456 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
Coast of South Carolina; kiiowu only from a mutilated specimeu 4 inches 
lonjj^, evidently the young of some pelagic sj)ecies. 
(Cnv. A Yal. ix, 368; Giiutlier, ii, 411.) 
Family LXXXL— ZENID^. 
iThe Dories.) 
Body short, deep, much compressed and elevated, naked, or covered 
with minute scales, or with boiij^ protuberances. Teeth small, in narrow 
bands or single series, on the jaws and vomer and sometimes on the 
palatines. Mouth rather large, terminal, the upper jaw protractile. 
Eyes lateral. Opercles and other bones about the head often armed 
with spines. Branchiostegals 7 or 8. Gill-membranes little united, free 
from the isthmus. Pseudobrauchise large. Air-bladder large. Gill- 
rakers usually short. Gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Dorsal tin emar- 
ginate, or divided, the anterior i^art with strong spines, the posterior 
l)art longer; anal fin with or without sj^iues ; ventral fins thoracic, their 
rays I, 5 to I, 8 ; caudal fin usually not forked. Lateral line obscure, 
unarmed. Pyloric coeca exceedingly numerous. Vertebrae about 32. 
Cfeuerao; species about 10; fishes of singular appearance, inhabiting 
warm seas. 
{Scomhrida;, groux) Cyltiiia, Giinther, ii, 393-393: Cyttidw Giiutlier, Intr. Study Fish. 
450.) 
a. Scales minute or w.antiug; anal spines very strong ; no XJalatine teeth. {Zeninw.) 
h. Anal sxiines 3 ; bases of both dorsals armed with sx^inous x)lates.ZENOPSis, 237. 
237.— SE'^OPSIS Gill. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1832, 123: tyx)e Zeus nebuJosus Temminck & 
Schlegel, from Jaiian.) 
Body ovate, much compressed, without scales, not warty. Head 
deeper than long, its anterior profile steep. Mouth rather large, upper 
jaw protractile; teeth small, on jaws and vomer, none on the palatines. 
V'arious bones of the head and shoulder girdle armed with spines. 
Series of bony plates along the sides of the belly and the bases of the 
dorsal and aual, each plate armed with a strong spine. Eye large, 
placed high. Gill-rakers short. Dorsal spines very strong, usually 10 
in number. Anal spines 3. Ventral fins long, mostly I, 7. Caudal 
peduncle slender, the fin not forked. Two or three species known, differ- 
ing from Zeus, mainly in the presence of 3 anal spines instead of 4. Pe- 
lagic. ( 7 ^ 07 , Zeus; appearance. Zeus is from Ceuc, Jupiter.) 
