330 Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
6. Pristipoma serrula, Cuy. 
More elongated than the bilineatum; eyes larger. Violet-colored above, with four or five 
longitudinal yellow lines; beneath silvery. The second and third anal rays of equal length. 
D. 12-13. P.15. V.1-5. A.3-9. C.17. Length, 7 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Le Pristipome petite-scie, Pristipoma serrula, Cuv. et VaL., v. p. 272. 
7. Pristipoma auratum, Cuv. 
Of an uniform golden color, throughout. The number of the fin rays the same as in the 
P. serrula. 
D. 12-13. P.15. V.1-5. A.3-9. C.17. Length, 6 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Le Pristipome doré, Pristipoma auratum, Cov. et VAL-, v. p, 272. 
Nore. Dekay has admitted into his extra-limital species the Pristipoma rubrum, although 
he does not mention its habitat ; and Cuvier, in his ‘‘ Histoire Naturelle des Poissons,’ 
speaks of it as being found only in Brazil. 
GENUS XII. LOBOTES, Cvv. 
The snout is short, the lower jaw turned up in front, the body elevated ; 
the dorsal and anal lengthen their posterior angle, so that, with their rounded 
caudal, their body seems to terminate in three lobes. Preoperculum with 
strong dentations. They have four clusters of very small spots towards the 
end of their jaw. 
1. Lobotes Surinamensis, Cuy. 
Elliptical, deepest opposite the first dorsal ray. The color of the back and sides is a rusty 
black ; of the belly, a dirty clay, variegated with blackish and yellowish specks. Dorsal, 
anal, and ventral fins yellowish. 
D, 12-15. P.17. V.1-5. A.3-11. C.17. Length, 13 inches or more. 
New York, Mrrcnruu. This species is also found in Brazil, and of course along the 
whole coast. 
Le Lobotes de Surinam (Lobotes Surinamensis, Cuv., Holocentrus Surinamensis, Bu., p. 243, Bodianus triu- 
rus, Mircum1?), Cuv. et Vat., v. p. 319. 
Bodianus triurus, Triple-tailed Perch, Mrrcurct, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. p. 418, pl. 3, fig. 10. 
Lobotes Surinamensis, Black Triple-tail, DExay’s Report, p. 88, pl. 18, fig. 49. 
2. Lobotes somnolentus, Cuv. 
Silvery brown. The soft portions of the dorsal and anal fins, and the extremity of the 
