SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 449 



hesitate to admit L. rofiaceiis as distinct from L. analis. The larger 

 eye and redder coloration perhaps indicate a specimen from deeper 

 water than usual. 



Specimens of this species are in the nuiseum at Cambridge from 

 Nassau, Eio Janeiro, and Eio Grande do Norte. 



15. LUTJANUS COLORADO. (Pargo Colorado.) 



Luijanus Colorado Jordau & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 338, 351, 355 (Mazatlan) ; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Bull, U. S. N. M. 1882, 107, 110 (Mazatlan, Panama); 

 Jordan & Swain, 1. c. ; Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1891, 147 

 (Guaymas). 



Habitat: Guaymas to Panama. 



Etymology: Spanish, Colorado^ v^d (colored), in allusion to the com- 

 mon \i2kvaQ, pargo Colorado. 



16. LUTJANUS BRACHYPTERUS. 



Luijanus hrachijpterus Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1871, 470 (Now Providence); 

 Jordan and Swain, 1. c, 447 (description of type). 



Habitat: Bahama Islands. 



Etymology: i3pa-^b<;^ short; ttts/jov, fin. 



Of this species, a single specimen only is known. It is allied to L. 

 griseus, although apparently distinct from that species and from all 

 others known to us. In its technical characters it approaches most 

 closely to L. synagrin, near which species it is convenient to i^lace it 

 in our analytical key. If we suppose the type of L. ambiguus to be a 

 hybrid, synagris-chrysurus, we may susi^ectX. brachypteru.s to represent 

 a hybrid of griseus and synagris. The evidence in the latter case is less 

 striking than in the former. 



17. LUTJANUS GUTTATUS. (Flamenco.) 



Mesoprion guitatus Steindachner, Ichthyol. Notizen, ix, 18, 1869, taf. viii (Mazatlau). 



Lutjanua guttatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 354; Jordan & Gilbert, 

 op. cit., 1882, 625 (Panama) ; Jordan & Gilliert, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1882, 107, 

 110 (Mazatlan, Panama); Jordan & Swain. 1. c; Evermann & Jenkins, 

 Proc. U. S. N. M. 1891, 147 (Guaymas) ; Jordan, 1. c, 1889, 181 (Panama). 



Habitat: Guaymas to Panama. 

 Etymology: Guttatus, spotted. 



This species represents Lutjanus synagris on the Pacific coast. It is 

 a common food-fish at Guaymas, Mazatlan, and Panama, 



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