32 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
One specimen (no. 139), 12 inches long, taken May 25, at 
Barbados. iM 
Head 2.5; depth 2.9; D. X, 12; A. III, 8; eye 4; snout 2.75; 
scales 50; gillrakers 8 below arch; a shallow but wide notch in 
preopercle, but no knob. Teeth on vomer in a diamond-shaped 
patch with an extension posteriorly. 
Color in alcohol dull yellowish brown, no distinct markings. 
24. Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch). Yellowtail; Rabirubia. 
Sparus chrysurus Bloch, Ichth., pl. 262, 1700, Brazil. 
Ocyurus chrysurus, Jordan & Evermann, op. cit. 1275, pl. 199, fig. 520; 
Evermann & Marsh, op. cit., 180, colored plate 23. 
One specimen (no. 152), 8.7 inches long, collected May 14, 
at Barbados. 
Head 2.9; depth 3; eye 5, slightly greater than interorbital; 
scales 63. Teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines, none on tongue. 
Caudal deeply forked. 
Color in alcohol dull yellowish brown; an indistinct dark 
stripe from snout through eye to caudal. 
25. Hemulon carbonarium Poey. Roneo Carbonero; Black Grunt. 
Haemulon carbonariwm Poey, Memorias, II, 176, 1860, Cuba; Jordan & 
Evermann, op. cit., 1300; Evermann & Marsh, op. cit., 188. 
One specimen (no. 141), 7.5 inches long, taken May 21, at 
Barbados. 
Head 2.9; depth 2.5; eye 3.5; D. XII, 14; A. III, 8; scales 
53. Bands of villiform teeth in jaws, none on vomer or pala- 
tines. 
Color in alcohol grayish. 
26. Hemulon flavolineatum (Desmarest). French Grunt. 
Diabasis flavolineatum, Desmeret, Prem. Decade Ichth., pl. 35, fig. 2, 1823, 
Cuba. 
Haemulon flavolineatum, Jordan & Evermann, op. cit., 1306, 1898; Ever- 
man & Marsh, op. cit., 191. 
One specimen (no. 153), 8 inches long, without locality or 
date, taken in fish pot. 
Head 3; depth 2.6; eye 3.7; interorbital 3; D. XII, 15; A. 
III, 9; scales 49. Teeth in irregular rows in jaws, vomer and 
palatines; scales enlarged above pectorals. 
Color in aleohol dull yellowish, with about 16 indistinct 
oblique stripes on body, following lines of scales above and be- 
low lateral line. 
