542 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY — IV. 
We may notice the eye tfell advanced. It further differs in the den- 
tition and by the extreme division of its pyloric appendages. The teeth 
are in a large band, a little narrower in the lower jaw ; the external 
margin shows a row of teeth a little stronger, especially the two first, 
but there are no differentiated canines; the extreme inner series in front 
has some stronger teeth. The palatine and vomerine teeth are in finer 
bands. The coeca and their divisions are innumerable.” {Poey.) Else- 
where the cranium is described as short, broad, and fiat, the occipital 
crest very low. Size enormous, as in the genus Stereolepis. This genus 
and Trisotropis should probably be considered as sections of Epineplie- 
lus. (-/>«, before; p.r/.po'^, small; eye; in allusion to the shortness of 
the anterior part of the cranium, due to the advancement of the orbit.; 
853. P. ^tnasa roey.—Gvasa. 
Yellowish olivaceous, with numerous brown spots. Body more com- 
pressed above than below. Mouth large, maxillary reaching beyond 
the orbit ; preopercle feebly serrated ; opercle with 3 flat points ; fins 
all very low, caudal rounded. Head 3^; depth 4. D. XI, 16; A. Ill, 
8. [Poey.) West Indies, north to Florida; reaches a weight of 400 or 
500 pounds. 
(Serranus guasa Poey, Mem. ii, 141, 1858.) 
278.— DUI.es Cuvier. 
(Cuvier, Regne Auim. eel. 2d, ii, 1829: type Dules auriga C. & V.) 
Body oblong, ovate, compressed and elevated, covered with rather 
large scales. Mouth large, the lower jaw projecting ; the maxillary 
reaching to opposite the middle of the eye. Teeth moderate, the ante- 
rior in the upper jaw enlarged, wide-set, but hardly forming canines. 
Preopercle sharply serrate; opercle with 2 strong spines. Dorsal 
with 10 si)ines, anal with 3; the third dorsal spine filamentous, the 
second anal spine longest. Branchiostegals G. Fishes of the warm 
seas, sometimes entering rivers. a slave; the fish being under 
the lash of the long tlorsal spine.) 
851. D. aMl’Bga, Cuv. & Val. — Charioteer; Coachman. 
Yellowish gray, with two or three darker cross-bands and faint dark 
longitudinal streaks. Opercle with two or three strong spines, the upper 
one the largest ; pectoral and ventral fins large ; third dorsal sinne fila- 
mentous, reaching the middle of the caudal ; caudal truncate. D. X, 
13; A. Ill, 7 ; Lat. 1. 46. Yert. 10 -f 14. Tropical parts of the Atlantic; 
said to have been taken on our coast. 
(Cuv. & Val. iii, 112; Giinther, i, 206.) 
