Jordan and Rvcrmann. Fishes of North America. 1549 



the interorbital space Haitian. Month small, oblique, the jaws equal, the 

 maxillary extending little past front of eye, 3 in head. Snout short, 4 

 in head ; eye very largo, 2 in head, much larger than in Chromis chromis 

 or Chromis punctipinnis. Preorbital entire ; preopercle with distinct obtuse 

 serraturesor crenations. Teeth slender, conical, in a moderate band, those 

 of the outer series considerably enlarged, broad and blunt. Gill rakers 

 long, not as long as pupil. Dorsal somewhat emarginate, the spines 

 unusually high, the longest spine 1 in head, the longest soft ray about the 

 same; caudal lunate, not deeply forked, the lobes short, the upper lobe 

 slightly longer, about as long as head; anal about as high as soft dorsal, 

 its second spine 1:| in head; soft dorsal and anal rather high, rounded 

 behind, reaching past base of caudal; ventrals filamentous at tip, longer 

 than head; pectorals about as long as head; vertical fins largely covered 

 with small scales. Color, when fresh, sooty-gray, rather dark, a narrow 

 blue stripe from tip of snout obliquely upward and backward across upper 

 part of eye to above front of lateral line, where it ends in blue dots; sides 

 paler posteriorly and below; fins dusky, the distal half of anal, most of 

 soft dorsal, and the whole of caudal and pectorals of a veVy intense light 

 yellow, deepest on the caudal; ventrals dusky-bluish, slightly tinged with 

 yellow; a small black spot in upper part of axil. Length 4 inches. 

 Snapper Banks off Pensacola and Tampa; known from numerous speci- 

 mens taken from stomachs of Snappers and Groupers. (sv^pv6o^ deep 

 golden; ovpd, tail.) 



Chromis rnclt r//nuriis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 286, Pensacola, 

 Florida. (Type, No. 30871. Coll. Jordan.) 



622. EUPOMACENTRUS,* Bleeker. 

 (PESCADOS AZULES.) 



? Parapomacentrus, BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Weten., n, 1877, 65 (polynema) ; 



lower jaw scaly ; snout scaly; spinous dorsal with membrane incised and lobed. 

 ? Amblypomacentrus, BLEEKER, I. c., 68 (brtviceps) ; snout and lower jaw naked. 

 Eupomacentrus, BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Weten., u, 1877, 73 (lividus); snout 



scaly; lower jaw naked; membranes of apinous dorsal not notched. 

 Brachypomacentrus, BLEEKER, I.e., 1877, 73 (albifasciatm) ; as above; membrane of spi- 



nous dorsal deeply notched. 



Body ovate, deep and compressed, the profile steep, usually rounded. 

 Head moderate, nearly as deep as long, the snout scaly, the lower jaw 

 naked. Mouth quite small, terminal, the jaws equal; each jaw armed 

 with a single close-set series of compressed, immovable teeth, which are 

 truncate at tip. Gill rakers long; preopercle more or less serrate; preor- 

 bital serrate. Scales large, strongly ctenoid, the lateral line running 

 parallel with the back to near the end of the dorsal fin, at which point it 

 ceasos. Dorsal tin continuous, with 12 or 13 low stout spines; membrane 



* The following is the .synonymy of the closely related Old World genus, Pomacentrus, 

 LACEPEDE, which has, as far as known, no American species : 1'omacentrus, LACEPEDE, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 508, 1802 (pavo) ; Pristotis, RUPPELL, Neue Wirbelthiere Fische 

 (cyano stigma) ; Pseudopomacentrus, BLEEKER, Naturh. Verb. Holl. Maatsch.weten. 1877, 

 39 (littoralis) ; teeth acutely angulated at tip. 



