SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. A85 
above the lateral line a little larger than usual in Atlantic specimens, 
but this difference can not be depended on and is variable. Should a 
tangible variety ever prove appreciable, the name interruptus should 
be retained for the West Coast form. Specimens are in the Museum of 
Comparative Zodlogy, from Havana (type of Anisotremus obtusus Poey), 
from Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Galapagos Islands, Panama, and Magdalena 
Bay. The largest of these is about 2 feet in length. The Galapagos 
specimens are darkest in color and with the snout rather sharper. 
Those from the Galapagos and from Rio Janeiro have the scales above 
the lateral line a little less enlarged, 9 in an oblique series, downward 
and backward from first dorsal spine (7 in Panama specimen, 8 in 
specimen from Magdalena Bay). 
Lutjanus surinamensis Bloch is a dried and discolored specimen, 
which could have belonged to no other known species. Although 14 
dorsal spines are figured and the body represented as marked with dark 
crossbands, we have no doubt of its identity, and therefore substitute 
the name surinamensis for bilineatus. 
55. ANISOTREMUS BICOLOR. (Maria-Prieta.) 
Pristipoma bicolor Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares Amér, du Sud, 1850, 8, pl. 2, f. 2 
(Bahia). 
Anisotremus bicolor, Jordan, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1890, 519 (Bahia). 
? Pristipoma trilineatum Poey, Memorias, 11, 343, 1860 (Havana). 
Pristipoma brasiliense Steindachner, Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1863, p. 1013 
(Bahia). 
Habitat: Coast of Brazil. 
Etymology: Bicolor, two-colored. 
This species is known to us from several specimens from the coast 
of Brazil (Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, and Ceara), preserved in the 
museum at Cambridge, and from one taken by the Albatross at Bahia. 
It is very close to A. surinamensis, but has slightly larger scales and a 
somewhat different coloration, as well as a steeper and more gibbous 
front. Anisotremus trilineatus Poey may be the young of this species, 
but of this we are not sure. 
56. ANISOTREMUS SCAPULARIS. 
Pristipoma scapulare Tschudi, Fauna, Peruana, 1844, 12 (Huacho),. 
Diagramma melanospilum Kner, Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wissenschaft, 1867, 4 (west coast 
of South America). 
Pristipoma notatum Peters, Berl. Monatsb., 1869, 706 (‘‘angeblich aus Mazatlan’’). 
Pomadasys modestus, Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1883, 286 (probably not of 
Tschudi). 
Habitat: Coast of Peru. 
Etymology: Scapula, shoulder, from the shoulder spot. 
Of this species, one specimen, 4865, from Callao, is in the museum at 
Cambridge. Others examined by us are in the museum at Berlin. It 
has the central pore at the chin, the failure to find which led Kner to 
place the species in Diagramma. It seems to be identical with Peters’s 
type of P. notatum, preserved in the museum at Berlin, though it dis- 
