Jordan and Evermann.-*- Fishes of North America. 1487 



liead. Scales cycloid 011 top and sides of head, elsewhere ctenoid; lateral 

 line more arched than the back, becoming straight slightly behind front 

 of anal fin ; soft parts of all the vertical fins scaled to their tips ; pectorals 

 ;ind ventrals with series of scales along the membranes. Color in life 

 plain silvery gray above, silvery below ; dorsals and upper portion of caudal 

 dusky translucent; pectorals light-straw color; ventrals mesially orange 

 yellow, the inner ray, the outer ray, and the tips of all the rays bright 

 white; anal deep yellow, the rays margined with black; lower caudal 

 rays yellow; gill cavity dusky, without yellow. Bay of Panama; 3 speci- 

 mens known, the largest 10 inches long. (Gilbert. ) ( Viola, the violet, 

 from the coloration, which has violet shades.) 



Eques viola, GILBERT MS., Fishes of Panama, 1898, Panama. (Coll. C. H. Gilbert. Type, 

 inL.S. Jr.Univ.Mus.) 



1873. EQUES ACUMINATUS (Blocli & Schneider). 



Head 3; depth 2? ; eye 4 in head; snout 3|. D. X-I, 38 to 40; A. II, 7; 

 scales 50. Body elongate, compressed ; profile rather steep, but not nearly 

 vertical. Distance from snout to first dorsal spine about equal to depth 

 of body. Dorsal spines little elevated, the longest about 5-J- in length of 

 body; first 5 or 6 interneurals wedged in between the neurals of the 

 second and third vertebra 1 , the rest between the third and fourth; inter- 

 orbital area not quite as broad as eye; second anal spine 2 in head; 

 longest dorsal If; pectorals If; mouth larger than in Eques punctatus, the 

 maxillary reaching past middle of orbit 3 in head; teeth of upper jaw 

 slightly enlarged; gill rakers short, rather slender, (i + 9; caudal peduncle 

 and fin less deep than in Eques punctatus ; second anal spine slightly shorter 

 than soft rays, 2 in head; soft dorsal scaly ; scales large, the series below 

 lateral line slightly oblique. Color of the typical West Indian form (var. 

 acnminatus) nearly black, with longitudinal whitish stripes on the body, 

 not on the fins; 1 stripe from upper edge of eye straight to upper edge of 

 caudal peduncle, 1 just above this to last rays of soft dorsal, 2 confluent 

 behind from nape to middle of soft dorsal, 2 below the first from pectoral 

 to base of caudal, the lowest to edge of caudal peduncle; fins dusky. 

 South Carolina to Brazil ; not uncommon in the West Indies, (acuminatus, 

 acuminate.) 



Grammistes acuminatus, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 184, 1801, no locality given; 



after Seba. 



Eques lineatug, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 169, 1830, Brazil. 

 Eques acuminatus, CASTELNAU, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares de 1'Amer. du Sud, 10, 1855; GiJN- 



THER, Cat., n, 280, I860; POEY, Memorias, H, 370, 1861; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I c., 440. 

 Pareques acuminatus, GOODE, Bull. IT. S. Nat. Mus., v, 50, 1876. 

 Represented on the South Atlantic coast of the United States by 



1873a. EQUES ACUMINATUS UMBROSUS, Jordan & Eigenmami. 



Essentially similar in form to the typical acuminatus, but the color marks 

 obscure. Head3; depth 2f. D. X-I, 40; A. II, 7; scales 6-51-10 ; second 

 anal spine 2 ; eye 4 ; snout 4 ; maxillary 2. Coloration dark smutty brown, 



