Jo7-dan and Ever man?!. — Fishes of North America. 535 



Ml. Head moderate, 3% \o 43^ in length; scales on cheeks in 6 or 7 rows. 



i. Head not venniculato above, its length 3% to 4 in body; 6 rows of 



scales on checke. jenkinsi, 813. 



II. Head vermiciilatc above, its length 4 to 4^^ in l)ody; 7 rows of scales 



on cheeks. FiETENS, 814. 



gg. Abont rows of scales in a vertical row between lateral line and adipose fin; 



cheeks with rows of scales; scales 13-6G-16, the vertical rows counted 



obliquely. I.UCIOCEI'S, 815. 



806. SYNODUS IXTERMEDIUS (Agassiz). 

 (SANn Diver.) 



Head 4 ; depth 8 ; eye 4^. D. 11; A. 11; scales 4-48-7. Body rather 

 stout; head blunt, large, the snout broader than long, about equal to 

 eye. Frontal bones little striate; interorbital space concave, 6 in head; 

 prominent strite behind eye; jaws subequal ; premaxillary Ij in head, 

 longer than pectoral. Scales large, 4 to 6 rows on cheeks, 3 series 

 between adipose fin and lateral line. Dorsal high, as high as long; pec- 

 toral 2 in head; ventral 1^. Grayish, abruptly paler below; back and 

 sides with 8 dark crossbands broadest at lateral line, these some- 

 times alternating with fainter ones ; a large jet-black blotch on upper 

 part of shoulder girdle, hidden by opercle ; membrane of maxillary 

 black ; dorsal and pectorals finely barred ; lower fins and branchiostegals 

 yellow ; adult with an orange spot on each scale below. Length 15 

 inches. Coast of southern J^lorida to Brazil ; not rare; the most brightly 

 colored of our species, (intermedius, iiltermediate — between myops and 

 foctens.) 



Saurits intermedins, Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 81, 1828, Brazil. 



Saunis atiolui, CuviEU & Valexoiexnes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxii, 483, 1849, Bahia ; Martinique. 



Saunis intennecUns, Gt'XTHEn, Cat., v, 396, 18G4. 



Synodus intermedius, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 889, 1883. 



807. SYNOOrS ETERMANNI, Jordan & Bollmau. 



Head 3^^ to 3t ; depth 6^ to 7. D. 10 ; A. 10 ; scales 4-47 to 49-5. Body 

 terete, rather robust ; snout short, rounded rather than pointed, 4 in 

 head. Mouth large ; maxillary If iu head. Lower jaw bai'ely project- 

 ing. Interorbital area concave, rugose, its least width 5j in head; 

 supraorbital ridge prominent, finely striate. Origin of dorsal nearer 

 adipose fin than snout by I width of interorbital area ; anterior rays 

 of dorsal coterminous with posterior when depressed, the last rays not 

 filamentous; the free edge of the fin little concave; dorsal fin higher 

 than long by nearly an eye's diameter, its length 2i in head ; tip of veu- 

 trals reaching halfway to vent (farther in young); their length l^-l* 

 in head ; pectorals extending to near middle of ventrals, If-lf in head ; 

 lobes of caudal equal. Lateral line with ablunt keel. Color dark above ; 

 8 to 10 dusky greenish oblong spots along lateral line, between which 

 and below lateral line are traces of smaller spots ; a dusky shade over 

 opercle ; skin lining opercle and shoulder girdle dark, the black markings 

 surrounded by yellow; adipose fin dark, edged with pale; caudal not 

 barred, inner rays dusky ; pectorals and dorsal somewhat dusky ; other 



