Jordan and Ever mann. Fishes of North America, 2277 



teeth rather strong ; preopercle finely, evenly, and acutely serrate behind, 

 nearly entire below; preopercle, interopercle, and preorbital naked; 

 cheeks and opercles scaly ; top of head scaled on the median line to be- 

 tween the eyes; dorsal spines flexible; ventrals slightly behind the pec- 

 torals, the outer rays longest; caudal moderately forked, the upper lobe 

 the longer; caudal peduncle short and slender, abruptly contracted; pec- 

 torals falcate, longer than caudal, length of the head. Olivaceous, with 

 bluish reflections ; brownish above, greenish below; fins light greenish 

 olive, tinged with bluish and orange, the colors always pale ; dorsal and 

 anal greenish, with a bluish band near the tip ; axil dusky. Rocky islands 

 of the Pacific coast from Monterey southward to the Galapagos ; abun- 

 dant about the Santa Barbara Islands ; a food fish of considerable impor- 

 tance. Length 40 inches. We are unable to detect any differences by 

 which the Californian form, Caulolatilus anomalus, can be separated from 

 Caulolatilus princeps. (princeps, a leader.) 

 Latilus princeps, JENYNS, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 52, pi. 11, 1840, Chatham Island, Galapagos 



Archipelago (Coll. Charles Darwin) ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 253, 1860. 

 Dekaya anomala, COOPER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1864, 70, coast of Southern California. 

 Caulolatilus affinis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 68, Cape St. Lucas. (Coll. John 



Xantus.) 



Caulolatilus princeps, GILL, I. c. 68. 

 Caulolatilus anomalus, GILL, I. c. 68 ; STREETS, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 48, 1877 ; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 625, 1883. 



2612. CAULOLATILUS MICROPS, Goode&Bean. 



Head 3| ; depth 3. D. VII, 25 ; A. 1, 23 ; scales 105 counting the oblique 

 series, 120 counting the row above lateral line ; transverse rows 12 -{- 30 ; 

 eye 5f in head ; snout 2 ; maxillary 2| ; pectoral 1 ; ventral 2^- ; highest 

 dorsal spine 3 ; highest anal rays 3^ ; upper caudal lobe 1. Body rather 

 robust ; upper profile of head rather steep, evenly rounded from tip of 

 snout to dorsal; nostrils small, midway between eye and tip of snout, 

 separated by a distance equal to diameter of pupil ; mouth large, maxil- 

 lary scarcely reaching to anterior margin of eye; lips thick; lower jaw 

 included; jaws with small conical teeth, the outer row enlarged, canine- 

 like, a large tooth on posterior end of maxillary at angle of mouth ; pre- 

 opercle finely and evenly serrate on its vertical limb ; a broad flat spine on 

 opercle; snout, preorbital and lower jaw naked; fins scaleless ; dorsal and 

 anal similar, long and low ; pectorals reaching far past tips of ventrals to 

 vent; origin of ventral spine about the length of 2 scales behind the ver- 

 tical from pectoral base; caudal fin lunate when spread, its upper lobe 

 slightly the longer. Color reddish, marked with yellow ; a yellow band 

 below the eye; a dark blotch in and above axil of pectoral; dorsal light 

 at base, darker above, with many indistinct brownish spots. Gulf of 

 Mexico, in rather deep water; not rare. Here described from a specimen 

 from the Pensacola Snapper Banks, 26 inches in length. A rather doubt- 

 ful species, perhaps not distinct from C. cyanops or C. chrysops. (juixpos, 

 small; c^, eye.) 



Caulolatilus microps, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 43, off Pensacola, 



Florida. (Coll. Silas Stearns.) 

 Caulolatilus ehrysops, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 626, 1883; not Latilus chrysops, 



CUVIEE & VALENCIENNES. 



