SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 633 



Subfamily XI.— KYPHOSIN/E. 

 XLII. HERMOSILLA. 



Hermosilla Jenkins Sl Evermaun, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1888, 144 (azurea). 



Type: IlermosiUa azurea Jenkins & Evermaun. 



Ebyuiolog^'^ : Hermosilla^ name of tlie capital city of Sonora, along the 

 coasts of whicli state the typical siiecies was taken, derived from 

 Spanish hcrmosa, beautiful {Jjntin, formo.sa). 



This genus contains a single sx^^cies, an ally of Kyphosus, found in 

 the Gulf of California. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF HERMOSILLA. 



a. Top of head from posterior margin of e3'es, snont, preorbitala, cliin, and preopor- 

 cles naked, liody ovate, compressed; head short; snout blnut, 3 in head; max- 

 ilhiry about equal to eye, which is 3'^ in head, and reaching front of eye; both 

 jaws with one series of close-set, equal, narrow, rounded incisors ; no teeth on 

 vomer; gill-rakers slender. 3-}-12, about equal to eye; preorbital 1^ in eye; 

 preopercle entire ; fins except spinous dorsal finely scaled ; seventh dorsal spine 

 longest; second anal spine longest, 1^ diameter of eye; pectorals shorter than 

 ventrals, 1^ in head; spinous dorsal about half longer than soft. Head, 3|; 

 depth, 2; D. XI, 11; A. la, 10. Scales, 11-55-17. Color, dark steel-blue, paler 

 below; body with about 12 nearly vertical blackish crossbauds about as wide 

 as the eye; helow eye silvery, with a dark streak from maxillary to angle of 

 opercle; opercular blotch black; a black blotch in the axil; tins mostly dark. 



Azurea, 148. 



148. HERMOSILLA AZUREA. 



Hermosilla azurea Jenkins & Evermaun, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1888, 144 (Guaymas). 



Habitat : Gulf of California. 



Etymology: Azureus, sky-blue. 



This beautiful species is known from two examples, taken by Jenkins 

 & Evermann at Guaymas, in Souora. 



XLIII. KYPHOSUS. 



Kyphcsus Lac€pMe, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 114, 1802 (higihhus =/uscua). 

 Pimelepterus Lac6pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 429, 1803 (bosqui = sectatrix). 

 Dorsuarius LacfSp^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 482, 1803 (nif/renoens = fuscus). 

 Xyster Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 484, 1803 (fiiscus). 

 ? Opisthistius Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G2. 245, (lahmel). 

 Sectator Jordau & Fesler, snbgen. nov. (ocyurus). 



Tyjie: Kyphosus bigibbufi Lacepede. 



Etymology: xuf<k, a hump, the word more correctly written cyphus, 

 and referring to a deformed specimen with humi) back. 



This genus contains some ten S])ecies, all but one confined to the 

 Pacific Ocean, and most of them found in the East Indies. One of the 

 species, Ojnsthistiiis tahmel, usually referred to this group, is probably 

 the type of a distinct genus, distinguished by its elevated soft dorsal 

 and aual. 



