1310 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



1676. BATHYSTOMA AUROLDfEATUM * (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(JENIGUANO.) 



Head 3; depth 3y; eye large, 3f in head; interorbital space convex, its 

 width 4 in head; preorbital very low, its least breadth about 7 in head. 

 Gill rakers small, about 12 on lower part of arch. D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 8; 

 scales 8-51-13. Body compressed, fusiform, the back not elevated; the 

 profile forming a weak but nearly regular curve from the tip of the snout 

 to the front of the dorsal ; snout short, moderately pointed, 3 in head ; 

 mouth large, curved, the maxillary reaching to slightly beyond middle of 

 pupil, its length \\ in head. Teeth not very strong, about as in B. rimator. 

 Scales rather small, arranged about as in B. rimator. Dorsal spines 

 slender, rather high, the fourth 2-J- in head; upper caudal lobe 1| in 

 head; longest anal rays 2 in head, their tips not reaching nearly to tips 

 of last rays; second anal spine not very much longer than third, about 3 

 in head, reaching, when depressed, little past the base of the last ray; 

 ventrals If in head; pectorals 1-J, their tips reaching slightly beyond 

 tips of ventrals. Color in life, dusky gray, with 7 or 8 yellow lon- 

 gitudinal streaks, the one through eye widest; mouth very red; no 

 dusky spot under the angle of preopercle ; fins gray ; dorsal scarcely yel- 

 lowish. Inspirits the vertical fins and snout are somewhat dusky; the 

 paired fins are grayish, the golden stripes faint. Length 6 to 8 inches. 

 Here described from Havana specimens. West Indies ; Florida Keys to 

 Brazil; very abundant at Havana, where it is often brought into the 

 market. It is smaller in size than any other of this or related genera 

 except Brachygenys ckrysargyreum. It has been taken at Garden Key, Fla., 

 but was not observed at Key West, (atm/w, gold; lineatus, striped.) 



Hcemulon aurolineatum, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. K"at. Poiss., v, 237, 1830, Brazil; 



San Domingo; JORDAN & FESLER, I. e., 478. 

 Hcemulon jeniguano, POEY, Memorias.ii , 183, 1860, Cuba; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



925. 

 Hcemulon aurolineatum, GUNTHER, Cat., i, 318, 1859. 



1677. BATHYSTOMA STRIATUM (Linnams). 

 (WHITE GRUNT.) 



Head 3i; depth 3|; eye large, 3f in head. D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 7; scales 

 7-70-18. Body elongate, fusiform, more slender than in any other of the 

 species, the back little elevated, not much compressed, the anterior pro- 

 file gently convex, not steep. Head small, the snout short and not very 

 acute, its length 3^ in head ; mouth comparatively small, smaller than in 

 B. aurolineatum, the maxillary extending to beyond front of pupil, its 



* We have adopted the name aurolineatum for this species, and not for B. rimator, on 

 the strength of the following account of the typical specimen of Bathystoma aurolinea- 

 tum received from Dr. H. E. Sauvage, of the museum at Paris. 



Hcemulon aurolineatum, Brazil, Delalande, type. Length of the body, 0.220 in. ; height 

 of body, 0.055 in.; length of the head, 0.60 m. Height of the body contained nearly 4 

 times in the total length, and 3^ without the caudal. 



As the description of Cuvier & \ 7 "alencienues agrees in other respects equally well with 

 either species, the above measurements leave no doubt of the identity of their type with 

 B. jeniguano. Bathystoma rimator, young or old, is never so slender as the aboVe meas- 

 urements would indicate. 



