Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 283 
D:10=16. Pi 1S Le Seles a Cs 17, Length, 4 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Called, at Martinique, ‘‘ Demoiselle blanche.?? 
Le Plectropome demoiselle, Plectropoma puella, Cuv. et VaL., 11., p. 405, pl. 37. 
Us “JARDINE, Nat. Lib., Vol. 1., Ichthyology, p. 143, pl. 22. 
4. Plectropoma chlorurum, Cuy. 
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, (2). 
Caribbean Sea, Cuy. ; 
Called, at Martinique, ‘ Petit Négre.”’ 
Le Plectropome & caudale jaune, Plectropoma chlorurum, Cuv. et VAL., 1. 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. 
Di 10-125 P16; Val—5. AsS=6. 1c: 17 Length, 13 or 14 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuy. 
Called, at St. Domingo, ‘ Sarde Dorée.”’ 
Salpa purpurascens variegata, Lane Snapper, Caressy, 11. p. 17, pl. 17. 
Sparus Synagris, Lin., SHAw’s Gen. Zool., tv. p. 419. 
Le Mésoprion doré, Mesoprion uninotatus, Cuv. et Van., 11. p. 449, pl. 39. 
49 oY Witson’s Art. Ichth., p. 169, pl. 298, fig. 5. 
JarvInE, Nat. Lib., 1., Ichthyology, p. 148, pl. 24. 
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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. 
