Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1141 



a. Lower jaw strongly projecting; opercular flap pointed; body with 9 or 10 dark cross bands; 

 sides of head and jaws with many round bluish or yellowish spots; a large jet-black 

 spot behind eye; vertical fins edged with blue; preopercle very finely serrulate, its 

 angle not salient; scales rather large (about 80); second anal spine longest; caudal 

 much rounded; ventrals not reaching vent. PANAMENSIS, 1538. 



((. Lower j;i\v not strongly projecting; opercular flap very obtuse; body without cross bands; 

 body, head, and fins more or less covered with scarlet or orange spots; about 4 round, 

 inky spots along base of dorsal; lower jaw not strongly projecting; caudal fin much 

 rounded; scales rather large, ctenoid (about 80); ventrals not reaching vent. 



CRUENTATU8, 1539. 



1538. PETROMETOPON PANAXENSIS (Steindachner). 



Head 3 ; depth 3 ; eye 6 in head. D. IX, 14 ; A. Ill, 8 j scales 77, pores 53. 

 Body rather elongate, compressed. Head pointed, the lower jaw much 

 projecting ; maxillary scaleless ; eye broader than interorbital space ; 

 two small canines in each jaw ; angle of preopercle rounded, its edge 

 beset with very fine teeth; anterior profile of head steep and rather 

 straight ; dorsal spines moderate, subequal, the longest scarcely i head ; 

 second and third anal spines about equal; soft dorsal and anal high, 

 much rounded; caudal much rounded; pectoral rather long; scales 

 strongly ctenoid. Color, dark brownish violet; sides with 9 or 10 dark 

 cross bands ; sides of head and jaws with many round bluish-yellow 

 spots, those on lips smaller and clear blue ; a large jet-black spot behind 

 eye; vertical fins edged with blue; fins unspotted. Panama. (Stein- 

 dachner.)* On rocky coral reefs; rare; the characters of the skull not 

 described by Steindachner, the only naturalist who has seen the species. 

 Serranus panamensis, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, iv, 1, 1871, with plate, Panama. 

 Bodianus panamensis, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 378, 1890. 

 Enneacentrus panamensis, JORDAN & SWAIN, I. c., 398. 

 Epinephelus panamensis, BOULENGER, Cat., I, 177. 



1539. PETROMETOPON CRUENTATUS (Lacepede). 

 (ENJAMBRE ; CONEY ; KED HIND.) 



Head 2| ; depth 2 ; eye 5 in head. D. IX, 14 or 15 ; A. Ill, 8 ; scales 

 8-85 to 95-30, pores 50 to 55. Body oblong, rather deep and compressed, 

 its width 2J in. greatest depth. Head moderate, a little acute anteriorly, 

 the profile nearly straight from snout to nape, where it is rather convex. 

 Mouth rather large, the maxillary extending somewhat beyond eye, its 

 length 1J- in head. Lower jaw not strongly projecting. Teeth in narrow 

 bands, the depressible teeth of the inner series very long and slender, 

 longer than in any other of our species, those of the lower jaw and front 

 of upper especially enlarged, longer than the small, subequal canines ; 

 interorbital space narrow, with a median depression, its width 7 in head. 

 Preopercle convex, very weakly serrate, its posterior angle obliquely sub- 

 truncate, without salient angle or distinct emargination. Opercle with 3 

 distinct spines. Nostrils small, subequal. Gill rakers slender, x-(-9 to 11 

 besides rudiments, the longest as long as gill fringes. Scales rather large, 

 mostly strongly ctenoid. Dorsal spines rather slender and pungent, the 

 fourth and fifth spines highest, 33 in head, the outline of the fin gently 

 arched ; caudal very convex, its middle rays If in head, their length If 



