Jordan and Rvcrmann. Fishes of North America. 1595 



Castries, St. Lucia. Closely allied to Iridio lirittatus, but readily distin- 

 guished by the black dorsal spot and stouter form. West Indies, north 

 to Beaufort, N. C. (macula, spot; pinna, fin.) 



J-ulifi maculipinna, MULLER & TROSCHEL, in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 674, 1848, 



Barbados. 

 riatyglossus maculipinna, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 105,1862; JORDAN, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 99, 



1885 ; JORDAN & HUGHES, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 62. 

 Clin'rojnlis iiHtcnlipi ana, POEY, Synopsis, 336, 1868. 

 Halichccrea maculipinna, JORDAN, Keview Labroid Fishes, 644, 1890. 



2002. I Kill 10 BIVITTATUS (Bloch). 



( SLIPPERY IJICK; DOKCELLA.) 



Head 3.V; depth 4. 1). IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; eye 6 in head; snout nearly 3; 

 scales 2-27-8. Body very slender, compressed; head small and pointed. 

 Caudal fin rounded or subtruncate, the outer rays not produced, shorter 

 than the middle rays; scales before dorsal in 4 to 6 rows, not crossing the 

 median line. Snout moderately pointed. Ventral fins with the outer ray 

 not produced, its length not more than - that of inner rays. Lower 

 pharyngeals T-shaped, the anterior liinb very short. General color brown- 

 ish; opercle with a conspicuous black spot; a blue-black band from 

 snout through eye and across opercles to base of caudal, not extending on 

 the fin ; a narrower and fainter band from lower base of pectoral to above 

 anal, these bands growing fainter with age and sometimes disappearing, 

 the lower always wanting in the adult; no axillary spot; no distinct 

 bands across cheek; fins mostly pale, with bright red and blue colors 

 in life, the young and those from deep-water often showing a black 

 spot at base of caudal, and sometimes a dark spot near middle of dorsal, 

 with sometimes ti larger one at the base of its last ray; angles of caudal 

 black in adult. In life, greenish above, sides shaded with purple, the 

 purplish color extending on the back, where it forms about 10 dark 

 bars. Young with a brownish lateral baud and a reddish stripe above 

 it and below it. Many scales of posterior part of body each with a ver- 

 tical spot of deep greenish blue, these smallest and bluest on caudal pe- 

 duncle ; blue, red, and greenish shades extending downward and backward 

 from pectoral ; a red baud from each eye, these meeting on the nape ; each 

 bordering before with blue, behind confluent with a median reddish ver- 

 tebral stripe which extends to front of dorsal; snout largely red; frontal 

 region green; a red baud through snout to edge of opercle edged by blue 

 below, then yellowish and again red; lower jaw with 2 orange-red bands, 

 its middle red in front, blue behind; throat reddish; opercle with a violet 

 spot edged by green and orange; beyond this a <-shaped violet mark 

 edged behind with yellow; dorsal bluish at base, then red, yellowish, red, 

 and pale; sometimes, but not always, a violet spot at base of its last ray; 

 caudal largely red, with oblique bluish and yellowish stripes, the corners 

 more or less bluish, darkest in the adult; anal like dorsal; ventrals red- 

 dish ; pectorals plain. 



The young, types of Plati/glossus jiorealls, are described as follows : 

 Head 3*; depth 4. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 12; scales lf-26-8. Body rather 



