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above the lateral line a little larger than usual iii Atlantic specimens, 

 but this difference can not be depended on and is variable. Should a 

 tangible variety ever prove appreciable, the name interruiHus should 

 be retained for the West Coast form. Specimens are in the Museum of 

 Comj)arative Zoology, from Havana (type of Anisotremus ohtusus Poey), 

 from Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Galapagos Islands, Panama, and Magdalena 

 Bay. The largest of these is about 2 feet in lengtli. The Galapagos 

 specimens are darkest in color and with the snout rather sharper. 

 Those from the Galapagos and from Eio Janeiro have the scales above 

 the lateral line a little less eidarged, 9 in an oblique series, downward 

 and backward from first dorsal spine (7 in Panama specimen, 8 in 

 specimen from Magdalena Bay). 



Lutjanus surinamensis Bloch is a dried and discolored specimen, 

 which could have belonged to no other known species. Although 14 

 dorsal spines are figured and the body represented as marked with dark 

 crossbands, we have no doubt of its identity, and therefore substitute 

 the name surinamensis for hiJineatns. 



55. ANISOTREMUS BICOLOR. (Maria-Prieta.) 



Pristipoma bicolor Casteln.iu, Anini. Noiiv. on Rares Aiudr. dii Sad, 1850, 8, \)\. 2, f. 2 



(Bahia). 

 Anisotremus hicolor, Joi-daii. Proc. U. S. N. M. 1800, 319 (Baliia). 

 f I'ristlpoma irHhicatiini Pooy, Mumorias, ii, 313, 1860 (Havana). 

 Prlstq)oma hrasiliense Steindaclmer, Sitzungsl). k. Akad. Wis.s. Wieii, 1863, ]i. 1013 



(Rabia). 



Habitat: Coast of Brazil. 



Etymology: Bicolor, two-colored. 



This si^ecies is known to us from several specimens from the coast 

 of Brazil (Bahia, Rio Grande do iSTorte, and Ceara), preserved in the 

 museum at Cambridge, and from one taken by the Albatross at Bahia. 

 It is very close to A. surinamensis, but has sliglitly larger scales and a 

 somewhat different coloration, as well as a steeper and more gibbous 

 front. Anisotremus trilincatus Poey may bcithe young of this species, 

 but of this we are not sure. 



56. ANISOTREMUS SCAPULARIS. 



Pristipoma scapularc Tfic\\\u\i, Fanna, Pern.ana, 1841, 12 (Huacho). 



Dinijramma mclanospilum Kner, Sitzuugsh. k. Akad. Wi.ssBusfhart, 1867, \ (wost coast 



of South America). 

 Pristipoma iiotatii m Peters, Rorl. Monatsb., 1869, 706 ("angoblicb ans Mazatlan"). 

 Pomadasi/s modestuH, Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbihi. 1883, 286 (probably not of 



Tscbndi). " « 



Habitat: Coast of Peru. 



Etymology: Scapula, shoulder, from the shoulder spot. 



Of this species, one specimen, J:S(»."), from Callao, is in the museum at 

 Cambridge. Others examined by us are in the museum ;it Berlin. It 

 has the central pore at the chin, the failure to find which led Kner to 

 phxce the species in Diagramma. It seems to l)e identical witli Peters's 

 type of P. notatum, preserved in the museum at Berlin, though it dis- 



