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hh. (Anterior part of body without dark crossbars, the body some- 
times plain yellowish, the back usually violet, with 4 or 5 yellow 
lines; silvery below; snout short, not longer than width of eye; 
dorsal fin very deeply notched, with feeble spines; second and 
third anal spines equal in length; body a little more oblong than 
in surinamensis. D. xu, 13; A. 01,9. (Cuv, §° Val.) ..SERRULA, 61, 
51. ANISOTREMUS PACIPFICI. 
Conodon pacifici Giinther, Proc. Zobl. Soc. London, 1864, 147 (Chiapas). 
Pomadasis pacifici, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc, U.S. N. M. 1881, 385 (Panama). 
Habitat: Pacific coast of Central America. 
Etymology: From Pacific (Ocean). 
This small, plain-colored species is rather common about Panama. 
52, ANISOTREMUS CAISIUS. 
Pomadasys cesius Jordan & Gilbert, Proe. U.S. N. M. 1881, 383 (Mazatlan). 
Habitat: Pacifie coast of Mexico. 
Etymology: Casius, silver-gray. 
This species is known from the three types taken in the harbor of 
Mazatlan and from a specimen at Cambridge from Acapulco. 
53. ANISOTREMUS DOVII. 
Pristipoma dovii Giinther, Proc. Zoél. Soe. London, 1864, 23 (Panama). 
Pomasasis dovii, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 386 (Mazatlan, Panama). 
Habitat: Pacific coast of tropical America. 
Etymology: Named for Capt. John M. Dow. 
This strongly-marked and handsome species is not rare on the Pacific 
coast of tropical America. 
54. ANISOTREMUS SURINAMENSIS. (Pompon.) 
Lutjanus surinamensis Bloch, Ichthyol., pl. 253, 1791 (Surinam). 
Pristipoma surinamense, Cuv. & Val., v, 273, 1830 (same type). 
Holocentrus gibbosus Lacépede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., rv, 344, 1803 (same type). 
Pristipoma bilineatum, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 271, 1830 (Martinique). 
Anisotremus bilineatus, Jordan, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1890, 319 (Bahia); Jordan & Boll- 
mann, l. ¢., 1889, 181 (Indefatigable Island). 
Pristipoma melanopterum Cuy. & Val., 1. ¢., 273 (Brazil). 
Hamulon obtusum Poey, Memorias, 11, 1860, 182 (Havana). 
Hemulon labridum Poey, Memorias, 11, 1860, 419 (Cuba). 
Genytremus interruptus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1861, 256 (Cape San Lucas). 
Pristipoma fiirthi Steind., Ichth. Beitriige, v, 4, 1876 (Panama). 
Pomadasys bilineatus and fiirthi, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1881, 385 (West 
Indies, Peru, Brazil, Magdalena Bay, Cape San Lucas, Gulf of California, 
Mazatlan, Panama, Galapagos Islands). 
Habitat: Both coasts of tropical America, north to Cuba and Mag- 
dalena Bay. 
Etymology: From Surinam. 
This species is the most widely distributed of any of the genus. It 
reaches a larger size than the others and is subject to a considerable 
variation in form. Pacific Coast examples usually have the scales 
