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sweeping downward from middle of ist spine, intersecting back at bases of 4th 

 to 6th spines, and crossing body just in advance of the silvery-white bar on side; 

 another under middle of soft dorsal; with indications of stripes on nape and 

 along base of soft dorsal; one stripe extending from level of upper margin of eye 

 to end of dorsal base, and another from opercular lobe to base of caudal. The 

 characteristic silvery band on the side from just in advance of the vent seems 

 always present. 



Dr. Longley also had the interesting note: "A specimen 160 mm. long had the 

 ventral side of the gonad white. Though the eggs were immature, a few motile 

 sperms were found in the whitish portion. Hermaphroditism, therefore, is indi- 

 cated, as in several related species." 



West Indies and Florida. S. F. H. 



Prionodes baldwini Evermann and Marsh 



In the summer of 1921 a species of Prionodes was rather common on dead 

 Acropora bottom, beside one of the great coral shoals far up the Loggerhead 

 bank. 



In coloration the Tortugas specimens, except in being less red, differ little from 

 the type material, which came from 15 or 16 fathoms. Therefore, with slight 

 probability of error these Tortugas fish belong to P. baldwini. This is then an- 

 other of the rather common serranids which display a much redder phase in deep 

 than in shallow water. 



A specimen taken with dynamite had the iris vermilion; a dark line or row 

 of spots through the eye, almost to base of caudal; a second line tangent to eye 

 above; a third at base of dorsal uniting with its fellow and running as one on 

 dorsal side of caudal peduncle; three narrow brown lines on cheek, and two 

 under jaw almost at right angles to those on cheek; an orange -yellow spot on 

 opercle continued posteriorly as a yellow line as far as vent; base of pectoral 

 orange; three to five bars and two spots brownish above and orange below 

 behind pectoral, and below level of yellow line just mentioned; a brown spot 

 above lateral line corresponding to last one on caudal peduncle; base of caudal 

 with four brown spots of size of pupil; base of fin itself with two narrow reddish 

 bars. W. H. L. 



A single specimen, 57 mm. long, is in the collection. The following proportions 

 and enumerations are based on this example: Head 2.6; depth 3.0. Eye in head 

 4.5; snout 4.0; interorbital 8.5; maxillary 2.3; caudal peduncle 2.7; pectoral 1.3; 

 ventral 1.3. D. X,i2; A. 111,7; P- J 45 scales 4-43-12, seven oblique rows on cheek; 

 gill rakers 7 and 3 rudiments; branchiostegals 6. 



West Indies, here recorded from Florida for the first time. S. F. H. 



Prionodes atrobranchus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



At 40 to 80 fathoms, south of Tortugas, as many as 30 specimens were taken 

 at once. It apparently attains a length of only about 125 mm., and differs from 

 the type of Prionodes atrobranchus in little besides color. 



