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Tampa, nearly all of them being from the spew lugs of the speckled Hind, 

 Epinephelus drummond-hayi. (From the Red Snapper or Vivanet, then 

 called LutjaHus rivanus, from the stomach of which this species was 

 first taken.) 



Anlliim rivatiiis, Jordan ife Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 544, Snapper Banks of Pensa- 



cola, (Type, No. 36942. Coll. Silas Stearns); Boulenoeu, Cat., i, 323. 

 I^rotioloyrammiis i'ii-aniis, Jordan & Eigenmann, 1. c, 413, 1890. 



515. PRONOTOGRAMMUS, Gill. 



I'ronologrmnmns, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat Sci. Phila., 1863, 81 (miiUi/uscialus). 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with rather large, ctenoid scales ; 

 lateral line running very high, close to the dorsal fin; top of head and 

 maxillary naked ; mouth short, oblique, the lower jaw projecting ; maxil- 

 lary very broad, without supplemental bone ; canine teeth usually present 

 both in front and on sides of jaws; no movable teeth; tongue toothless; 

 posterior processes of premaxillaries extending to between the frontals, 

 which have a deep fossa in front; supraoccipital crest very high, not 

 encroaching on the short, convex, smooth area on top of head, which is 

 more or less depressed ; parietal crest feeble ; a transverse ridge behind 

 frontals between posterior borders of orbits and before supraoccipital 

 crest. Gill rakers very long, slender, and close-set. Preopercle angular, 

 with prominent teeth. Dorsal with 10 spines, some of them filamentous; 

 anal fin short, with 7 or 8 soft rays ; caudal dee^ily forked, its lobes pro- 

 duced; pectorals obtuse, nearly symmetrical, of 17 or 18 rays; ventrals 

 long, inserted before axil of pectoral. Color red. Beautifully colored 

 American fishes, closely allied to the European genus JvthUis, but differ- 

 ing in the naked top of head and maxillary, and in the form of the body. 

 (tt/jo, before; vcjtoc, back; ypafi/x//, line; m allusion to the upward curve 

 of the lateral line.) 



a. Second anal spine shorter than third; body elongate, the head thick, the lower outline 



nearly straight; tip of lower jaw fitting into a notch of upper, not entering profile; 



angle of preopercle slightly projecting, its serra' coarser; dorsal eniargiuate, the spines 



slender and pungent, the sixth longest, S% in head, IJ^ times tenth; each spine with a 



short filament near its tip, as usual in this genus; caudal forked, the middle rays % the 



outer, which are not produced; scales large, ctenoid, extending forward from occiput 



on top of liead to middle of orbit; scales on cheek in 6 rows. Rose red, silvery below, 



the fins liglit yellow; a dark Epot above the middle of each eye and 2 V'Sliaped olive 



marks behind head, the ape.\ of the one at the nape, the other at front of dorsal. 



Scales 23^-38. eos, 1011. 



aa. Second anal spine longer than third; dorsal spines rapidly increasing to the fourth, which 



is about 7 in length of body, thence decreasing to the last. Color reddish, the young 



with numerous dark rufous bands, descending nearly to tlie middle. Scales 2-45-12. 



(Adult unknown.) multifasciatus, 1612. 



1611. PRONOTOGRAMMUS EOS, Gilbert 



Head 2^ to 21 ; depth 2,^ to 3; eye very large, 3, much longer than snout. 

 D. X, 15; A. 111,8; scales 2i-38-x. Body elongate, tapering regularly 

 backward from shoulder, the lower outline nearly straight; head thick; 

 mouth terminal, oblicjue, the mandible laterally included, its tip fitting 

 into an emargination of premaxillaries, not entering profile. Maxillary 



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