550 COXTRICUTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
oblong-elliptical, moderately compressed, not elevated. Mouth mod- 
erate, without distinct canines. Tongue with a large oval patch of 
teeth, besides which are 5 or G smaller patches. Nostrils round, near 
together. Preoimrcle finely serrate, its notch obsolete. Gill-rakers 
very long and slender. Dorsal spines rather slender; second anal spine 
a little longer than the third; caudal fin lunate, its lobes not attenuate. 
Dead 3^; depth 3. D. XII, 11; A. Ill, 8; Lat. 1. 54. L. 1 foot. West 
Indies, north to South Carolina and Florida. 
(Centropristes anroruhens Cuv. & Val. iii, 45: Mesoprion anroruhens Gunther, i, 207: 
Centropristes anroruhens Storer, . Mem. Am. Ac.ad. Arts & Sci. 1840, 288: Ithomboplites 
anroruhens Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 130.) 
2§3.— POinADASYS Lacdpede. 
{Pristipoma Cuvier.) 
(Lacdpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 515, 1802: type Scicena argentea Forsk.) 
Body oblong or ovate, somewhat compressed, the back elevated or 
not; mouth small, terminal, low; the maxillary usually not extending 
to opposite the eye, its tip not reaching the posterior edge of the broad 
])reorbital; premaxillaries very protractile; teeth on jaws only, in villi- 
form bands, the outer series usually more or less enlarged; a central 
groove behind the syrniihysis of the lower jaw; brauchiostegals 7; 
cheeks and oiiercles scaly; preopercle rather finely and evenly serrate; 
scales moderate, few, if any, on the dorsal and anal fins; dorsal spines 
mostly 12, strong; gill-rakers feeble ; caudal forked. Species numerous 
in all warm seas; the range of variation in form is very great in this 
genus, (voi/^a, ojierculum; (Jau-uc, rough.) 
a. Outer teeth considerably enlarged, canine.like. (Conodon* C. & V.) 
86-5. P. BSotsiSis (L.) J. & G. 
Body with 8 yellowish brown cross-bands ; dorsal spines silvery. 
Form rather slender; the head conic, somewhat pointed, the lower jaw 
l)rojecting; mouth moderate, low, oblique; a series of short, stout canines 
outside the usual baud of villiform teeth ; itreopercle strongly serrate, 
with two spinous teeth at the angle, the teeth behind directed upward; 
chin with a central groove;* pectorals narrow, not reaching as far as tips 
of ventrals, about to vent; second anal spine very long and strong, 
higher than the soft rays; caudal almost truncate. Air-bladder with 
Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 156: type Conodon antillanus C. & V. = 
Scicena 2 )lumieri Uloch. cone ; dd Co?', tooth.) 
