Jordan and Evermann . Fishes of North A merica . 1 303 



at Havana and southward. It reaches a length of about a foot. Here 

 described from Havana specimens. Others examined from St. Thomas, 

 Nassau, and Sombrero Key. (nehaS, black; ovpd, tail.) 



Perca marina cauda nigra (Black tail), CATESBY, Hist. Car., pi. 7, fig. 2, 3743, Bahamas. 

 Perca melanura, LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1758; xn, 486, 1766, Bahamas; ba&ed on 



CATESBY. 



Hcemulon schranki, AGASSIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 121, pi. 69, 1829, Brazil. 

 Hasmulon dorsale, POEY, Memorias, n, 179, 1860, Cuba. 

 Hcemulon mdanurum, COPE, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1871, 471; JORDAN & SWAIN, . c., 300, 



1884 ; JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 473. 



1671. H;EMULON SCIURUS (Shaw). 

 (YELLOW GRUNT; KONGO AMARILLO; BOAR GRUNT.) 



Head2f; depth 2j. I). XII, 16; A. Ill, 8; scales 7-53-14. Eye moderate, 

 4 in head ; interorbital space convex, 3| in head ; preorbital moderate, its 

 least breadth 6f in head ; preopercle finely serrate ; gill rakers small, about 

 13+17. Body oblong: the back not specially elevated; the profile nearly 

 straight or slightly concave from tip of snout to before eye, thence a little 

 gibbous to base of dorsal; snout moderately acute, 2 in head. Mouth 

 large, the gape curved, the maxillary reaching a little past front of pupil, 

 its length 2 in head; lower jaw slightly included; teeth strong; upper 

 jaw in front with about 3 strong canines on each side, these stronger 

 than any of the other teeth; front teeth of lower jaw rather strong, as 

 also the antrorse teeth of the back part of both jaws. Scales moderate, 

 those above lateral line not at all enlarged, arranged in oblique series, 

 those below in nearly horizontal ones. Dorsal spines rather slender, the 

 fourth longest, 2-?- in head ; longest soft rays 4 ; upper caudal lobe longer 

 than lower, 1 in head; longest anal rays 2 in head, their tips, when 

 depressed, extending beyond the tips of the last rays; second anal spine 

 stronger and longer than third, 2 in head, its tip, when depressed, reach- 

 ing past the middle of the last ray; ventrals If in head; pectorals 1. 

 Color in life, deep brassy yellow, scarcely paler below or darker above; 

 head and body with about 12 conspicuous slightly wavy, longitudinal 

 stripes of sky-blue, deepest on the snout, each with a very narrow edge 

 of dusky olive; these stripes on the head curving upward below eye, the 

 first stripe below eye forking near the posterior margin of preopercle and 

 inclosing an oblong area of the ground color; iris gilt, a dark spot under 

 the angle of preopercle; spinous dorsal edged and shaded with yellowish, 

 its membrane mostly bluish; soft dorsal yellowish; caudal yellowish, 

 broadly dusky at base, the degree of this duskiness being variable ; mouth 

 deep orange within ; pectorals pale yellowish ; anal and ventrals deeper 

 yellowish; the young have more yellow on fins and less on body, with 

 traces of a dark caudal spot. The coloration becomes fainter in spirits, 

 the blue lines becoming gray. Here described from examples from Key 

 West, 10 inches in length. Specimens from Cuba are slightly darker, 

 but not otherwise different. Among them are 2 which evidently corre- 

 spond to H. multilineatum of Poey. These, in life, showed the following 

 coloration: Clear bright yellow, with brassy tinge, the stripes clear 

 sky-blue, without darker edge; iris yellow, no black at base of caudal; 



