736 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
length to base of caudal. Body and head stouter, the plates rougher; 
scales somewhat larger, iu about 55 series. Atlantic coast; common 
southward. 
(? TrUjla evolans L. Syst. Nat. ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 374.) 
Subsp. liucatiis (Mitch.) J. & G. 
Olive brown above, mottled and spotted with blackish; whitish be- 
low; a narrow dark streak along the lateral line, with a broader one 
below it, which terminates behind in a series of spots and blotches; 
lower jaw and branchiostegal membranes sometimes bright orange-yel- 
low; pectorals blackish, edged with olivaceous and orange, with numer- 
ous transverse dark lines; membrane of spinous dorsal with a black 
blotch between third and sixth spines; soft dorsal plain or with 2 black 
blotches at base; ventrals and anal orange; pectoral api^endages slen- 
der, dusky. Gill-rakers rather long and slender, 15 below angle; band 
of palatine teeth wide, shorter than eye; spines on head moderate iu 
size, compressed, the one at upper posterior angle of orbit little devel- 
oped; membranous edge of opercle scaly; ventral reaching to front of 
anal; pectoral reaching to past middle of soft dorsal and anal, from IJ 
to 2^ in length. Head 2| in length ; depth 4A Eye 2J iu snout. D. 
X-12; A. 11; Lat. 1. about 60. Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras; common 
northward. Perhaps a distinct species, but seeming to vary into the 
preceding. 
{Trigla Uiieata Mitcliill, Tr.ans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. i, 430, 1815: P)'ionotus lineatus 
Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass.: Prionotus lineatus GUnther, ii, 192: Prionotus strigatus Cuv. 
& Val. iv, 86.) 
1127. P. stephaaoplirys Lockington. 
Pale olivmceous, abruptly white at level of pectorals; back and sides 
with a few scattered dark spots; branchiostegals mostly saffron-yellow; 
spinous dorsal dusky, with a diffuse dark blotch between fourth and 
fifth spines, near edge of membrane; second dorsal spotted; caudal 
with dark blotches ; iiectorals dark, with large round black spots. 
Body rather stout; head large, compressed, broad, and very nearly 
plane above; the interorbital region not concave; no transverse fur- 
row behind orbits; orbital rim with a slightly raised, serrated crest; 
snout very short, two-fifths length of head; mouth large, the broad 
maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit; bands of palatine teeth very 
narrow; gill-rakers long and slender; head less rough than usual, the 
bones little striate; occipital processes not reaching first dorsal spine; 
preorbital little projecting; preopercle with a strong smooth spine. 
