76 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of JYorth America. 



D. 12-17. P. (?). V. (?). A. 3-7. C. (.'). Length, 6 inches. 

 Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



La Gorette de Broussonnel, Hffimulon chromis, Cuv. et Val., v. p. 242. 



11. Hfemulon fulvo-maculatum, Mitchill. 



Rows of yellow-sprinkled oblique stripes above the lateral line, and horizontal stripes of 

 a similar color beneath it. 



D. 12-15. P. 18. V. 1-5. A. 3-12. C. 17. Length, 6 inches. 

 New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Labrus fulvomaculatus, Speckled Grunts, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 406. 

 Hasmulon fulvo-maculatum, Speckled Red-mouth, Dekay's Report, p. 84, pi. 7, fig. 21. 



12. Heemulon arcuatum, Cuv. 



Body elevated. Of a dark blackish green color, with a brilliant gilded crescent on each 



scale. Fins blackish. The teeth, particularly of the lower jaw, very laige. 



D. 11-17. P. (?). V. (?)■ A. 3-9. C. (?)■ Length, 11 inches. 



South Carolina, Cuv. 



La Gorette a croissant, Kaemulon arcuatum, Cuv. et Val., ix. p. 481. 

 " " Dekay's Report, p. 87. 



GENUS XI. PRISTIPOMA, Cuv. 



Have the same preoperculum, the same pores under the symphysis, as the 

 Hasmulons ; but their snout is thicker, their mouth smaller, their dorsal and 

 anal fins have no scales ; their operculum terminates in a blunt angle, hidden 

 in its membranous edge. 



1. Pristipoma rodo, Cuv. 



The head and breast of this species are silvery, shaded with gray. A broad black band 

 descends from the nape of the neck across the eye to the angle of the jaws ; a second 

 band, situated before the dorsal, descends to and terminates at the pectorals. Behind this, 

 upon each side, the body is divided into fifteen longitudinal lines, alternately golden and 

 steel-colored. The edges of the scales are silvery, and the fins are yellow. 



D. 12-17. P. 16. V. 1-5. A. 3-10. C. 17. Length, 8 to 11 inches. 



Virginia, Carolina, Lin- Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called "Rodo," at Martinique; "Fin," at St. Domingo ; " Parapel," at Guadaloupe ; 

 " Catalineta," at Havana ; " Juannita," " Mariquita," at Porto Rico. 



Sparus Yirginicus, Virginian Sparus, L., Shaw's Gen. Zob'l., iv. p. 436. 

 Le Prislipomerodo (Pristipoma rodo, Cuv.), Cuv. et Val., v. p. 274. 



