660 LÖNNBERG, NOTES ON PISHES COLLECTED AT HAYTI. 



downward, and then upward. There are six scales in a series 

 from the beginning of dorsal fin, to lateral line, but the upper- 

 niost is small. Lateral line about 54 on the body, *) but it 

 extends on the head as far as it is scaly on the interorbital 

 Space. 



Dorsal: XII, 15. 



Anal: III, 8. 



Dorsal spines moderate; the fourth 2}, in head. 



Second anal spine a little longer and much stronger than 

 third, nearly of the same length as fourth dorsal, when de- 

 pressed it reaches beyond the last rays. Ventrals 1| in head 

 or 57,1 % of the length of head. Pectorals Ifj in head or 71,4 

 % of the length of head. Caudal rather deeply cleft, middle 

 rays about half as long as the upper lobe, which is larger than 

 the lower. Colour in alcohol, light bluish gray as ground colour. 

 A dark golden-bronze band through the middle of all scales. 

 These bands are not so broad as the interspaces of ground-colour 

 between thera. The direction of these bands is given by the 

 rows of scales, thus they are horizontal below the lateral line, 

 a little wavy posteriorly. Above the lateral line the bands are 

 parallel to the same through ten scales behind the head and 

 then turn obliquely upward, as all the upper stripes do, behind 

 these foremost ones. The posterior upper stripes are also wavy. 

 On caudal peduncle the stripes are less conspicuous. Head dark 

 without stripes. A faint black mark under the angie of the 

 preopercle. Vertical fins dark, pectoral and ventral fins dusky. 

 On places, where the scales have been lost, the stripes are blackish 

 brown. 



P^rom this description it can be seen that there is no doubt 

 as to the specific value of II asm u lon Eckmani. 



9) Coyiodon nobilis (Lin.) Jordan & Gilbert. (= C. plu- 

 inieri [Bloch]). 



1 specimen. 



') Ab Bome scales are damaged in the lateral line on both sides 1 am not per- 

 1'ectlv sure about the exact number. perhaps they are only 5'2. 



