564 COXTRIBUTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
Depth 3 ill total. Head 3^. D. VI-I, 9; A. II, 8 5 scales 3-2o-9. 
( Vaillant th Bocourt.) 'West Indies ; accidental at K'ewport. 
(Casteluau, Auim. Nouv. Rares Am4r. du Sud, Poiss. 3; Vaillaut & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 
an Mex. 41 : Ajwgonichthys americanus Guutber, i, 247.) 
aa. Edge of preopercle entire ; scales eomparatively small. (Glosaamia* Gill.) 
§90. A. |>aDBdi«Mis Goode & Bean. 
Color nearly plain reddish, the body and tins everywhere speckled 
with tine dots. Body oblong, not elevated nor greatly compressed. 
Eye very large, forming nearly half the length of the side of the head, 
much greater than the interorbital space ; maxillary extending to oppo- 
site pupil preopercle entire. Gill-rakers very long and slender. Month 
oblique, but not nearly vertical, the lower jaw projecting. Fins low; 
caudal well forked. Head 4 ; depth 4. D. VII-I, 9 ; A. II, 9 ; scales 
small, cycloid, 3-45-8. Deep water, off Chesapeake Ba}". 
(Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, ICO.) 
Family XC. — MULLID^. 
{The Surmullets.) 
Body elongate, slightly compressed, covered with large ctenoid scales; 
lateral line continnons ; large scales on the head ; upper protile of the 
head more or less parabolic. Month small ; teeth iire.sent in one jaw at 
least, and sometimes in both, or on the vomer or palatines. Premaxil- 
laries protractile; maxillaries without supplemental bone, partly hidden 
b^^ the broad preorbital. Eye moderate, placed high ; branchiostegals 
4; 2 long barbels at the throat, attached just behind the symphysis 
of the lower jaw. Dorsal tins 2, remote from each other, the first of sev- 
eral high spines, which are depressible in a groove; anal similar to the 
soft dorsal, with 1 or 2 small spines ; ventrals thoracic, I, 5. Genera 5 ; 
species 35, in all tropical seas, some species straying northward. 
(MuUidce Gunther, i, 397-411.) 
* Teeth in lower jaw, and on vomer and palatines ; none in the upper jaw.MULLUS, 292. 
** Teeth in both jaws ; none on vomer or palatines Upeneus, 293. 
292.— MULLrS Linnceus. 
Surmullets. 
(Linnsens, Syst. Naturae: type Mullus barhatus L.) 
Teeth in the lower jaw and on the vomer and iialatines; none in the 
upper jaw; dorsal spines 7 ; anal spines very small. Otherwise as in 
* Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18S3, 82 : type Apogon aprion Rich. (^y7.uaaa, 
tongue; ajmcc, Amia, a name applied by Gronow to Apogon.') 
