Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1345 



portion of the supraoccipital. Supraoccipital crest making a sharp angle 

 over the eye, with a porous, gibbous portion of the frontal boues. Inter- 

 hiL'uial spiue having the peculiar structure seen in Calamus. Antrorse 

 spine before dorsal attached directly to the fourth interneural, no down- 

 ward process being evident. One species, found in rather deep water. 

 (6rpvvri}p,one who stirs up or whips, from orpvvoo, to stir; from the long 

 spine.) 



1717. OTRTNTER CAPRINUS (Bean). 



Head 3J; ; depth 2. D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 12 ; scales 5-50-15. Body subovato, 

 the back anteriorly much elevated, the depth about half the length to base 

 of caudal ; anterior profile steep and straightish, convex on nape and above 

 eye; temporal crest rudi'mentaiy, jiersisting in a swelling on the basal por- 

 tion of tlie supraoccipital bone; supraoccipital crest making a sharp angle 

 over eye with a porous, gibbons portion of the frontiil bones; snout short, 

 about 2 in head ; eye large, a little less than width of preorbital, about 3^ 

 in head; anterior teeth of jaws small, in close-set band, the outer series a 

 little enlarged, compressed, and lanceolate, much as in Sfe)totomus chrysops; 

 molars in two rows; dorsal spines very broad and flat; scales on the ante- 

 rior part of body much enlarged; anterior row of scales on cheek much 

 enlarged, extending to level of pupil, about 12 scales in the first series; 

 scaly sheath at base of soft dorsal and anal very conspicuous; pectoral a 

 little longer than head, 2f in body; caudal fin little forked, the middle ray 

 about 1| in longest ray. First and second dorsal spines very short, their 

 length about 3 in eye; third, fourth, and fifth more or less filamentous, the 

 third longer than head. Frontal bones gibbous and porous ; antrorse spine 

 attached directly to the interneural, no downward projecting part evident. 

 Color light olive ; silvery below ; the young with faint, very narrow darker 

 bars. Deep waters off the west coast of Florida; as yet known only from 

 numerous examples taken from the stomachs of snappers (Neomamis) and 

 groupers {Epinephelus) on the Florida snapper banks, (caprinus, like a 

 goat, the species having been sent in under the name "goat-head porgy," 

 which was a misunderstanding of the name "jolt-head porgy," which is 

 Calamus bajonado. ) 



Stenotomua ca2)rinus, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1882, 426, Snapper Banks off Pensacola 



(Type, No. 30795. Coll. Silas Stearns) ; Joudan & Fesleu, I. c, 507. 

 Argyrops caprinus, Jordan &, Gilbert, Synopsis, 929. 



551. STENOTOMUS, Gill. 



Stenotomus, Gill, Canadian Naturalist, AuguBt, 1865 {argyrops). 



This genus is close to Calamus, having the same quill-like interhjiemal 

 bones, the flattened incisors and antrorse dorsal spine mainly distinguish- 

 ing it; temporal crest obsolete; frontal bones not gibbous nor porous; 

 antrorse spine attached to the fourth interneural by a downward-project- 

 ing spine about thrice as long as the spine; lateral crest nowhere coalescing 

 with the supraoccipital crest; interorbital area Hattish, with two low 

 ridges, a small foramen in each of these above front of pupil; iuterorbital 

 area much contracted anteriorly ; a strongly projecting prefrontal process, 



