Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1675 



in series running upward and backward, the series not marked by contin- 

 uous black streaks, either plain or with dusky spots; lateral line extend- 

 ing to beloAV posterior end of soft dorsal. Color golden gray; the black 

 ocular baud narrower than eye, edged with pale, extending from nape 

 across eye and over cheek and iuteropercle; humeral band present, broader 

 than eye, extending from front of spinous dorsal through base of pectoral 

 to ventral; a broad band from last dorsal spines to base of anal; soft dor- 

 sal and anal with a dark baud parallel with the margin; 3 dark bands 

 across caudal peduncle at base of iiu; caudal fin with a faint band; ven- 

 trals dark ; pectoral and edges of vertical fins pale. Pacific coast of tropical 

 America from (iuaymas to Panama ;* very common, especially about rocks. 

 Length 8 inches. A handsome little fish, (humeralis, pertaining to the 

 shoulder from the broad humeral band.) 



Chcetodon humeralis, GI'NTHER, Cat., n, 19, 1860, Sandwich Islands (by error) ; GUNTHER, 

 Fishes Central America, 419, pi. 65, fig. 3, 1866; EIOENMANN & HORNING, I. c. 8, 1887; 

 KVKIJMANN A; JENKINS, Proc. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 160. 



suss. <HJ;TOIK>\ SEDKNTAUUJS, Poey. 



Head 3k ; depth If. 1 >. XIII, 23 ; A. Ill, 19 ; scales 7-38-17. Body rather 

 deep, the back elevated; snout subconical, somewhat produced, scarcely 

 as long as eye, the profile concave. Dorsal and anal somewhat rounded 

 behind. Hows of scales extending upward and backward on upper parts 

 of body, those above most oblique, those of sides of belly mostly nearly 

 horizontal; no dark streaks along scales. Body yellowish, dusky above ; 

 ocular band dusky, very broad above, narrower below, edged with whit- 

 ish above in front, and broadly margined with yellow behind above, 

 continued below across the interopercle, the edgings merging below to 

 silvery; a very broad dark-brown vertical baud from extremity of dorsal 

 across tail over posterior half of soft dorsal and anal, edged behind with 

 white; caudal and veutrals pale. West Indies; rather scarce; our speci- 

 men taken by the Albatross at St. Lucia, (sedentarius, quiet, prone to sit.) 



Chcetodon sedeiititriiix. POEY, Memorias, u, 203, 1860, Cuba; EIGENMANN & HORNING, L c., 



8, 1887. 



Chcetodon gracilis, GTNTHEK, Cat., n, 20, 1860, Caribbean Sea; West Indies. 

 Sarothrodus sedentarii.Ht, POKY, Synopsis, 364, 1868. 



J0s. CILttTODON AYA, Jordan. 



Head 2|; depth If; snout 2f in head. D. XII, 18; A. Ill, 17; scales 

 9-36-17. Body short and deep, strongly compressed. Snout narrow, 

 sharp, considerably produced, its outline forming in front of eye a sharp 

 [ingle with the profile of the head; anterior profile steep and straignt 

 from before eye to first dorsal spine; eye large, about as long as snout 

 (in young), a little longer than post-orbital part of head. Dorsal fin 

 high, the second spine highest, very strong, as long as head; soft dorsal 



Erroneously attributed to the Sandwich Islands by Dr. Giinther; the types probably 

 from Panama. 



