FISHES OF NEW YORK 679 



335 Prionotus strigatus Cuv. & Val. 

 Red-winged Sea 'Robin 



'Trigla lineata MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 430, pi. IV, fig. 4, 



1815; not Trigla lineata BLOCH. 



Frifjla strif/ata CUVIER, Regne Anim. ed. II, 2, 161, 1829, New York. 

 Prionotus Jincatus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 45, pi. 4, fig. 12, 1842; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 192, I860. 

 Prionotus evolans var. Uneatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



736, 1883. 

 Prionotus evolans GOODE, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 255, pi. 71, 1884; not 



Trigla evolans LINNAEUS. 

 Prionotus strigatus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist Nat. Poiss. IV, 86, 1829; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 974, 1883; BEAN, 



19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 250, 1890; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



IX, 371, 1897; H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 106, 1898; JORDAN 



& EVERHANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. II, 2167, 1898. 



The length of the head is contained two and two thirds times 

 in the length of the body, which is four and one half times the 

 depth of the body. The length of the eye is contained two and 

 one half times in the length of the snout. 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 developed; mem- 

 branous edge of opercle scaly; ventral reaching to front of 

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

 one and seven eighths to two and one fourth in length. 

 D. X-12; A. 11; Lat. 1. about 60. 



Olive brown above, mottled and spotted with blackish; whit- 

 ish below; a narrow 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 yellow; pectorals blackish edged with olivaceous 

 and orange, with numerous transverse dark lines; membrane 

 of spinous dorsal with a black blotch between third and sixth 

 spines; soft dorsal plain or with two black blotches at base; 

 ventrals and anal orange; pectoral appendages slender, dusky. 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras; common northward. Perhaps a 

 distinct species but seeming to vary into P. evolans. 



