and soft part with smaller evenly distributed marginal edges, 
Tips of caudal lobes with deep brown blotch, lower not marginal. 
Pectoral dusky. Ventral tinted yellowish. VPeritoneum silvery. 
Haemulidae. 
Anisotremus scapularis (Tschudi). 
Head 2 7/8 to 3; depth 2 1/5 to 2¢; D. XI, I, 1, 11, 
Lor 2,45, 1:00. 224, Ay Le, 2h or 16, Ly scales: 62 to 71 
aiong lateral line to caudal base and 7 to 9 more on latter;; 
tubes 52 to 55 inlateral line to caudal base and 6 to 10 
more on latter; 14 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal 
origin; 10 to 12 above v6 base of first dorsal ray, 19 below 
to spinous anal origin; 48 to 55 predorsal scales; snout 3 1/5 
to 3 2/5 in head; eye 3% to 4 1/8; maxillary 3 1/8 to 3%; inter- 
orbital 3 to 32. 
Body deeply ovoid, back elevated forward, strongly com- 
presséd; least depth of caudal peduncle about 1¢ to 1 1/3 its 
length or 2 4/5 to 3 1/8 in head, Head width 1 9/10 to 2 in 
its length. Snout obtuse, convex, length 3/4 to 7/8 its width, 
Eye advanced before middle in head, or center about first third 
in head length; hind eye edge about midway in smaller example, 
Mouth small, low, lower jaw included. Maxillary little beyond 
front eye edge, not quite to pupil; expansion 23 to 2% in eye. 
Teeth simple, conic, slightly curved, in broad bands in jaws, 
