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D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 11 ; P. 16; V. I, 5; Scales 5-46-11. Tubes in lat- 

 eral line 46. 



Color light olive, with bright reflections, paler below. Back and sides 

 with 7 or 8 obscure dusky cross-bands, narrower than the interspaces; 

 these, doubtless, disappearing with age. Head without distinct mark- 

 ings. Fins plain olivaceous; the ventrals and posterior edge of caudal 

 slightly dusky, with faint traces of cross-bands on the lobes. 



13. Stenotomus caprinus n. s., Bean. 



Stcitotomus caprinus Beau, in Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. v, 

 p. 23y, uame only: also iu Jor. & Gilb., op. cit., "278. 



Two specimens, No. 30795, of a new species of Stenotomus were ob- 

 tained, from the stomachs of red snapper at Pensacola, Florida, by Mr. 

 Silas Stearns. Two were also similarly obtained by Professor Jordan at 

 Pensacola. It is distinguished from >S^. versicolor by the presence of two 

 short spines in advance of the elongate spines of the first dorsal, by the 

 great elongation of the anterior dorsal spines, and by the greater depth 

 of the cheeks and preorbital region. 



Description. — Body irregular oblong-ovate. Its height is contained 

 twice in its length. Its height at the tail is contained 4^ times in its 

 greatest height, and a little more than three times in the length of the 

 head. 



Scales in lateral line 45 to 47 ; above it, seven ; below, fourteen. An- 

 terior profile protuberant over the eyes; mouth moderate, maxillary 

 arching almost to the vertical from the anterior margin of the orbit. 

 Length of the ui)i)er jaw contained 2f times iu that of head. There 

 are ten narrow compressed incisors in the front of the upper jaw, and 

 the same number in Iront of the lower jaw. Two rows of small molars 

 in each jaw, the inner series very slightly larger than the outer. 



Eyes circular, their diameter contained 3^ times in the length of the 

 head. 



Distance between insertion of dorsal and snout contained 2;^ times in 

 length of body. In front of the elongate dorsal rays are two nj) right 

 and slightly curved spines, the height of which equals the diameter of 

 the pupil, and a well-developed spine of about the same length project- 

 ing forward horizontally. The dorsal spines, from the third to the 

 seventh, inclusive, are much elongated, filamentous, the length of the 

 first being equal to the length of the pectoral fin, and contained 2^ 

 times in the body length. The base of the dorsal is equal to half the 

 distance from tip of snout to the end of the middle caudal rays. 



The anal is inserted in the perpendicular from the origin of the soft 

 dorsal, almost equidistant between the tip of the snout and the tip of 

 the upper caudal lobe. The three anal spines are stout, the second and 

 third being the longest and of equal length, slightly shorter than the 

 anal rays. The length of the base of anal equals the length of the 

 sixth dorsal sjiine, and also the length of the ventral. 



Caudal fin forked. The outer rays of the lower lobe twice as long as 



