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above tin- snout. Mouth oblique, the lower jaw scarcely shorter than 

 the upper; the maxillary extending to below the middle of the small 

 eye. Teeth as in <S'. pnm-t<tta, but with series of larger teeth less devel- 

 oped and the villifonn band broader. Preorbital full, cavernous; pre- 

 operele cavernous, its margin with a few strong teeth. Pseudobranchia3 

 well developed. Gill-rakers loug and slender. Dorsal spines slender; 

 caudal strongly convex; second anal spine rather long, slender, nearly 

 as long as soft rays. Ventral outline nearly straight. Vent a little 

 nearer preopercular margin than base of caudal. Pectorals short, not 

 reaching tips of ventrals. Head 3J in length; depth 3. D. XI, I, 2U; 

 A. II, 9; Lat. 1. 50. West Indies, north to Virginia. Ilere described 

 from a specimen from Peusacola. 



xtellifer Bloch, lelith. taf. 231: Cheilodipterns acoupa Lacdperte, iii, 546: 

 Con-inn trixpinosa Cuv. & Val. v, 109: Romoprion lanceolutus Holb. Ich. S. Car. 1860, 

 HI?: Si-iu-iui hinci nlnla Ciinther, ii, 289: SteUifcnis lanci-vldtiix Gill, Report U. S. Fish 

 Coinin. l w ?'J-7:{, H).~> : ? Corrina xt ell if era Gunther,ii, 299=Cormna mirropx Steind. Ichth. 

 Noti/. i, (I. 1-iil, said to he distinguished from S. sfellifera by the smaller eye ((> in head), 

 narrower intcrnrbital .space (-JJ in head) and weaker serriu on the preopcrde. Per- 

 haps more than om- species is here included.) 



I). Head normal, narrow between the eyes. (Hairdiclla* Gill.) 



898. S. pllBictata (Linn.) J. & G. Silrrr 1'i-n-h ; Yellow-tail; Ma<lfiuoixi-lle. 



Greenish above, silvery below, each scale with a series of dark punc- 

 tulations through the centre, usually very conspicuous, sometimes ob- 

 scure, these forming narrow somewhat irregular streaks along the sides j 

 fins plain, tlie caudal yellowish. Body oblonjr, compressed, rather robust. 

 Head cMinpressed, conical, not specially depressed, nor broadened; pre- 

 operculum scaicely cavernous, strongly seriated or spinous at its angle; 

 interorbital region depressed, transversely convex, narrower than eye. 

 Mmith rather lai-ge. somewhat, oblique, maxillary reaching about to 

 middle of orbit; jaws sutequal ; both jaws with stout recurved teeth, 

 behind which in the upper jaw are a lew series of smaller teeth; teeth 

 in the. lower jaw mostly in one series, outside of which are a few smaller 

 teeth. Dorsal spines moderate; anal fin small, placed unusually far 

 back, coterminous with the second dorsal Second anal spine strong, 

 nearly as long as the soft rays. Scales in less oblique series than usual. 

 Gill-rakers long and slender. Soft dorsal and anal fins considerably 

 Is; pectoral tin quite short, not reaching half way to anal ; caudal fin 

 double truncate. Lower pharyn-'eals small, with sharp teeth. Eye 



l. I'roc. A. ad. Nat. Sci. I'liila. Mil, 83: typo Bodianm argyrolcucua Mitch. (Dedi- 

 cated to Spencer F. Baird.) 



