1226 Bulletin 4"/, Untied Stales National Museum. 



1612. PRONOTOGRAMMUS* MCLTIFASCIATCS, Gill. 



This species is thus described by Dr. Gill: " D. X, 15; A. Ill, 7; P. I, 

 14 ; V. I, 5 ; C. 10, 1, 8, 7, 1, 9 ; scales 3-31 + 2 + 12 = 45-17. The great- 

 est height equals or slightly exceeds a quarter of the leugth from the 

 suout to the end of the median caudal rays. The head equals a third of 

 that length and contains the diameter of the eye — which is oval — 3 times. 

 The snout is less than half the diameter of the eye. The spines of the 

 dorsal rapidly increase to the fourth, which nearly equals a seventh of the 

 length, and thence decrease to the last, which equals about an eleventh 

 of the same. The longest ray about equals the longest spine. The second 

 anal spine is more than twice as long as the first, equals the fourth 

 dorsal one, and is considerably longer than the third anal one. The 

 median caudal rays enter 6f times in the total length, while the longest 

 exceed the greatest height. The pectoral fin commences a little before 

 the end of the first third of the length (32) and equals a quarter of that 

 length. The ventral is inserted considerably in advance of the pectoral 

 (28) and is rather shorter than it. The lateral line is deflected on 2 scales. 

 The color is tawny yellow, with numerous (20) rufous bands descending 

 nearly to the middle and rather wider than the tawny intervals. Only 

 one specimen, whose extreme length was little more than 2 inches, was 

 obtained." (Gill.) Cape San Lucas. (niJiW«.5, many ; /ascin^MS, banded.) 

 Pronotogrammusmnltifasciatiif:, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ISG.'i, 81, Cape San Lucas, (Coll. 



John Xantus de Vasey); Jordan & Eioenkann, I c, 413, 1890. 

 Authias muUifascialus, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 360; Jordan, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1885, 377; Boulenger, Cat., i, 324. 



516. ANTHIAS, Bloch. 

 (Barbiers.) 



Anlhias, Bloch, Auslandische Fische, vi, 97, 1792, (anthias). 



Aylopon, Rafinesque, Carattere di Alcuni Nuovi Generi, 52, \S10, (anthias); the generic name 

 Anthias said to be preoccupied. 



Body strongly compressed ; scales moderate or rather large, ciliate, 

 smooth ; lateral line complete, angulated below last rays of dorsal, the 

 tubes straight or with an ascending tubule, and extending along nearly 

 the entire scale ; jaws and front scaly ; mouth large, protractile; maxil- 

 lary exposed, its surface scaly; jaws with villiform teeth intermixed with 

 curved canines ; a small group of teeth on the vomer and a narrow series 

 on each palatine ; tongue smooth or with a few teeth ; head entirely 

 scaled ; preopercle serrated, without antrorse teeth on the lower border ; 



* The following is the original account of the genus Pronotogrammns, Gill, based on the present 

 species: " This genus has the form of Brachiirhiniis. The body is covered by moderate, ctenoid 

 scales. The lateral line runs high on the sides for the greater part (if its length, but is abruptly 

 deflected behind, and thence continued along the middle of the caudal peduncle. The head 

 most resembles that of Brachi/rhinus. The preoperculuni is serrated on its posterior margin and 

 has a strong compressed spine at its angle. The operculum has 3 acute angles, the middle con- 

 tinued from an internal rib. Tlie teeth are like those of Serranus, etc.; 2 large ones exist on 

 each side of the front, in the margin of the upper jaw, and 1 on each side, near the symphysis 

 iu the lower, while there are also 2 on the sides. The vomer and palatine bones have villiform 

 teetn. There are, apparently, only G branchiostegal rays. The dorsal is undulated and has 10 

 spines. The anal has 3 strong spines, the second of wliich is largest. The lobes of the caudal 

 are acute, the pectorals acutely rounded, and the ventrals angulated." — Gill. 



