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similar, but the inner ones larger than in npper jaw: eye very large, its 

 diameter little less than half length of head ; preorbital narrow, strongly 

 serrate; preopercle serrate, the serr;e of the lower margin largest; no 

 spines at its angle ; subopercle and opercle serrate on their lower mar- 

 gins ; highest dorsal spines 1| in head; anal spines graduated, the third 

 spine 2.t in head; ventrals scarcely reaching anal; pectorals 1| in head; 

 scales all extremely rough, very strongly ctenoid ; lateral lino ascending 

 to below fifth dorsal spine, then descending to caudal peduncle, then 

 median to tail. Reddish, overlaid with plumbeous above; bright red 

 or crimson in life ; all the fins except the pectorals edged with black ; 

 otherwise entirely plain (in spirits). West Indies, in rather deep 

 water, north to Pensacola and Charleston ; rare ; the very young stray- 

 ing in the Gulf Stream to Rhode Island. Here described from a speci- 

 men 11 inches long, the largest yet seen, taken at Charleston by Charles 

 C. Leslie. Very close to the Japanese species, PseudopriacanthuH ni2)}wnius, 

 (Cuvier & Valenciennes), the scales a little larger, (altus, high.) 



PriacantJms nUns, Gn,L, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18G2, 132 (very young specimen), Narragan- 



sett Bay; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 545. 

 Pse»d.y)n(imH(/;HS ai/H-v, Jordan & EiGENJiANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, 209; Moubison, 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1889, 1G3; Boulengeb, Cat., i, 359. 



