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length to base of caudal. Body and bead stouter, the plates rougher; 

 Irs somewhat larger, in about 55 series. Atlantic coast; common 

 southward. 

 (f Tritjla n-vlans L. Syst. Xai. ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 374.) 



Subsp. lineal us (Mitch.) J. & G. 



Olive brown above, mottled and spotted with blackish; whitish be- 

 low; a narrow dark streak along the lateral line, with a broader one 

 below it, which terminates behind in a series of spots and blotches; 

 lower jaw and branchiostegal membranes sometimes bright orange-yel- 

 low; pectorals blackish, edged with olivaceous and orange, with numer- 

 ous transverse dark lines; membrane of spiuous dorsal with a black 

 blotch between third and sixth spines; soft dorsal plain or with 2 black 

 blotches at base; ventrals and anal orange; pectoral appendages slen- 

 der, dusky. Gill-rakers rather long and slender, 15 below angle; band 

 of palatine teeth wide, shorter than eye; spines on head moderate in 

 size, compressed, the one at upper posterior angle of orbit little devel- 

 oped; membranous edge of opercle scaly; ventral reaching to front of 

 anal; pectoral reaching to past middle of soft dorsal and anal, from 1J 

 to 2J in length. Head 1':] in length; depth 4A. Eye 2A in snout. D. 

 X-12; A. 11; Lat. 1. about GO. Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras; common 

 northward. Perhaps a distinct species, but seeming to vary into the 

 preceding. 



(Tr'Hjln Innnla Mitchill, Trans. Lit. A rhil. Soc. N. Y. i, 430, 1815: Primiotus lincatua 

 rr, Hist. Fish. Mass.: Prinoiiin lineatus Giinther, ii, 19:2: J'rionotuv otrigatun Cuv. 



& Val. iv, 86.) 



1127. P. str|>li:iiiop!ii'ys Lockington. 



I '.ile olivaceous, abruptly white at level of pectorals; back and sides 

 with a lew scattered dark spots; branehiostegals mostly satVron-yellow; 

 spinous dorsal dusky, with a diffuse dark blotch between fourth and 

 lifth spines, near edge of membrane; second dorsal spotted; caudal 

 with dark blotches; pectorals dark, with large round black spots. 

 Body rather stout ; head large, compressed, broad, and very nearly 

 plane above; the in) erorbit al region not concave; no transverse fur- 

 row behind orbits; orbital rim with a slightly raised, serrated crest; 

 snout very short, two -fifths length of head; month large, the broad 

 maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit; bands of palatine teeth very 

 narrow; gill-rakers long and slender; head less rough than usual, the 

 bones little striate; occipital processes not reaching first dorsal spine; 

 preorbital little projecting; preopercle with a strong smooth spine, 



