Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1547 



1955. CWROMIS CYAXEUS (Poey). 



Depth 34 in total length with caudal; eye 3 in head. D. XII, 12; A. II, 

 12. Profile of snout formed by 2 equal curves; upper lobe of the caudal 

 longer than the lower; soft dorsal and anal higher than in multilineatus ; 

 color bright Prussian blue with a darker violet spot on each scale ; back 

 and vertical fins darker, ventral paler ; posterior part of the caudal trans- 

 lucent. Length 120 mm. Cuba. (Poey.) (cyaneus, nvaveo^ blue.) 



Furcaria cyanea, POEY, Memorias, II, 196, pi. 14, figs. 5-8, 1860, Havana. 

 Ilcliastes cyaneus, GUNTHER, Cat., IV, 64, 1862. 



IDoti. CHKOMIS MIJLTILINEATTS (Guichenot). 



I lead :;'; ; depth 2 ; eye 3 in head. D. XII, 11 ; A. II, 12; scales 4-28-9. 

 Body elongate, both curvatures about equal, head slightly concave in 

 front of eye; eye low, a line from tip of snout to tip of opercle passing 

 through lower edge of pupil; maxillary slipping under preorbital, its til) 

 below anterior margin of orbit; a band of villiform teeth in each jaw, in 

 front of which is a single row of conical-pointed teeth, the most anterior 

 larger, especially in lower jaw; no regular seme on any of the opercuFar 

 bones, but the preopercle slightly rough at angle, opercle with a single 

 obtuse point; snout equal to eye; lateral line ceasing 011 front of end of 

 dorsal, with 19 scales; a series of disconnected pores along side of tail; 

 fourth dorsal spine highest, 2-}- in head ; soft dorsal pointed, the tips reach- 

 ing base of caudal, longest ray If in head ; second anal spine 2 in head, 

 equal to soft rays ; pectoral equal to head; ventral slightly filamentous., 

 reaching past vent, 1 in head; axillary scale and scale between the fins 

 long, attenuate; caudal deeply forked, the lobes pointed (the upper lobe 

 is broken off, so that we cannot tell whether the lobes are equal). Color 

 in alcohol, back dusky, becoming paler with bluish on the sides, with 

 faint lines along side of belly, with white below; dorsal black, the last 

 4 or 5 rays white ; middle rays of caudal white, outer rays dusky ; anal 

 slightly dusky; pectoral colorless, the axil black, the black showing as 

 a small blotch at upper base; ventrals white; a sulphur-yellow blotch 

 across tail behind dorsal. West Indies. Here described from a single 

 specimen 4-J inches long (No. 4963 L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.) from Jamaica. 

 (mult um, many; lineatm, lined.) 



Heliases multilineatus, GUICHENOT, Ramon de la Sagra, Poiss., Cuba, 76, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1855, 



Havana; in part; confused with Kyphosus incisor ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 64,1862. 

 Furcaria puncta,* POEY, Memorias, n, 195, 1860, Havana. 

 Ghromix multilineatus, JORDAN &, BUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 117. 



