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villiform bands. Fourth dorsal spine 3 in depth of body ; soft dorsal 

 low; caudal forked. Co3ca4. Snout rose-colored; rest of head, nape, and 

 back golden-yellow, as are the belly and base of anal; rest of body lead- 

 color, with 2 brown bands, first midway between lateral line and back, 

 the other from eye to tail, ending in a black spot as large as eye at base 

 of caudal; a gilt streak along lateral line, another along belly, the two 

 marking edge of caudal peduncle; a broad blackish vertical band from 

 first ray of dorsal to base of pectoral ; fins bright orange, especially cau- 

 dal and anal ; spinous dorsal and ventral with membranes blackish ; a 

 dark spot on median line of tail behind dorsal. Iris brown. Length 4 

 inches. Havana (Poey) ; not seen by us. A species of uncertain relation- 

 ship, (spleniatus, bearing patches.) 



Pristipoma spleniatutn, POEY, Memorias, n, 187, 1860, Havana. 

 1690. ANISOTREMUS TJENIATUS, Gill. 



(CATALINA.) 



Head 3; depth 2^. D. XII, 16; A. Ill, 10; scales 10-56-17 ; eye 3 in 

 head; snout 2J; preorbital 4; maxillary 3; second anal spine If ; fourth 

 dorsal spine 1| ; pectoral | ; gill rakers 8 -J- 16. Body ovate, the back 

 much elevated, the anterior profile steep, convex on snout, straightish 

 over eye, nape very convex to base of third dorsal spine ; mouth moder- 

 ate, the maxillary extending to anterior edge of eye; jawssubequal; teeth 

 arranged in bands, the outer much enlarged; about 10 gill rakers, besides 

 rudiments, below angle; dorsal fin high, slightly emarginate; spines slen- 

 der, the highest slightly shorter and weaker than the second anal spine, 

 which is more than - head; caudal emarginate, the upper lobe the 

 longer. Body with about 6 longi tudiual stripes of brilliant blue on a bright 

 golden ground, those on side very distinct, not nearly as wide as a scale, 

 sharply edged with darker blue, their width about -J- that of the olive 

 interspaces; additional blue stripes in the interspaces faint and few; 

 and oblique brown band from nape through eye, broad vertical bands at 

 shoulder, these much less distinct than in A. virginicus; fins golden yel- 

 low. Young with a black blotch at base of caudal. Pacific coast of trop- 

 ical America, Magdalena Bay to Panama. The most brilliantly colored of 

 the genus, common on the Pacific coast of Mexico and Panama, where it 

 replaces the closely allied Auisotremus virginicus. The differences between 

 the two species, though slight, seem to be constant, (raivia, a ribbon; 

 tceniatus, striped.) 

 Anisotremus tceniatus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 107, Panama (Coll. Captain 



DOW) ; JORDAN & FESLER, I. C., 486. 



1691. ANISOTREMUS VIRGINICUS (Linnseus). 



(PORKFISH ; C ATALINET A . ) 



Head 3; depth 2^ T . D. XII, 17; A. Ill, 10 or 11-; scales 11-56-17; eye 

 4; snout 2^ to 3; preorbital 4 ; maxillary 3^ ; second anal spine 2-nj ; third 

 dorsal spine 2-^, ; pectoral | ; gill rakers 7 -f 16. Body ovate, the back 

 very much elevated, the anterior profile steep, slightly convex along snout 



