SPAROID FISHEfi OP AMERICA AND EUROPE. 473 



specimens from St. Croix and Bermuda in the British Museum, where 

 they are labeled Hccmulon macrostoma. In the museums at Washington, 

 Cambridge, and Bloomington are specimens from Havana and Bahia. 



40. HiEMULON SCHRANKI. 



Hcvmitlon schranki Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 1829, 121, pi. 69 (Brazil); Evermaim 

 &. Jenkius, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1891, 153 (Guaymas); Jordan, 1. c, 1889, 648 

 (St. Lucia); Jordan, 1. c, 1890, 319 (Bahia). 



? HwmuloH similis Castelnaii, Auim. Noiiv. ou Rares, 1855, 11? (Bahia). 



Hcemulon catidimacida Steiud., Ichth. Beitrage, iii, 15, 1875 (Acapulco, Rio Janeiro, 

 Rio Grande do Sui, Maranhao; not of Cuv. & Yal.). 



Diabasis steindachneri Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1881, 322 (Mazatlan, Pan- 

 ama); Jordan &, Gilbert, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1882, 107, 110 (Panama, Mazat- 

 lan) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 361, 372 (Cape San Lucas, 

 Colima). 



Hmmulon steindachneri, Jordan & Swain, 1. c, 299. 



Hcemylon flaviguttatiim Bean, Proc. IT. S. N. M. 1880, 96 (Colima; no description; 

 not of Gill). 



Habitat: Pacific coast of tropical America; coast of Brazil, north to 

 St. Lucia. 



Etymology : Xamed for Schrank, an early naturalist. 



A species of small size, generally common on the Pacific coast of 

 tropical America. It also occurs in abundance qn the southeast coast 

 of Brazil, and a specimen before us was taken by the Albatross at St. 

 Lucia. We have examined numerous specimens from Brazil in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology (from Eio Janeiro, Eio Grand do Sul, 

 Para, Maranhao, and Acapulco); on comparing these with Pacific coast 

 examples we can find no difterence ; the Brazilian fish seems to be the 

 original of the poorly figured Hcemulon schranhi of Agassiz ; the Pacific 

 coast form is H. steindachneri. 



41. HiEMULON MELANURUM. (Jeniguana.) 



Perca marina cuuda nigra (Black-tail), Catesby, Hist. Car., tab. 7, f. 2, 1743 (Bahamas). 

 Perca melanura Linmeusi, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1758; xii, 486, 1766 (based ou Catesby's 



figure); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, 1319. 

 Bathji stoma melanurum, Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 1863, 12 (name only). 

 Haiviulon melannrmn, Cope, Trans. Aui. Phil. Soc. 1871, 471 (New Providence, St. 



Martins, St. Croix); Jordan & Swain, 1. c, 300. 

 Uwmulon dorsale Poey, Memorias, ii, 179, 1860 (Cuba); Synopsis, 1868, 308; Enumer- 



atio, 1875, 44). 



Habitat : West Indies. 



Etymology: /^^Aa^, black; oupd, tail. 



This si)ecies is rather common at Havana, where it is known as 

 Jeniguana. It reaches a length of about a foot. There seems to be no 

 doubt of its identity with the " black- tail" of Catesby, on which is based 

 the Perca melanura of Liniiieus, Specimens are in the museum at Cam- 

 bridge from Havana, St. Thomas, Sombrero, and Nassau. 



