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in the markets of Havana, .wliere it is known as Ahadejo or BacaJaOy 

 both words meaning cod. The \^v\Qij phenax is abundant about the 

 •Florida Keys, being brought in every day to the markets of Key West. 

 It is also often taken with the hook and line on the Snapper Banks at 

 Pensacola. It is known everywhere on the Florida coast as "Scamp.'^ 

 Little is known of the southward range of this species. 



3. Mycteroperca tigris. Bonaci Gato. 



a. Var. ttgris (brown variety). 



Serranus tigris, Cut. & Val., ix, 440, 1833 (San Domingo) ; Glinther, i, 112, 1859 



(copied). 

 Trisotrojns tigris, Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1869, 307 (Havana) ; Poey, 



Enum. Pise. Cubens., 1875, 14. 

 berranus felinus, Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 134, 1860 (Havana). 

 Serranus repandus, Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 135, 1860 (Havana). 



' i, Var. camelopardalis (red variety). 



Serranus camelopardalis, Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 132, 1860 (Havana). 

 Trisotrojns camelopardalis, Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 283, 1868: Poey, Ann. Lye. 



Nat. Hist. N. Y., 307, 1869; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub.. 1875, 14. 

 Serranus rivulatus, Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 1860, 135 (Havana). 



Habitat. — Cuba ; San Domingo. 



DESCEIPTION OF VAR. TIGRIS. 



Head, 2f (3=i) ; depth, 3i (4^). D. XI, 16; A. Ill, 11. Scales, 22- 

 133-x. Length, 12 inches. 



Body rather robust, somewhat compressed; its greatest width half 

 its greatest depth; bead moderately pointed, its anterior profile gently 

 curved ; mouth moderate, the maxillary extending slightly beyond eye, 

 2^ in head ; teeth in very narrow bands, the lateral teeth larger than in 

 related species ; each jaw with two strong canines in front, not directed 

 forward ; eye small, 7 in head ; interorbital space convex, 6 in head ; 

 posterior nostril much larger than anterior, not twice its own diameter 

 from eye ; preopercle with a very slight notch, the angle not at all salient, 

 but with slightly enlarged teeth. 



Scales small, mostly ctenoid ; dorsal spines rather slender, the second 

 slightly longer than tenth, the third and fourth highest, 3J in head; 

 caudal concave, the inner rays 1^ in outer, which are 1§ in head ; anal 

 with its posterior margin subtruncate, the longest rays 2^ in head; 

 pectorals reaching beyond tips of ventral, 2 in head. Pyloric coeca 15 

 (Poey). Color in life, olive brown, with about five pale grayish cross- 

 bands, narrower than the interspaces, these bands almost obsolete in 

 spirits. All the fins bluish black, the vertical fins edged with whitish, 

 and the pectorals tipped with orange. Top of head reddish, becoming 

 dusky in spirits. 



According to Poey, his Trisotropis camelopardalis differs from tigris 

 only in its redness of color. The case is apparently parallel with that 



