280 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Mouth very wide; premaxillary not protractile, very long and strong, 

 more than half the length of the head; maxillary closely connected 

 with it. very small or obsolete. Premaxillary with one or two series of 

 large, compressed, knife-shaped teeth, the inner and larger depressible. 

 Palatine teeth similar, smaller, in a single broad band. Lower jaw with 

 a band of rather large teeth, the inner and larger teeth, depressible; a 

 patch of strong, depressible teeth, on the tongue in front, and a long 

 row along the hyoid bone. Jaws nearly equal. Eye rather large, 

 anterior. Supraorbital forming a projection above the eye. Pseudo- 

 branehia 1 well developed. Gill-rakers very small, spine-like. Gill- 

 membranes slightly connected. Top of head naked. Cheeks and oper- 

 cles scaled like the body. Body covered with rather small, adherent, 

 cycloid scales. Lateral line present. No phosphorescent spots. Dor- 

 sal fin short, rather anterior. Pectorals moderate, inserted high. Yen- 

 trals anterior, not far behind pectorals, large, the inner rays longer than 

 the outer. Anal short. Caudal narrow, forked. Branchiostegals 12-10. 

 Stomach with a long, blind sac and many pyloric cceca. Skeleton rather 

 firm. Species numerous. Voracious lishes of moderate size, inhabiting 

 sandy bottoms at no great depth. In most warm seas. (<7u;<'><",nu-, ancient 

 name of some fish, from iru-^Jdou^j teeth meeting, not shutting past each 

 other like scissors.) 



* Snout rather pointed, longer than eye; upper jaw the louger. (Sy nodus.) 

 4G3. S. fCBtCBlS (L.) Gill. X<m<l /'//><; Li;<irtl-li*li. 



Olivaceous; yellowish below; back mottled; upper surface of head 

 brownish, distinctly vermieulated with yellowish; ventral tins, lower 

 side of head, and inside of mouth tinged with yellow. Eye moderate, 

 ~>\ in head. Scales less regularly a: ranged and the rows less oblique 

 than in N. li'ii>cc]>s ; those on the opcrcle in about ." rows, on the cheeks 

 in 7; L'5-.'J!) scales along back before dorsal, 1 in a vertical row between 

 adipose I'm and lateral line, 5 in an oblique row. Pectoral I'm short, 

 not reaching ventrals, its length three-fourths that of the premaxillary. 

 Ventral lar^e, its length from outer edge of base greater than from lip 

 of snout to upper edge of gill-opening. Interorhital space considerably 

 concave, with radial ing ridges. Head I ',. II. IL'; 1). 11; A. 11; V. S; 

 scales 7-IH-S (the \erlical rows counted obliquely). L. ll' inches. Cape 

 Cod to South America; common southward. Not valued as food. 



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