DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIfi DISTRIBUTION. 237 



of the eye. The first spine is less than one-half as long as the second, which is about two 

 thirds as long as the eye. The anal spines are slender. The longest anal ray equals the 

 postorbital pari of the dead. The pectoral reaches to below the origin of the soft dorsal: 

 its length equals that of the head without the snout. The ventral begins slightly in ail 

 vance of the origin of the pectoral and it is nearly as long as the pectoral, its length one- 

 quarter of the total without caudal. 



Radial formula: I). t\. i, '■'; A. iv. 7: V. i. 5; P. i, 15. Scales 2 20 7. 



The colors have faded; traces of purplish brown on the upper parts and the head; 

 spinous dorsal with a dark triangular blotch on its upper portion extending from the second 

 to the sixth spine, involving less than half the height of the membrane. 



Specimens were obtained by the Albatross from station 2314, in 32° 43' X. lat.. 77° 51' 

 W. Ion. (oft' South Carolina), at a depth of 15!) fathoms; from station 2397, in 28° 42' N. 

 lat., 86 c •'!<>' W. Ion. (between the Delta of the Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a 

 depth of 280 fathoms; from station 2401, in 28° 38' 30" X. lat., S.". 52' 30" W. Ion. (be- 

 tween the Delta of the .Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a depth of 142 fathoms; 

 from station 2417, in 33 3 18' 30" X. lat.. 77 ■ 07 W. Ion. (off Cape Pear), at a depth of 95 

 fathoms; from station 2418, in 33° 20' X. lat., 77~ 05' W. Ion., at a depth of 90 fathoms; 

 from station 2425, in 36° 20' 24" X. lat., 74- 40' 30" \V. Ion., at a depth of 110 fathoms; 

 and from station 2426, in 30° 01' 30" X. lat.. 74^ 47' :50" W. Ion. (off North Carolina), in 93 

 fathoms. 



Family SERRANID^E. 



Serranidw. Richardson, Ielith. Erelms and Terror, 1848, IV (in part). — Gill, Arr. Fain. Fishes, 1872 (in 

 part.); Century Dictionary, 5573. — Jordan a Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mas., 526. — Jordan and 

 Eigenmann, Hull. U. S. F. C, viii, 1888,329, 433. 



Serranina, »•! niiikii, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, ~u, 81-212. 



Percoidea with the body oblong, compressed, and covered with scales; the head com- 

 pressed, and the cranium normal. The premaxiilaries not retractile behind, under the sub- 

 orbitals. The spinous part of the dorsal tin about as long as the soft, or longer, and with 

 3 anal spines developed. (Gill.) 



CENTROPRISTIS, Cuvier. 



Centropristes, Cuvier, Regue Animal, ed. 2, 1829. 



Centroprigtis, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 1829, 56. — Jordan- and Eigenmann, Bull. U. 



S. Fish Coin., viii, 1888 (1890), 390. 

 Trilobunts, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast U. S., 1861, 30. 



Serranoid fishes, with comparatively elongate body. No supplemental bone to the max- 

 illary. Teeth small, in broad bauds. Top of head naked, supraoccipital crest prominent, 

 encroaching somewhat on the frontal region. No hooked spinules on the lower limb of the 

 preoperculum. Scales large. Dorsal spines slender, the third a little elevated; some of 

 them with dermal appendages or filaments. Caudal tin not lunate, ending in 3 bands, the 

 middle rays extending beyond the outer ones. 



Two species of this genus have been found m deep water — one, Gentropristia pleuro- 

 spilus Giinther*,froin the sea between Australia and XewGuinea, near the Ki Islands, at a 

 depth of 110 fathoms; and Gentropristis investigatoris, Alcock,t from off the Madras coast, 

 in 100 fathoms. 



ANTHIAS, Schneider. 



Anthias, Bloi u. Syst. Ichth., 1792.— Ci'vier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 249.— GOnther, Cat. 



Fish. Iirit. Mus., I, 88.— JORDAN, Cat. Fish. X. Amer., 83. 

 Aylopon, Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 1810,52. 



Serranoids with strongly compressed body, closely resembling Serranm, but having the 

 lateral line placed very high and concurrent with the back, becoming abruptly straight and 



Challenger Report, I | Part \ i ), 37, pi. xvi. fig. D. 

 tAun. and Mag. Nat. Bist. (vi), September, 1890,199. 



