Jordan and Evertnann. — Fishes of North America. 1219 



gray, mottled ; soft dorsal similarly and more distinctly marked; pec- 

 torals, anal, and caudal (grayish, with sharply defined narrow blackish 

 bars, somewhat undulating ; ventrals faintly barred, mostly black. 

 South Atlantic coasts of the United States, iu rather deep water; not 

 common ; recorded from Beaufort, Charleston, Pensacola Snapper Banks, 

 and Big Gasparilla; a small and very pretty species. (Here described 

 from a specimen. No. 30859, U. S. Nat. Mus., 3 inches long, taken by Jor- 

 dan & Stearns from the Snapper Banks, off Pensacola. {siibUgarius, wear- 

 ing a truss, in allusion to the white cross band.) 



Centroprisds siihligarms, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 120, Pensacola. 



Serranus subWjariiis, Goodf, & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 238; .Jordan ic Gilbert, Pioc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 274, 1882; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 535, 1883; Jordan, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1884, 39; Joedan & Eigenmann, I. c, 405, 1890. 



1606. DIJLES DISPILURUS (GUnther). 



Head 21 ; depth 2|. D. X,12; A. Ill, 7; scales 5-45-14. Preoperculum 

 rounded, finely serrated behind, entire below, without projecting angle. 

 Eye of moderate size, t, length of head. Diameter of eye much more than 

 width of the interorbital space, but somewhat less than the extent of 

 the snout, contained 4A times in the length of the head. Opercles scaly ; 

 the scales on the preoperculum in 7 or 8 series, much smaller than those on 

 the operculum and rest of the body. Cleft of the mouth oblique, the 

 upper maxillary reaching to the vertical from the center of the eye ; 

 preorbital somewhat wider than the maxillary. Preoperculum rounded, 

 finely serrated behind, entire below; suboperculum and interoperculinn 

 entire. Operculum with 3 flat short points, the upper and lower of which 

 are concealed by the scales, the middle one being the longest and sharp- 

 est. Dorsal fin commencing just above the extremity of the operculum; 

 its spinous portion scarcely lower, but longer than the soft; the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth spines are the longest, more than i the length of the head ; 

 the first spine is very short, half as long as the diameter of the eye ; soft 

 dorsal rounded ; the anterior and middle rays the longest, the sixth being 

 not quite twice as long as the last spine ; caudal fin truncated, slightly 

 rounded at the angles, about I of the total length; anal with the soft 

 portion narrow and deeper than the dorsal fin; second anal spine strong 

 and long, ? the length of the head; third anal spine mucii longer than 

 the first; pectoral long, rounded, reaching to above vent, * of the length 

 of the head; ventrals not reaching to vent. Teeth villiform ; several 

 larger teeth in the outer series of each jaw ; vomerine and palatine 

 teeth in narrow bands ; tongue toothless. Brownish olive, with indistinct 

 darker cross bands extending on the dorsal fin ; a broad white cross band 

 on the belly, before the vent, extending upward to the level of the pec- 

 toral fin ; a small deep-black spot behind the top of the last dorsal spine, 

 on the middle of the first two dorsal rays; several other irregular more or 

 less distinct spots on the dorsal fin corresponding to the cross bands on 

 the body ; the soft vertical fins with transverse series of small brown 

 spots ; a small black round spot above and below on the root of the caudal 



