1246 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



is confluent anteriorly with the supraoccipital crest, a character not seen 

 in any species of Neomcenis. Lutianus and Genyorogeh&ve not been exam- 

 ined in this respect. Species brightly colored, chiefly of the western 

 Pacific; one within our limits, (ev, well; ortMriyS, armed.) 



1629. EVOPLITES VIRIDIS (Valenciennes). 



Head 2f ; depth 3; eye large, 4 in head. D. X, 14; A. Ill, 8. Scales 

 9-54-17. Body rather elongate, profile to nape nearly straight; snout 

 pointed, 3J in head; supraoccipital crest low; preorbital moderate. 6| in 

 head; mouth moderate, the jaws subequal, the maxillary reaching front of 

 pupil, 2f in head ; each jaw with a narrow band of villiform teeth, outside 

 of which are moderate canines; tongue toothless; vomer with a A-shaped 

 band of teeth and with no backward j>rolongation on median line. Gill- 

 rakers short and slender, 10 developed ; nostrils small, well separated, the 

 posterior oblong. Preopercle with a sharp, deep notch, into which fits a 

 knob from the interopercle ; temporal crest not confluent with orbital rim, 

 but nearly or quite confluent with supraoccipital crest in front ; lower limb 

 of preopercle coarsely serrate ; preopercle strongly serrate above the notch. 

 Scales rather small, the rows above lateral line very oblique, nowhere 

 parallel with the lateral line, 7 or 8 rows on cheeks, anterior largest, one 

 row on interopercle ; top of head scaled as far forward as front of pupil ; 

 10 rows of scales between eye and suprascapula ; soft dorsal and anal scaly. 

 Dorsal spines low and strong, the fourth spine longest, 3 in head ; soft 

 dorsal rounded, the longest ray 4 in head ; anal moderate, its free edge 

 straight, the second spine longest, 2f in head; pectorals long, 1^ in head. 

 Color golden-brown with 5 sky-blue longitudinal stripes, each broadly and 

 sharply margined with dark blue ; the whote band as broad anteriorly as 

 the interspaces, growing narrower behind the dark-blue border, nearly as 

 wide on each side as the median pale-blue band; a faint median blue 

 streak from occiput to front of dorsal, then a band of 3 blue streaks, 

 as above stated, from occiput above eye to ninth dorsal spine; second from 

 upper edge of eye to middle of soft dorsal ; third from middle of eye to last 

 ray of dorsal; fourth from upper jaw along lower edge of eye to middle of 

 base of caudal peduncle, where it ends abruptly; fifth from end of maxil- 

 lary to above last ray of anal ; fins all pale, the dorsal partly edged with 

 black ; no black lateral spot. Rocky islands of the eastern Pacific ; known 

 from the Galapagos (Valenciennes), Tres Marias (Forrer), and the Revillu- 

 gigedos Islands (Gilbert); here described from a specimen* taken by 

 Alfonse Forrer at the Tres Marias, (viridis, green, a very inappropriate 

 name, as the species is olive with blue stripes.) 



Diacope viridis, VALENCIENNES, Voyage de la Venus, 303, pi. 1, fig. 2 (very bad), 1845, 



Galapagos Islands. 



Genyoroge viridis, GUNTHER, Cat., i, 180, 1859. 

 Lutjanus viridis, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.1888, 330; JORDAN & FESLER, Z. c., 439. 



* Evoplites kasmira (from Swatow, China) differs from EvopUtes viridis in the following 

 respects: Bod y deeper (depth 2f) ; scales smaller (8) 12-62-21}; the back more elevated and 

 the profile steeper; snout 3 in head; preorbital 6; maxillary 2f; second anal spine 3'; 

 lower lateral band wanting; a vague dark lateral blotch present, larger than eye; hands 

 less sharply defined than in E. viridis, the pale-blue median streak in each band twice as 

 wide as the dark border, the whole band narrower, its width one-third to one-fourth that 

 of the golden-brown interspaces ; no median dorsal streak. 



