1308 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



Havana. None of the specimens seen exceeds 6 inches in length. It 

 differs from the others in the less development of the cavernous structure 

 of the skull, the foramina on the frontal region being inconspicuous. 

 oS, gold; apyvpzoS, silver.) 



Hcemulon chrysargyreum, GUNTHER, Cat., i, 314, 1859, Trinidad. 

 Hcemulon tceniatum, POEY, Memoriae, u, 182, 1860, Cuba; young. 

 Brachygenys tceniata, POEY, Enumeratio, 47, 1875. 

 Hcemulon chrysargyreum, JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 476. 



539. BATHYSTOMA, Scudder. 



(TOM TAXES.) 



Bathystoma (SCUDDER MS.) PUTNAM, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., I, 12, 1863 (jeniguano, etc.) ; 

 no definition. 



This genus differs from Hcemulon in the presence of 13 dorsal spines; 

 body rather elongate; gill rakers rather numerous, 12 to 18 011 lower part 

 of anterior arch; mouth moderate; scales small; frontal foramina long, 

 divided slits in front of the supraoccipital crest. Jaws red within. 

 (fiaQvS, low; drojua, mouth.) 



a. Mouth large, the maxillary reaching middle of eye, its length about head; gill 

 rakers rather short and few ; scales moderate, 50 to 55 in the lateral line ; second 

 anal spine scarcely larger or longer than third, 2| or more in head. 

 &. Body oblong, the back moderately elevated, the depth 2| to 3 in length. 



RIMATOR, 1675. 

 bb. Body subfusifonn, the back little elevated, the depth 3 to 3 in length. 



AUROLINEATUM, 1676. 



aa. Mouth rather small, the maxillary not reaching to opposite middle of eye, its 

 length not quite J head; gill rakers numerous, rather long; scales small, 

 about 70 in lateral line; second anal spine notably longer and larger than third; 

 body more elongate than in other species, depth about 3 in length. 



STRIATUM, 1677. 



1675. BATHYSTOMA RIMATOR (Jordan & Swain). 



(TOM TATE; RED-MOUTH GRUNT; CJESAR.) 



Head 2f ; depth 2f ; eye rather large, 4 in head; interorbital space con- 

 vex, 3f in head; preorbital low, its least breadth 8 in head. Gill rakers 

 small, about 11+16. D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 8; scales 8-51-13. Body rather 

 elongate but not fusiform, the back somewhat elevated, the profile straight 

 or slightly convex from tip of snout to behind eye, where it becomes grad- 

 ually more convex; snout short, rather pointed, about 3 in head. Mouth 

 large, the maxillary reaching middle of pupil, its length 2 in bead. Teeth 

 not very strong, those of the outer series a little enlarged, the antrores 

 posterior teeth rather large. Scales rather small, those above lateral line 

 regularly arranged in oblique series, the series below nearly horizontal. 

 Dorsal spines slender and high, the fourth 2 to 2 in head; upper caudal 

 lobe 1| in head; longest anal rays 3 in head, their tips not reaching tips of 



