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faint broad cross-bars, the anterior from base of first dorsal to ventrals, 
the next from middle of soft dorsal to anal; tip of snout and chin black; 
an oblique bar below eye; spinous dorsal, pectoral, and ventral black, 
edged with white; edges of caudal yellowish; anal with brown points 
anteriorly. Head 3} to 34 in total length; depth the same. D. X-I, 37 
or 38; A. IT, 7; lat. 1. 50.] (Steindachner.)........-.. 25.- PULCHER, 111) 
aa. Dorsal rays XIV or XV-I, 53; about twelve of the anterior interneurals wedged 
in between the occiput and the neural spine of the third vertebra; pro- 
file almost vertical, the distance from tip of snout to first dorsal spine 
much less than depth of body. (Zques.) 
d. Body deepest below first dorsal spine, rapidly tapering to the narrow caudal 
peduncle ; profile very steep, little convex; eye little longer than snout, 
about 4 in head ; preorbital broad, nearly as wide as eye; mouth small, 
slightly oblique; maxillary reaching to below anterior fourth of eye; 
teeth all villiform in broad bands, the outer scarcely enlarged ; preopercle 
with a fringed membranous border; gill-rakers very short and slender, 
6+-9; anterior dorsal spines much elongate, 1? in body ; soft rays low, 
the membranes scaled to the tips; anal small; its second spine 3 in head; 
ventrals 14 in head; pectorals scarcely shorter ; color, light yellowish; a 
narrow brownish band from the corner of the mouth up across the mid- 
dle of the eye, and meeting its fellow on top of head; another broader 
band edged with a narrow white line on each side from the nape down 
and back over opercle, meeting its fellow between the ventral fins and 
extending to the tips of their outer rays; a third and still broader band, 
also bordered by white, extending from the tips of the dorsal spines to 
their base, then downward and backward to the tips of the middle cau- 
dalrays; body below this band silvery white; above it somewhat darker. 
Head 4 in length; depth 22%. D. XIV to XVI-I, 53; A. II, 5; scales 
irregular, with smaller ones intermixed... ............LANCEOLATUS, 112. 
109. EQUES ACUMINATUS. 
a. Var. acuminatus. 
Grammistes acuminatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 184, 1801. 
Eques acuminatus Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares de l’Amér. du Sud, 10, 1855. Giin- 
ther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 280, 1860 (Cuba). Poey, Memorias, ii, 370, 1861 
(Cuba); Synopsis, 325,1868 (Cuba). Cope, Ichthyol. Lesser Antilles, 471, 1870 
(St. Croix). Poey, Enumeratio, 49, 1875 (Cuba). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North 
America, 94, 1885 (name only). 
Pareques acuminatus Goode, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., v, 50, 1876 (Bermudas). Bean, In- 
ternat, Fish. Exhib. Berlin, 54, 1883 (Key West). 
Eques lineatus Cuv. &. Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1830, 169 (Brazil). 
b. Var. umbrosus. 
Sciena acuminata Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North Am., 573, 1883 (Pensacola). 
Eques acuminatus umbrosus Jordan & Eigenmann, var. nov. (Charleston; Pensacola). 
Habitat.—West Indian fauna, South Carolina to Brazil; var. wmbrosus 
on the United States coast. 
This species is not uncommon in the West Indies. In several respects 
it differs widely from the type of the genus Hques, in all these respects 
approaching the type of the genus Sciena. It however seems,impos- 
sible to regard Pareques as a genus distinct from ques, as in several 
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