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1533. LIOPROPOMA ABERRANS (Poey). 



Head 2*; depth 3*; D. IX, 12; A. 111,8; scales 45; vertebras 10 + 14. 

 Body rather elongate, the back little elevated; the caudal peduncle very 

 thick. Head large, form as in Epinephelus. Maxillary extending to 

 below posterior part of eye. Lower jaw longest; teeth small, uniform 

 on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Preopercle entire; opercle with a spine. 

 Eye moderate, li in snout, 4| in head. Head with numerous conspicu- 

 ous pores, especially above eye, on preorbital, suborbital,and lower jaw. 

 Lateral line with a strong upward curve running close to spinous dorsal. 

 Dorsal spines moderate, the third longest, 3 in head ; the sixth shortest, 

 seventh, eighth, and ninth progressively longer, so that the spinous 

 dorsal is deeply notched ; anal spines slender, graduated ; caudal short, 

 lunate ; pectorals long, falcate, If in head ; ventrals shorter, 2| in head, 

 inserted farther forward. Head scaly, including the maxillaries; soft 

 parts of vertical fins with scales. Head rose-color, rest of body orange; 

 the rose-color extending on back and throat, the orange forming a broad 

 band to end of muzzle; cheeks with orange spots; an orange border on 

 the maxillary; vertical fins orange, paired fins rose-color; a yellow post- 

 ocular band. Pyloric coeca 4. Coast of Cuba : known from one specimen, 

 5 inches long. (Poey.) (aberrans, wandering away, from the type of 

 Perca.) 



Perca aberrans, POEY, Memoriae, n, 125, 1860, Cuba. 



Liopropoma aberrans, POEY, Synopsis, 291, 1868; BOULENGEE, Cat., i, 155. 



494. CHORISTISTIUM, Gill. 



Chorististium, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 236, (rubrum). 



Body rather short and deep, covered with ctenoid scales. Lateral line 

 running high, close to dorsal anteriorly. Mouth large, the lower jaw 

 projecting, the teeth all villiform; maxillary scaly ; preopercle entire; 

 gill rakers moderate, slender. Dorsal spines 6, the two fins well separated, 

 the second spine longest ; soft dorsal and anal produced backward to a 

 point. Caudal truncate. One species known, from deep water, (xupiaroc, 

 divided; lariov, sail, for dorsal fin.) 



1534. CHORISTISTIUM RUBRUM (Poey). 



Head 3 in total length ; depth 4; eye 4 = snout. D. V-I, 12; A. Ill, 

 8. Body rather stout, with deep caudal peduncle. Head long, narrow, 

 resembling that of Sphyrcena. Lower jaw much longer than upper ; chin 

 projecting; teeth very small; maxillary reaching posterior border of 

 orbit ; jaws with pores ; preorbital very narrow, not sheathing the max- 

 illary. Both jaws, vomer, and palatines with villiform teeth ; preopercle 

 rounded, with two borders, both entire ; opercle with two spines ; gill 

 rakers moderate, slender. Scales covering the body, except the extreme 

 end of muzzle, ctenoid ; small scales on second dorsal and anal ; lateral 

 line running very high anteriorly, forming a high arch, as in Antlrias. 

 Dorsal fin very short, notched to the base ; first dorsal spine nearly as 



