91. SCI^NID^E LIOSTOMUS. 573 



and thick. Scales on head ctenoid. Second anal spine very stout, 

 nearly as high as the soft rays; caudal fin slightly lunate. Head 3; 

 depth 2. D. X-I, 23; A. II, 7; Lat. 1. 55. Pacific coast, north to 

 Point Concepcion. 



(Amblodon saturnus Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 93: niilnoscion saturnus Gill, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkila. 18G1, 85: Corvina saturna Giiuther, ii, 298.) 



dd. Dorsal with more than 30 soft rays. (Pareques* Gill.) 



9O1. S. actuninata (Bloch & Schneider) J. & G. 



Everywhere blackish, with traces of about 10 narrow horizontal 

 streaks along the sides; spinous dorsal quite black. [Young specimens 

 yellowish, with 7 or 8 straight longitudinal dark bands about as Avide as 

 the interspaces ; dorsal fin similarly banded. J Form of 8. saturna, the 

 back somewhat elevated, the profile steep and nearly straight from the 

 tip of the conical and rather pointed snout to the base of the dorsal. 

 Mouth not large, the maxillary extending to below the middle of the 

 eye. Lower jaw included; both jaws with broad bands of villiform 

 teeth, the anterior series in the upper jaw considerably enlarged. Scales 

 on the head scarcely ctenoid above, cycloid on the cheeks. Gill-rakers 

 short, rather stout. Pectorals very short, not reaching half way to the 

 tips of the ventrals, and but half way to the anal; as long as from the 

 snout to the edge of the preopercle; anal fin small, its tip not reaching 

 to the last ray of the second dorsal, its spine robust, nearly as high as 

 the fin, half the length of the head ; first dorsal small, with slender 

 spines; second dorsal very long, its tip nearly reaching caudal. Eye 

 rather large. Head 3; depth 3. D. IX, I, 30; A. II, 7; Lat. 1. 53. 

 West Indies to Florida. Here described from a specimen lately taken 

 by Mr. Silas Stearns at Pensacola, Fla. 



(Grammistes acuminatus Bloch & Schn. 1801, 184: Eques acuminatus Giiuther, ii, 280: 

 Pareque acuminatus Gill, 1. c.) 



297. I.IOSTOMUS Lace"pede. 

 Spots. 



(Liostomus Lace"pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 439, 1802: type Liostomus xanthurus Lac.) 



Body oblong, ovate, the back compressed. Head obtuse. Mouth 

 small, horizontal, the upper jaw with a band of feeble teeth, the lower 

 nearly or quite toothless; lower pharyngeals separate, the teeth paved. 

 Preopercle with a membranaceous border. Dorsal spines 10, slender, 

 rather high, the last connected with the soft rays; anal spines 2, the 



*Gill, in Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1876, v, 50: type Grammistes acuminatus Bloch 

 & Schneider, (nccpa, near: Eques.) 



