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opercle; scales on body much crowded anteriorly; all the fins, with the 

 exception of spinous dorsal, entirely scaled. Tip of pectoral sharply 

 rounded ; front of anal not greatly elevated, its longest ray 3 in base of 

 fin, which is about equal to head ; spinous dorsal higher than soft dorsal ; 

 upper lobe of caudal the longer. Color in life, steel blue, brighter than 

 in elegans ; with bronze streaks along the edges or rows of scales, much 

 brighter than in elegans; a broader gray streak bordered with bronze at 

 base of soft dorsal; a large brassy spot in the axil, extending along 

 shoulder girdle, a deep bronze stripe through eye, another back from 

 angle of mouth, the two separated by steel blue; fins all blue black, with 

 some bronze, especially on pectoral. Body more elongate than in eleyans; 

 the form more elliptical; the mouth less blunt, with fewer teeth; the 

 scales smaller and more crowded anteriorly; the fins lower, especially the 

 anal. Largest specimen 18 inches long. Pacific coast of tropical America, 

 Gulf of California to Panama. Here described from Mazatlan specimens. 

 A beautiful species rather common about Mazatlan, both in the estuary 

 and in deep water in the neighborhood of the islands. Its range along 

 the coast is not definitely distinguished from that of K. eleyans, the two 

 having been recorded as identical by authors who had seen but one. 

 They were first properly distinguished by Evermann & Jenkins, who ob- 

 tained both at Guaymas. The marked difference in color, however, does 

 not appear in the descriptions of Evermann & Jenkins, which were drawn 

 from specimens preserved in alcohol. Specimens examined by us from 

 Guaymas, Cape San Lucas, Porto Escondido, and Mazatlan. (analogus, 

 analogous, to Kyphosus sectatrix, but its relations are rather with 

 Kyphosus incisor.) 



Pimelepterus analogus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 245, Cape San Lucas. (Coll. 



Xantus.) 

 Kyphosus analogus, EVERMANN & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 154; JORDAN & FES- 



LER, I. c., 534, 1893; JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 465. 



1764. KYPHOSUS INCISOR (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(CHOP A AMARILLA.) 



Head 5 in total with caudal; depth 3. D. XI, 14; A. Ill, 13; scales 

 10-65: pores 20; anal a third higher than soft dorsal; caudal lunate; 

 teeth as in K. sectatrix; preopercle scarcely serrate; scales of back much 

 smaller than those of sides, as are also those of head, throat, and belly. 

 Plumbeous, with yellow lines marking edges of the scales; besides the 

 yellow streak across cheek to axil, another below eye ending on opercle ; 

 yellow streak before nostrils emphasized by black edgings; fins blue, 

 deeper on the soft part ; base of pectoral with yellow scales. Cuba (Poey) 

 to Brazil and the Canary Islands; not seen by us; a large species reach- 

 ing 2| to 3 feet in length, a larger size than is attained by K. sectatrix. 

 Evidently distinct from Kyphosus sectatrix, with which it is confounded 

 by Jordan & Fesler, its relations being with K. analogus. (incisor, one 

 that cuts; from the teeth.) 



?Saleima aurata, BOWDICH, Excursion Madeira, 238, 1825, Bona Vista Island; description 

 and figure very bad. D. X, 17 ; A. Ill, 14 ; body with light orange stripes. 



Pimelepterus incisor, CUVIER &, VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 266, 1831, Brazil. 

 (Coll. Delalande.) (Chcetodon incisor, PARKINSON MS., about 1765.) 



Pimelepterus flavolineatus, POEY, Repertorio, 319, 1866, Havana. (Coll. Poey.) 



