268 Storefs Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



The seven following species are added from Sovverby's "Zo- 

 ological Journal." 



GENUS H^EMULON, Cuv. 



13. Hremulon obliquatuni, Bennett. 



Yellowish, with twelve bluish bands upon the head, and numerous oblique bluish lines 

 upon the body. 



D. 12-16. P. 15. V. 1-6. A. 3-12. C. 16. Length, (>). 

 Caribbean Sea, Bancroft. 



Diabasia obliquatus, Bennett, Sowerby's Zoological Journal, v. p. 00. 



GENUS CHROMIS, Cuv. 



The lips, protractile intermaxillaries, pharyngeals, dorsal filaments, and 

 general appearance of a Labrus ; but the teeth of the pharynx and jaws re- 

 semble those of a card, and there is a range of conical ones in front. The 

 vertical fins are filamentous, those of the belly being even frequently extended 

 into long threads. The lateral line is interrupted ; the stomach forms a cul- 

 de-sac, but has no cceca. 



1. Chromis tenia, Bennett. 



Blackish brown ; fins blackish ; tail rounded, banded with black dots ; a round black spot 

 beneath the eye, another at the base of the caudal beneath, and a band continued from the 

 eye along the middle of the side to the tail. 



D. 15-11. P. 13. V. (?). A. 4-9. C. 16. Length, (?)• 



Caribbean Sea, Bennett. 



Chromis trenia, Bennett, Proceedings of Zoological Society of London, I. 1S30, p. 112. 



GENUS HEMIRAMPHUS, Cuv. 



3. Hemiramphus apicalis, Bennett. 



Body four times the length of the lower mandible. Dorsal and anal fins of equal length. 

 A silver stripe extends horizontally along the middle of the body, from the operculum to 

 the tail. Apex-of the lower jaw of a bright flame color. Pectoral fins equal in length to 



