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Charleston have the pectorals but i length of body. The description of 

 TrUjla erolans given by Linnseus is of very little value, but the redescrip- 

 tiou of the type given by Dr. Bean leaves little doubt that it is this 

 species. In this species the gill rakers are longer than in any other except 

 its analogue, P. strigatus. Here descriljed from specimens from Charleston 

 and Beaufort. South Atlantic coast of United States ; known only from 

 North and South Carolina, where it is locally abundant, (evolans, iiyiug 

 out.) 



Trigla evolans, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 498, 1766, Carolina (Coll. Dr. Alex. Garden) ; 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 204 ; de.scription of Linn:tan type. 



Prionotus sarritor, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 615, Charleston ; Beau- 

 fort (Coll. Jordan & Gilbert) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 974, 1883 ; Jordan & 

 Swain, Proc. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 541. 



Prionotus evolans, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Am., 21, 1373; .Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 374; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 735, 1883; Jordan, Cat. Fish. 

 N. Am., 115, 1885 ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 541 ; Jordan & Hughes, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 336. 



2497. PRIONOTPS PUNCTATUS (Bloch). 



Head 2*; depth 2f; eye 6 in head, D. X-12; A. 12; about 50 pores in 

 lateral line. Body stout; head large; preopercular spine with a smaller 

 one at its l)ase; pectorals reaching past middle of anal, their length not 

 quite i- the body; gill rakers rather long and slender, about 10 devel- 

 oped; maxillary 2^ iu head; a bluntish spine on edge of snout behind the 

 serra^; behind this 1 or 2 smaller ones, at least in the young; no spine on 

 cheek bone; groove behind the eye evident; interorbital area rather nar- 

 row, concave; preocular, sui^raocular, occipital and nuchal spines rather 

 prominent; dorsal spines high, the third 2^ in head; first spiue not ser- 

 rate; mouth large, maxillarj'^ 21 to 2| in head, and reaching nearly to the 

 eye; a small spine on center of radiation of cheek and 1 before it. Color 

 nearly plain; spinous dorsal with dark clouds and without black ocelli; 

 pectoral dark, with some round brown spots above; caudal dark barred; 

 a whitish area on back between dorsals. Our description is taken from 2 

 small specimens collected (probably at Tuxpan) on the east coast of Mex- 

 ico, by Mr. T. Salt ; from the specimens in the museum at Paris, the types 

 of Cuvier and Valenciennes, and from a specimen taken by the Alhatross 

 at Bahia. This si^ecies is certainly the Prionotus punctatus of Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes, but it may not be the species figured by Plumier, to which 

 Bloch has given the name of Trigla punctata. The figure of Plumier 

 shows a bright-red body, with many small spots of a darker red, while 

 red spots are scattered over all of the fins, except the spinous dorsal and 

 the ventrals. In general form and in the armature of the head, so far as 

 this is shown in the plate, Plumier's figure most resembles the present 

 species, but the red color suggests a possibility that some of the deep- 

 water species may have been intended. The present species corresponds 

 better to the figure than any other yet known. Block's figiue of Trigla 

 Carolina, which has been identified with P. punctatus, is almost certainly 

 P. tribulus. West Indies and coast of South America ; not known from 

 the coasts of the United States, (punctatus, spotted.) 

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