12 Eevieiv of the CUmtodontidce 



ce. Scales in later alii lie 4S ; the ((nglts of the c<ii(dal produced into 

 filaments ; iweorhital irith a distinct hlrint spine. Color in 

 life : head, anterior part of trunk and caudal fin, golden yel- 

 low ; rest of body, snout and chin, black ; dorsal, anal and 

 opercle edged with scarlet ; orange on upper and lower ray 

 of caudal ; iris yellow, blue above and below. Depth ]f in 

 length ; head ^. D. XIV, 19 : A. Ill, 18. Scales 3-48-25. 

 First dorsal spine 1^ in length of the last, which is 2^ in head. 



Tricolok, 18. 



dd. Ascending limb of preoiJenie armed irith S to U strong spines, the 

 largest about ^ the length of the large spine at the angle, ichich 

 is 3^ to 41 in head ; caudal obliquely rounded ; its angles not 

 produced ; angle of dorsal and anal very much produced, 

 their tips extending be^'ond caudal ; preorbital without a 

 distinct spine. Color in life : yellowish brown on sides, each 

 scale with a darker or orange spot : back shaded with violet, 

 which grows brighter and merges into intense sky-blue along 

 the edges of the spinous dorsal and on the region before the 

 dorsal ; scales of dorsal region with brown spots like those 

 on sides ; head paler ; the upper lips yellowish, lower jaw 

 reddish ; spines of preopercle and ed ^e of opercle very brigiit 

 sky-blue; iris yellow, marked above and below by blue: a 

 blue bar extending from in front of first dorsal spine half 

 way to eye ; breast a sky-blue ; pectorals sky blue at base, 

 then broadly golden, its edge pale ; ventrals golden ; poste- 

 rior edge and produced lobe of dorsal and anal golden yel- 

 low ; caudal broadly edged with yellow. Depth \\ to If in 

 length; head 3i to 8|. D. XIV, 20. A. III. 18. Scales 

 8-45-28. First dorsal spine about 2| in the length of tlie last , 

 which is. 2i in head. Vertebrae 10-f 14. Ciltakis, 14. 



9. POMACANTHUS AUREUS. 



Chcetodon aureus B]och, Ichthyologia, taf. 193, fig. 1, 1787; Walbaum, Ar- 

 tedi Genera, 407, 1792 (copied) ; Bloch & Schneider. Syst. Ichth., 217, 

 1801 (Antilles) ; Turton, Linnseus Syst. Nat., I, 773, 1806 (copied): 

 Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 850, 1868 (C:uba). 



Fomacanthus aureus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1802 (Brazil) ; Cuvier 

 & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 202, 1831 (St. Thomas. San 

 Domingo): Storer, Syn. Fish. N. A., 340, 1845 (copied) : Poey, Mem. 

 de Cuba, II. 371, 1860 (Cuba) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884. 

 131 (Key West) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. North America, 1885, 103 (name 

 only). 



Chiricita Parra, Descr. Dif. l^iez. Hist. Nat. Cub., 10, plate 6, tig. 2, 1787 

 (Cuba). 



