SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. AGI 
33. HAAMULON SEXFASCIATUM. 
Hemulon sexfasciatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 254 (Cape San Lucas); 
Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., 111, 1875 (Panama). 
Hemulon sexfasciatum, Jordan & Swain, |. ¢., 288; Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U.S. 
N. M. 1891, 153 (Guaymas). 
Diabasis sexfasciatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. F. C. 1881 (324), 1882 (107, 110) 
Aig chain Panama); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 361, 372, 
626 (Cape San Lucas, Colima, Panama); Jordan, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila. 
1883, 286 (on Peters’s type of maculosum). 
Hemulon maculosum Peters, Berliner Monatsberichte, 1869, 705 (Mazatlan). 
Habitat: Pacific coast of tropical America, Guaymas to Panama. 
Etymology: Sex, six; fasciatus, banded. 
This species is the Paine coast representative of Hamulon album, 
from which it differs strikingly in its coloration. It reaches a similarly 
very large size, specimens upwards of two feet in length having been 
obtained at Mazatlan by Prof.Gilbert. It is generally common along the 
Pacific coast of tropical America. We have examined the types both of 
Hemulon sexfasciatum and Haemuion maculosum. There is no doubt of 
their identity. The very young examples, types of the former species, 
show the crossbands of the adult, but not the spots on the head. 
Specimens are in the museum at Cambridge, from Acapulco. 
34. HA:MULON ALBUM. (Margate-fish; Jall4o; Margaret Grunt.) 
Percamarina gibbosa (Margate-fish) Catesby, Nat. Hist. Car., p. 2, pl. 2, 1742 (Bahamas). 
Perca gibbosa Walbaum, Artedi Pise., 1792, 348 (after Catesby), (not Perca gibbosa L.). 
Cailiodon gibbosus, Bloch & Schneider, Syst.Ichth., 1801, 312 (name and part of de- 
scription from Catesby; excl. syn. pars). 
Hemulon gibbosum, Jordan, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1884, 126 (Key West); Bean & Dresel, 
Proc. U.S. N.M. 1884, 158 (Jamaica); Jordan & Swain, 1. c., 290. 
Hemulon album Cuy. & Val., v, 241, 1830 (St. Thomas); Poey, Repertorio, 1, 310, 
1867; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens., 1868, 312 (Cuba, Key West); Poey, Enum. 
Pise. Cubens., 1875, 45; Giinther, 1, 311, 1859 (Jamaica); Poey, Bull. U.S. 
F.C. 1882, 118 (Key West). 
Diabasis albus, Putnam, Bull. M. C.Z., 1863, 12 (name only); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 
Fish. N. A., 924, 1883 (copied). 
Hemulon microphthalmum Giinther, 1, 306, 1859 (America). 
Hemulon chrysopterum Goode, Bull, U.S. N.M., v, 1876, 53 (excl. syn.). 
Habitat: West Indies, Florida Keys to Brazil. 
Ktymology: Albus, white. 
Hemulon album reaches a length of two feet or more, and is an im- 
portant food-fish both at Key West and Havana. English-speaking 
fishermen everywhere call it margate-fish, while the Spanish call it 
jalldo. Specimens are in the museum at Cambridge from Havana, 
Nassau, and St. Thomas. 
In all the species of Hamulon, Cuban specimens are decidedly more 
dusky than those from Key West. In several species, however, certain 
Cuban specimens are much paler than the average even of Key West 
