88. SPARID^ LUTJANUS. 
547 
preoperculum pectinate behind 5 mouth rather small, very oblique ; chin 
much projecting, a pore on each side of it at the symphysis ; teeth very 
small, recurved, in narrow bands in each jaw; vomer with a rhomboid 
patch of very minute teeth ; palatines nearly toothless ; tongue slightly 
rough; branchiostegals 7; pseudobranchije jmesent; scales small, firm, 
ctenoid ; lateral line continuous ; dorsal fins separate or connected by 
a low membrane; the first received into a groove, and composed of 
about 10 slender but rigid spines ; second dorsal low ; anal fins with 3 
graduated spines and 10 to 20 rays ; caudal fin emarginate, with rounded 
lobes; ventrals with a pointed axillary scale. Pacific Ocean, (cevo?, 
strange; fish.) 
a. Anal fin not elongate. 
S60. X. calBfol’nieiisis Steindachner. 
Silvery, with continuous dusky stripes along the rows of scales on the 
upper half of the body, 3 above the lateral line, 4 or 5 below. Body 
oblong, not elevated nor much compressed ; mouth moderate, terminal, 
very oblique, the lower jaw strongly protruding ; premaxillary in front 
above the middle of the large eye; maxillary not very broad, reaching 
opposite front of pui)il ; eye 3J in head, longer than snout. Teeth in 
jaws villiform, in a very narrow band; on the vomer scarcely appreciable; 
edge of jireopercle finely serrate ; no opercular spine ; ventrals with a 
large accessory scale ; gill-rakers very long and slender; pseudobranchiic 
large ; scales small, firm, quite rough, covering the top of the head, 
cheeks, and most of the preorbital, which is rather narrow ; soft parts 
of vertical fins well scaled ; spinous dorsal depressible in a groove, the 
spines stiff; the two dorsals almost separate; second spine highest, the 
others regularly shorter ; soft dorsal low; caudal forked; second and 
third anal spines high. Pectoral falcate, f length of head, reaching be- 
yond the tips of the rather short ventrals. Head 3J ; depth 34. D. IX- 
I, 12 ; A. Ill, 10 ; Lat. 1. 52. Pacific coast, from San Diego southward. 
Here described from specimens collected by Dr. Streets at Cerros Island. 
(Steindacliner, Ichtli. Beitrage, iii, 3, 1875; Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. vii, 49.) 
282.— L.UTJAXUS Bloch & Schneider. 
Snappers. 
(Mesoprion CuYiev: Diacope Cnviev : Genyoroge Cantor.) 
(Bloch & Schneider, Systema Ichthyol. 1801, 324 : type Lutjanus hitjamts Bl. & Schn, ) 
Body oblong, compressed, the back somewhat elevated ; head long ; 
mouth large, the jaws with bands of villiform teeth, besides which arc 
