Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1319 



others and is subject to considerable variation in form.* (surinamensis, 

 from Surinam.) 



Lutjanus surinamensis, BLOCH, Ichthyol., pi. 253, 1791, Surinam. 



Holocentrus gibbosus, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 344, 1803, Surinam; after BLOCH. 



Pristipoma bilineatum, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Eat. Poiss., v, 271, 1830, Mar- 

 tinique. 



Pristipoma melanopterum, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 273, 1830, Brazil. 



Hcemulon obtusum, POEY, Memorias, n, 182, 1860, Havana. 



Hcemulon labridum, POEY, Meraorias, n, 419, 1861, Cuba. 



Pristipoma surinamense, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 273, 1830. 



Anisotremus bilineatus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 319. 



Anisotremus surinamensis, JORDAN & FESLER, I.e., 484, 1893; EVERMANN & BEAN, Report 

 on the Fisheries of Indian River, Florida, Senate Doc. 46, 54th Cong., 2d ses., 22, 1897. 



1685. AXISOTRKMl S INTKRRUPTUS (Gill). 



(MOJARRON.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2. D. XII, 16 ; A. Ill, 8 or 9 ; scales 5- (7 or 8 in oblique 

 series) -52-12; pores 48. Form of Anisotremus surinamensis, the profile 

 rather steeper and less curved ; scales above lateral line considerably more 

 enlarged ; in other characters entirely similar to A. surinamensis. Adult in 

 life, grayish anteriorly, yellow on posterior half; the back tinged with 

 brassy olive, which grows darker behind, the posterior parts pretty dis- 

 tinctly yellow ; fin spines gray, the soft fins olive, the fins growing dusky 

 at tip; scales on back and sides each with a distinct black spot; iris 

 yellow. Young specimens with 2 black horizontal stripes, one of these 

 from the eye to a point just before base of caudal, where it is interrupted, 

 a round black spot following at base of caudal; another stripe above this 

 and parallel with it ; scales of anterior parts with round brown spots, not 

 confluent. Length 2 to 3 feet. Pacific coast about rocky islands from 

 Magdalena Bay to Panama and the Galapagos; probably varying into the 

 preceding, from which the Galapagos specimens are hardly separable. A 

 common food fish, (interrupt**, broken, from the lateral stripe in the 

 young.) 



Genytremus interruptus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 256, young, Cape San 



Lucas (Coll. J. Xantus). 

 Pristipoma furthi, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., v, 4, 1876, Panama (Coll. Ignatius Fiirth) ; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 385. 

 Anisotremus surinamensis interruptus, JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 484, 1893. 



1686. ANISOTREMUS BICOLOR (Castelnau). 



(MARIA-PRIETA.) 



Head 3 ; depth 21 . D. XII, 16 ; A . Ill, 8 ; scales 7 or 8-46-15 ; lateral line 

 with 54 pores; eye 2f; snout 4|; preorbital 4; pectoral 1. Scales above 



* Anixotremus interruptus, GILL. Pacific coast examples usually have the scales abo\e 

 the lateral line a little larger than usual in Atlantic specimens, but this difference seems 

 to be variable. We have compared specimens from Havana, Bahia, and Rio Janeiro 

 with interruptus from Mazatlan, Magdalena Bay, Panama, and the Galapagos. Specimens 

 from the Galapagos are darker in color and with the snout rather sharper than others seen. 

 Those from Galapagos and from Rio Janeiro have the scales above the lateral line a little 

 less enlarged, 9 in an oblique series, downward and backward from first dorsal spine (7 

 in Panama specimen, 8 in specimen from Magdalena Bay). 



