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Europe from Norway to the Mediterranean and the Cape of (rood Hope, and has also been 

 recorded from Madeira and the Southern Indian Ocean. 

 A specimen was obtained on the Grand Banks by one of the Gloucester fishing vessels. 



Family LUTJANID^. 

 Luijanida, Gill. Proc. V. S. Nat. Mm*.. 1884, 351. 



Acanthopterygiansofthe ordinary type with compressed bead and body, the supramax- 



illary bones slipping under the preorbital, continuous lateral line, dorsal with spinous 

 part depressible in a groove. Pectorals with lower rays branched. Teeth all conical and 

 pointed, and canines more or less developed in jaws. Vomer dentigerons. Preopercle 

 senate. Dorsal tin continuous. Pyloric caeca few. 



APRION, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Aprion, CuviEB and Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 18, xx, 544, pi. clxviii.— GCntheh, Cat. FiBh. 

 Brit. Mus., i. si.— Gill, Proc. V. 8, -Nat. Mm-., 1881, 351. 



Lutjanoids characterized by the presence of villiform teeth on the vomer, acute teeth 

 in the jaws; interobital area flat, separated by a line from the occipital region. Dorsal fin 

 continuous. Supraorbital margin eremite; periotic region much swollen outwards, and 

 with the bones thin and polished; preorbital moderate; frontals behind, with funnel- 

 shaped foramina; soft dorsal and anal scaleless; last rays of dorsal and anal produced. 

 (Jordan.) 



APRION MACROPHTHALMUS, (MCller) Jordan and Swain. (Figure 314.) 



Centropri8tia maerophthalmus, Miller and Trosciiel, in Schomburgh's Hist. Barbadoes, 666, 1848 (young). 

 Elastoma macrophthalmus, Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 468, 1869 (St. Martin's, New Providence, St. Croix). 

 Mesoprion vorax, Poet, Mem., n, 151, 1860 (Cuba I, 

 Platyinim runts, (Jill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862 (generic diagnosis). — Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cub., 



1868, 292; Enunieratio, Pise Cub., 1875, 31. 

 Aprion macrophthalmus, Jordan and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vn, 1884, 467. 



An Aprion having the body oblong-elliptical, its height contained 3 times in length. 

 Mouth rather small, the canines feeble; tongue toothless; vomerine teeth in a A-shaped 

 patch. Scales large, regularly arranged, those above lateral line in series parallel with the 

 lateral line, which contains from 53 to GO scales, with 7 above, 14 or 1.3 below, and 52 pores. 

 Dorsal spines 10; last ray of dorsal and anal produced. Gill-rakers numerous, about 17 

 on lower part of arch. Color rose-red, with some pearly markings. 



Radial formula : D. x, 11 ; A. in, 8. 



This species, described from moderate depths off Barbadoes, St. Martin's, New Provi- 

 dence, St. < Iroix, and Cuba, was taken by the Blake at station CCLXi, in 23° 15' N. lat., 89° 

 10' W. Ion., at a depth of 84 fathoms. 



VERILUS, Poey. 



Verilm, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, n, 1860, 125.— Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 355.— Jordan and 

 Swain. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vn, 429,470. 



A genus of Lutjanoids characterized by cavernous frontals (like those of Scia?noids), 

 with longitudinal osseous bars, leaving interspaces in front of transverse ridge and on each 

 side near the front; supraorbital margins smooth: prefrontals behind with simple foramina 

 for olfactory nerves; body comparatively short and deep; head scaly above and on jaws 

 and snout; soft dorsal and anal scaly at base; peritoneum and lining of gill cavity black; 

 caudal lunate.* 



* This, as Jordan and Swain have pointed out, is evidently from its structure a true bathybial form. 



