus add: 

 873 (h). I>. cS»romas (Brouss.) 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. Back 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 Diahasis), the series from the scapular 



scale reaching Gth dorsal spine; preopercle well serrated. Longest 



dorsal spine 3J in head ; second anal spine strong, 2J in head, the fin 



high. Pectoral IJ in head. Head 3; depth 2f. ' D. XII, IS; A. Ill, 



7 ; Lat. 1. 42. West Indies ; north to Florida. 



(Perca cliromis Bronssonet -MSS : Hwrnvlon chromis C. &V. 242: Hcemulon chromis 

 Giinther, i, 310: Uwimilon serratum Foey, Memorias, ii, 181.) 



§•73 (c). I>. alMBS (C. & V.) J. & G. 



Color pale uniform plumbeous; no black spot behind angle of preo- 

 percle. Moutli wide, but the maxillary not reaching front of orbit; eye 

 6 in head, 21 in snout; preopercle finely and evenlj^ serrate, its poste- 

 rior limb nearly vertical. Dorsal fin scarcely notched, the sjnnes rather 

 strong, the fourth longest, 2^ in head; second and third anal spines 

 nearly equal in length and strength, rather more than half fourth dorsal 

 spine. Caudal forked. Head 3 J (in total); depth 3^. D. XII, 16; A. 

 Ill, 8 ; scales 7-50-16. West Indies ; north to Key West. {Poey.) 



(Hccmulon album Cuv. & Val. v, 241: Hamulon album Giiutlier, i, 311: Hamulon 

 album Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cnbens. IStJS, 312.) 



Page 553. To description of Diahasis chrysoiJterus add: 



Brownish-olive above; a narrow bronze band, darkest in young, from 

 snout, through eye, to base of caudal; abov^e 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- 



