PROCEEDINGS OF UMTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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Measurements. 

 Species, LutJanus caballerote Poey. 



Cnrreut number of specimen 

 Locality 



Extreme length without caudal 



Length to end of middle caudal rays 



Body : 



Greatest height 



Height at ventrals 



Least height of tail 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Length of longest gill-raker 



"Width of interoihital area 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of inaxillary 



Length of upper jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal [iipincnis) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first spine 



Lengtii of second spine 



Length of fourth spine (longest) 



Length of last spine 



Dorsal (*o/f) : 



Length of base 



Length of hi st ray 



Length of longest ray 



Length of last ray 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Lengi h of base 



Length of first spine 



Length of second spine 



Length of third spine 



Length of tirst ray 



Length of longest ray (second) 



Length of last ray 



Candal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of external rays 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distiince from snout 



Length. 



Branchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



Number of scales in lateral line 



Number of transverse rows above lateral line 

 Number tif transverse rows below lateral line 



2. Lutjanus blackfordii Goode & Bean. 



Luljatins hlackfordii GooUE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 1878, p. 176^ 

 I full description of adult) ; II, 1879, pp. 137, 138 (characters and measure- 

 ments of young) ; Goode, Game Fishes N. A., 1878, p. IG, with colored 

 phite. Jordan tfc Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 549. 



Lutjanus campeachiatius Jordan & Gilrert, 1. c, p. 971 (not Mesoprion cam- 

 peachanus Poey, Mem. Cub., II, 18t)0, p. 149); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., VII, 1884, p. 35. 



Wlieu we described the Red Snapper as a new species under the name 

 Lutjanus blaclford a we were in possession of all the information concern- 



