Slorer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 31 



D. 10-16. P. 13. V. 1-5. A. 3-7. C. 17. Length, 4 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called, at Martinique, " Demoiselle blanche." 



Le Plectropome demoiselle, Plectropoma puella, Cuv. eL Val., ii., p. 405, pi. 37. 



Jabdi.ne, Nat. Lib., Vol i., Ichthyology, p. 143, pi. 22. 



4. Plectropoma chlorurum, Cuv. 



Of a beautiful brown. Caudal and pectorals yellow. The other fins black. Three 

 points to the operculum. Six teeth at the lower edge of the preoperculum ; its edge is very 

 finely denticulated ; three stouter teeth towards the angle. 



D. 10-15. P. 12. V. 1-5. A. 3-7. C. 15. Length, (?). 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called, at Martinique, " Petit Negre." 



Le Plectropome a caudale jaune, Plectropoma chlorurum, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 406. 



GENUS IX. MESOPRION. 



Agrees with Serranus in its teeth, fins, and dentated preoperculum, but 

 differs in its opercle being terminated by an obtuse angle, not spinous. 



1. Mesoprion uninotatus, Cuv. 



The back, upper part of the head, and cheeks are of a brownish steel-blue ; the lower part 

 of the cheeks and sides of a rich rose-color, and the belly silvery. The entire body striped 

 with seven or eight longitudinal golden bands, irregular and disconnected towards the dor- 

 sum. Dorsal fin rose-colored, with three yellow bands; the other fins a jonquil yellow. 

 A dark-colored spot beneath the posterior portion of dorsal fin. 



D. 10-12. P. 16. V. 1-5. A. 3-8. C. 17. Length, 13 or 14 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called, at St. Domingo, " Sarde Doree." 



Salpa purpurascena varlegata, Lane Snapper, Catesby, n. p. 17, pi. 17. 



Spams Synagris, Lin., Shaw's Gen. Zoo]., iv. p. 410. 



Le M' oprion (lore, Mesoprion uninotatus, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 449, pi. 39. 



" Wilson's Art. Iclith., p. 1G9, pi. 298, fig 5 



" Jardine, Nat. Lib., I., Ichthyology, p. 148, pi 24. 



2. Mesoprion chrysurus, Cuv. 



Above the lateral line, grayish, obliquely rayed with golden yellow ; beneath it, of a 

 bright purple, with three longitudinal golden stripes. The upper, which is broadest, passes 

 along the middle of the body. Dorsal and anal, olive-yellow ; caudal, a bright yellow, 

 margined with two rose-colored lines; pectorals, rose-colored ; ventrals, orange. Tail very 

 much forked. 



