Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1323 



and over eye, very much arched at nape; mouth small, the maxillary 

 extending to anterior nostril; jaws subequal ; outer row of teeth enlarged; 

 about 6 gill rakers, besides rudiments, below angle; dorsal fin low, 

 emarginate, spines slender, the highest about equal in length to second 

 anal spine, which is less than head; caudal forked. Oblique bar 

 from nape through eye, and vertical bar downward from dorsal, jet-black; 

 space before anterior bar deep yellow ; interspace between bars pearly 

 gray, with yellow spots, the spots confluent above into a yellow area; 

 ground color of body plain pearly gray, with about 7 deep-yellow lon- 

 gitudinal stripes; the pearly interspace not edged with darker and not 

 distinctly blue; all the fins deep yellow; iris gilt gray. A very young 

 specimen showed the following coloration in life; pule anterior region, 

 from lower jaw and temporal region to spinous dorsal bright yellow; 

 spinous dorsal, ventrals, and front of anal deep golden; other fins pale; a 

 large round jet-black spot at base of caudal; a dark band from front of 

 spinous dorsal downward, and 2 black stripes along sides, one from nape 

 to last ray of dorsal and one from the eye nearly to the caudal spot. Flor- 

 ida to Brazil ; the commonest of the genus in the West Indies, and the 

 only one except A. mriuaincnxlx which extends its range to the coast of 

 Florida. (Name from Virginia, but the species does not reach thus far to 

 the northward.) 



Guatucupajuba, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Brasil., 148*1648, Brazil. 



Acarapinima, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Brasil., 152, 1648, Brazil. 



Si>arusvirginici(8, LiNNJEUS, Syst. Nat., X, 281, 1758, South America. 



Xjifimsvittatus, BLOCK, Ichthyol., taf. 263, fig. 2, 1791, Brazil; after MARCGRAVE'S Acara 

 pinima. 



rercajuba, BLOCII, I.e., taf. 308, fig. 2, 1791, Brazil; after MARCGRAVE'S Guatucupa juba. 



a r<i in mistes mauritii, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichthyol., 185, 1801 ; after Kparus vittatus 

 of BLOCH. 



? Pristipoma catharince, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 269, 1830, St. Cath- 

 arine Island, Brazil. 



Pristipoma rodo, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 274, 1830, Martinique, 

 Brazil, Puerto Rico, and San Domingo. 



Pristipoma acara pinima, CASTELNAU, Anim. Nouv.ou Rares, 8, 1856, Brazil. 



Pristipoma virginicum, GUNTHER, Cat., I, 288. 



Anisotremus virginicus, GILL, Proc., Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 107; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1890, 319; JORDAN & FESLER, I c., 486. 



Pomadasys virginicus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 385. 



1692. AXISOTREMUS SE BBUL A (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(TETE-DE-ROCHE; PETITE-SCIE.) 



Dorsal XII, 13; A. Ill, 9. Body a little more oblong than in Anisotre- 

 mus surinamensis. Snout short, not longer than width of eye; dorsal fin 

 very deeply notched, with feeble spines; second and third anal spines 

 equal in length. Anterior part of body without dark crossbars, the body 

 sometimes plain yellowish, the back usually violet, with 4 or 5 yellowish 

 lines; silvery below.* Martinique (Cuvier & Valenciennes); not seen by 



* Except for the presence of the groove at the chin, as implied in the description of 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes, we might suppose Anisotremus serrula to be identical with 

 Genyatremus luteus. 



