1586 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



1993. PIMELOMETOPOtf DARWINII (Jenyns). 



Head 3; depth 3. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 12; scales 62. Snout pointed; 

 outer lobes of caudal noticeably produced, as are also the soft dorsal and 

 anal; preopercle entire. Color red; a large yellow blotch above the pec- 

 toral, and a black one anteriorly on the spinous dorsal. (Valenciennes.) 

 Galapagos Islands; not seen by us. Evidently very closely related to P. 

 pulcher, differing from the latter chiefly in color. (Named for its discoverer, 

 Charles Darwin.) 



Cossyphus darwinii, JENYNS, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 100, pi. 20, 1842, Chatham Island, 



Galapagos. (Coll. Darwin.) 

 Labrus aper, VALENCIENNES, Yoy. de la Venus, Zool., Poiss., 3158, pi. 8, f. 1, text, 1855 ; plates, 



1846, Galapagos Island. 



Trochocopus darwinii, GUNTHER, Cat.,iv, 100, 1862; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 633. 

 Pimelometopon darwinii, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 59. 



634. CLEPTICUS, Cuvier. 

 Clepticus, CUVIER, Kegne Animal, Ed. n, Vol.2, 261, 1829 (genizaraparrce). 



Anterior teeth small, bluntish, not canine-like; no posterior canine; 

 mouth very small, terminal; snout short and blunt; dorsal and anal 

 enveloped in scales, except produced tips of both fins; caudal deeply 

 forked; dorsal spines 12, almost hidden by series of scales; head every- 

 where closely scaled, except on lips and snout; scales of body large; pre- 

 opercle serrulate ; gill rakers slender, short ; pectoral falcate ; lower 

 pharyngeals very small, Y-shaped, their teeth small, very blunt, and 

 coalescent; vertebrae 10 4- 17 = 27. This genus contains a single species, 

 a singular looking little fish, inhabiting the West Indian waters. It is 

 remarkable for the close squamation of its head and fins, as well as for 

 the feebleness of its dentition. (HXertTinos, one inclined to steal; a name 

 given to recall the affinity of the genus to fipibulus, from 7tifiovA.o$, 

 insidious ; its Dutch name in Mollucca being de Bedriyer. ) 



1994. CLEPTICUS PARILE (Block & Schneider). 

 (GENIZARA; JANISSARY; CREOLE.) 



Head 3f; depth 2|. D. XII, 10; A. Ill, 12; scales 5-35-12 ; vertebra 

 10 + 17 = 27. Body robust, considerably compressed; 4 rows of scales on 

 cheek ; pectorals falcate, slightly longer than head ; dorsal and anal com- 

 pletely enveloped in a scaly sheath, produced soft rays of both fins naked 

 except at base ; produced dorsal ray nearly as long as head. Color in spirits, 

 reddish brown anteriorly as far back as an irregular line connecting ventrals 

 and last ray of dorsal fin, becoming coppery below ; posteriorly insensibly 

 shading into greenish marbled with verdigris green. This species seems 

 to be rather rare in the West Indies. Here described from a single speci- 

 men nearly a foot long from Havana. West Indies, recorded from Cuba 

 and Jamaica. (Named for Don Antonio Parra.) 



if.PiezasdeHist. Nat. Cuba, 44, pi. 21, fig. 1, 1787, Havana. 

 Brama parrce, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 100, 1801, Havana ; after RabiruUa 

 genizara,of PARRA. 



