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with areas of light yellow on sides of back ; one before dorsal, a large one and 



a small one below spinous doreal ; a large one below last rays of soft dorsal ; 

 one on back of tail; top of head with 2 pale cross shades, one before, one 

 behind eyes; lower fins light orange; caudal rod, with 2 conspicuous longi- 

 tudinal strijies of blackish red; dorsal red-shaded, a maroon blotch on each 

 l>art of it, extending upward from a similar blotch on the back. 



TABACARll'S, 1601. 



tig. Back without conspicuous blotches of yellowish white. 



//. Coloration nearly uniform; body elongate; snout short and thick; caudal 

 slightly lunate. Color brownish yellow on back, orauge on sides, and 

 brighteror red on belly; uospotsnor bands; upper part of head bluish, 

 the fins gray; caudal bordered above and below with brown. 



FLAVESCENS, 1602. 



ee. Lower jaw very strongly projecting; body elongate, moderately compressed; scales small, 

 about 70; snout sharp, much longer than the large eye; preopercle finely denticu- 

 lated; top of head with vertex naked; caudal deeply forked; skull depressed, with a 

 single crest; dorsixl spines moderate, the third highest. 

 «". Color clear brown with larger darker spots or bars on the sides; fins pale, more or 

 less tinged with orauge. luciopercaxi's, 1G03. 



ii. Color red, with numerous roundish inky -black spots behind, a larire quadrate dark 

 blotch on front of soft dorsal; lower half of caudal black; a large, oblong silver- 

 white blotch from before vent, extending upward and backward. 



STILBOSTIGMA, 1604. 



Subgenus PRIONODES. 



1595. PRIOXODES IIQUIDEXS (Gilbert). 



Head 2*^; depth 3| : eye large, as long as snout, 4i in head. D. IX, I, 

 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 4A-48-13, 5 series on cheeks parallel with posterior 

 margin of orbit. Body slender, the head very long, the caudal peduncle 

 narrow. Tip of lower jaw but little projecting : mouth large, the max- 

 illary reaching vertical from posterior margin of pupil, 2^ in head. Upper 

 jaw with teeth laterally in a single series, becoming double anteriorly ; 

 the outer teeth are larger and spaced but not canine-like ; the inner are 

 close-set, small, directed inward; the median pair of teeth of inner series 

 are larger than the others and directed backward. Teeth of lower jaw 

 in a single series forming a very narrow patch at symphysis. Teeth in a 

 narrow patch on vomer, the posterior enlarged, almost canine-like, directed 

 backward; on palatines in an irregular double series. Interorbital space 

 tlat, its width f orbit. Preorbital narrow, \ orbit. Angle of preopercle 

 slightly projecting, the vertical margin gently concave; teeth minute 

 and equal on both limbs and at angle. Opercle greatly produced back- 

 ward, reaching much beyond inner edge of shoulder girdle, the margin 

 of preopercle equidistant between front of eye and end of opercular dap. 

 Opercle with a single spine, the lower not developed. No spine on shoulder. 

 Gill rakers long and slender, x -f 16, the longest i the diameter of the 

 large eye. Dorsal with weak, flexible, low spines, which increase in 

 length to the fourth (t length of head), then decrease to the ninth, which 

 is less than \ the fourth, the tenth again longer ; dorsal rays slender, little 

 forked, the longest less than highest spine. Caudal deeply lunate; anal 

 short, with slender rays, the margin not rounded, the anterior rays long- 

 est, the posterior but little shortened ; anal spines slender, graduated, the 



