Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of JSTorth America. 847 



opercle striated, the strife ending in line points at posterior edge of oper- 

 cle, above a very feeble spine. Pectorals shorter than veutrals ; third 

 and fourth anal spines nearly equal in length, the former broader. 

 Deep crimson, paler below; a blood-red bar across opercle and base of 

 pectoral, becoming black in spirits ; fins red, the vertical fins edged with 

 whitish. Length 1 foot. West Indies to Brazil; common; a brilliantly 

 colored fish. (Jacobus, James; the species is called Frere-Jacques, 

 " brother Jim." in Martinique.) 



ti* jc<ilmx, CuviEE & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., HI, 162, 1829, Martinique; 

 GI-NTIIER, Cat., i, 19, 1859. 



i* ///./<,/,*, 1'nEv, Memoriae, u, 159, 1860; Havana. 

 Rhinoleryx chrysetis, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 464, 1870, St. Croix Island. 



1231. MYRIPRISTIS OCCIDENTALS, Gill. 



Head 3 in extreme length ; depth nearly 4 ; eye 2 ; snout 5. D. X-I, 

 13; A. IV, 11; scales 3-35 or 36-7; pectoral fin contained 6 tintes in the 

 total length, the ventrals 7|, and the caudal 5 times. Color on the upper 

 half reddish purple, silvery below, with many dark points, especially 

 along edges of scales ; fins pale, except a darker border along spinous 

 dorsal. Length 6 inches. (Gill.) Pacific Coast of Mexico; common in 

 rock pools about C 4 ape San Lucas, (octidentalis, western.) 



Mitrl<>],risiis occidentalis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 87; Cape San Lucas. (Coll. 



Xantus.) 

 lilianiphoberyx leucopus, GILL, 1. c., 88, Cape San Lucas. (Coll. Xantus.) 



1232. MYRIPRISTIS PffiCILOPUS (Gill). 



Head 4 in extreme length ; depth 3; eye 2; snout 5, blunt. D. X-I, 

 14; scales 3-35 or 36-7. Olive green, golden green below, and cupreous 

 on the opercle ; spinous dorsal dark green in front of each spine, but 

 light behind as well as above and below; black in spirits; spinous dor- 

 sal margined with dark; ventrals with a broad blackish terminal band; 

 base of caudal punctulate with dark spots. (Gill.) Cape San Lucas. 

 Known from the types, which are very young; probably the young of 

 Holocentrus suborbitalis. (Trot/c/Aof, variegated; Trovg, foot.) 



Rhamphobenjx poccilopus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 87, Cape San Lucas. (Coll. 

 Xantus.) 



382. HOLOCENTRUS (Gronow) Scopoli. 



(SQUIRKEL-FISHES.) 



Holocentrwm, ARTEDI, Seba, in, about 1T40, nonbinomial, (rubrum). 



Holocentrus, GRONOW, Zoophyl., 65, 1763, (rostratus, nonbinomial). 



//. ..'. . . ntlH-H.x (GRONOW), SCOPOLI, Int. Hist. Nat., p. 449, 1777. 



Holocentrus, BLOCH, Ichthyol.. iv, til, 1790, (*<>go). 



Rhynchichthys, CLVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 503, 1831, (pelamulis) (young). 



Holocentnmt, of authors generally. 



