2278 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



2613. (JAULOLATILUS CYAXOPS,* Poey. 



(BLANQL'ILLO.) 



Head 4 in total length. D. VII, 24; A. I, 22 (scales 10-108-25. Bean). 

 Profile convex before the eye, not ascending to the nape ; no scales on the 

 fins ; soft rays little divided ; caudal slightly lunate ; first caudal vertebra 

 spoon-like, its cavity receiving the air bladder ; vertebras 12 -f- 15 ; no 

 pyloric caeca, stomach short, air "bladder large. Color greenish above, a 

 faint, broad, interrupted brown band above the lateral line ; some small 

 brown spots above and below it ; region below the eye clear blue, not very 

 different from the color of the belly; soft dorsal brown, paler at its base, 

 edged with orange ; spinous dorsal orange. (Poey.) Coast of Cuba ; not 

 seen by us. Both this and the preceding species may be identical with 

 Caulolatilus chrysops, a species described from the coast of Brazil. 

 (nvdrsog, blue; GJ^, eye.) 



? Latilus chrysops, CUVIEE & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix,496, 1833, Brazil (Coll. 



M. Gay) ; GUNTHER, Cat., II, 253, 1860. 

 Caulolatilus cyanops, POEY, Kepertorio, i, 312, 1867, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



840. LOPHOLATILUS, Goode & Bean. 



(TlLE-FlSHES.) 

 Lopholatilus, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 205 (chamceleonticeps). 



Body stout, somewhat compressed; mouth moderate, maxillary reaching 

 anterior margin of the orbit ; opercle and preopercle scaly, the latter finely 

 denticulate; upper jaw with outer series of stronger teeth, behind which 

 is a band of villiform teeth; lower jaw with a few large canines, and an 

 inner series of small conical teeth; voiner and palatines toothless; nape 

 with a large adipose appendage ; a fleshy prolongation upon each side of 

 the labial fold, extending backward beyond the angle of the mouth; 

 stomach small, siphonal, barely more than a loop in the very large intes- 

 tine; alimentary canal short, less than total length of the body; air 

 bladder simple, with thick muscular walls, strongly attached to the roof 

 of the abdominal cavity by numerous root-like appendages, resembling 

 somewhat that of Pogonias. Deep-sea fishes. (Ad0o?, crest; Latilus.) 



2614. LOPHOLATILUS CHAMJELEONTICEPS, Goode <fc Bean. 



(TlLE-FlSH.) 



Head 3; depth 3|. D. VII, 15; A. II, 13; scales 8-93-30. Body stout, 

 somewhat compressed, its greatest width equaling length of caudal pedun- 

 cle ; intermaxillaries supplied with a series of from 19 to 23 canine teeth, 

 behind which is a band of villiform teeth, widest at the symphysis; man- 

 dible with about 12 large canines; eye rather small, its diameter 6 in 



* The characters distinguishing Caulolatilus chrysops are thus given hy Poey: Head 

 4 in total length. D. VIII, 24; A. II, 22. Profile most gibhous behind the eye; a very 

 bright gilded band below the eye, broader anteriorly ; dorsal fin brown with irregular blue 

 spots ; axillary spot green. Coast of Brazil. 



