Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1297 



Hcemulon macrostoma, GUNTHER, Cat., I, 308, 1859, Jamaica (Coll. Dr. Parnell) ; JORDAN 



& SWAIN, 1. c., 289; JORDAN & FESLER, L c., 470. 

 Hcemulon fremebundum, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. ISTat. Mus. 1879, 340, Clearwater 



Harbor, Florida (Type, No. 23628, U.S.N.M. Coll. Dr. J. W. Velie) ; JORDAN & 



SWAIN, I. c., 297. 

 Diabasis fremebundus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 553. 



1665. ILEMULON BOXARIEXSE, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



(BLACK GRUNT; llONCO PRIETO.) 



Head 2* ; depth 2| ; scales 5-44-10. D. XII, 16 ; A. Ill, 8. Body oblong, 

 compressed, the back considerably elevated; head rather long; the snout 

 pointed, rather longer and sharper than in H.parra, the anterior profile 

 straight, or a very little concave before the eyes. Snout 2$- in head (in 

 young of 9 inches). Mouth rather small, smaller than in H.parra, the 

 maxillary barely reaching front of eye, its length 3 in head. Teeth of 

 moderate size, the outer and posterior somewhat enlarged. Eye moderate, 

 4 in head; interorbital space flattish, its width 4 in head; preorbital 

 moderate, its least width 4* in head ; preopercle moderately serrate. Gill 

 rakers few and small, about 12 on lower part of arch. Scales larger than 

 in H.parra or any other of the species; those above and below lateral 

 line about equal in size; those above arranged in series which are less 

 oblique and more undulating than in related species, the series from the 

 scapular scale following the direction of the lateral line for about 10 

 scales, then turning abruptly reaching the base of the last dorsal spine, 

 or sometimes the anterior part of soft dorsal; soft fins scaly, as usual. 

 Dorsal spines of moderate strength, the fourth 22 in head; longest ray 

 of soft dorsal 4 in head; caudal If in head; anal high, the second spine 

 and the longest rays extending, when depressed, well beyond tip of last 

 ray ; longest soft ray 2f in head ; second spine longer and stronger than 

 third, 2f in head ; pectorals long, 1 in head ; ventrals If. Color in spirits, 

 pearly gray ; center of each scale brownish-black, these coalescing and 

 forming very sharply defined continuous undulating stripes; about 16 of 

 these between front of dorsal and front of anal ; the sixth extending from 

 the scapular scale to last dorsal spine; base of caudal blackish; fins 

 dusky. West Indies, south to Buenos Ayres; not very common, (bona- 

 riense, from Buenos Ayres.) 



Hcemulon bonariense, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss.,v, 254, 1830, Buenos 



Ayres. 

 Hcemulon canna, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 233, 1830, Martinique ; 



GUNTHER, Cat., i, 311, 1859 ; POEY, Repertorio, I, 309, 1867 ; not of AGASSIZ, 1829. 

 Hcemulon notatum, POEY, Memorias, n, 179, 1868, Cuba; POEY, Synopsis, 317; POEY, Enu- 



meratio, 46. 



Hcemulon retrocurrens, POEY, Repertorio, II, 236, 461, 1868, Cuba. 

 Hcemulon continuum, POEY, Enumeratio, 46, 1875, Cuba. 

 Hcemulon parrce, JORDAN & SWAIN, I. c., 292, 1884. 



1666. ILEMULON PARBA (Desmarest). 



(SAILOR'S CHOICE; RONCO BLANCO; RONCO PRIETO; BASTARD MARGARET.) 



Head 3; depth 2f ; eye large, 4 in head. D. XII, 17; A. 111,7; scales 

 5-50-14. Body comparatively deep, the back compressed and arched ; ante- 



