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front ; tongue with two rough plates ; soft dorsal as long as the part of 
the spinous behind fifth spine ; caudal little forked. Temporal band of 
scales broad ; scales above lateral line forming oblique series not par- 
allel with the back. Vomerine teeth prolonged backward in a long 
band on the median line. D. X, 14; A. Ill, 8; 65 scales in a series 
above lateral line, 53 below. Gulf of Mexico; brought to the Havana 
markets from the Bay of Campeachy and from Key West. {Poey.) 
{Mesoprion campechanus Poey, Meiiiorias Cuba ii, 149, 1890, and in Synops. Pise. 
Cubens, 294: Mesoprion eampechlanus Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1870, 5.) 
Page 549. To the account of Lutjanus stearnsi add : Scales above lat- 
eral line forming oblique series, which are not parallel throughout with 
the lateral line. Teeth on vomer in an anchor-shaped patch, prolonged 
backward on the median line ; outer pair of canines above, very large ; 
teeth of lower jaw moderate; teeth on tongue in a single patch; max- 
illary 2| in head, reaching front of pupil; xiosterior nostril ovate; pec- 
toral in head; second and third anal spines subequal. 
Page 549. After Luijanm stearnsi add : 
864 (h). 1,. syiaag-ris (L.) Poey. 
Olivaceous above, silvery on sides and below; flushed with reddish 
above ; back and sides with wide, continuous stripes of golden yellow, 
usually wider than a series of scales ; a black blotch below soft dorsal ; 
sides of head with yellow stripes usually continuous with those on 
sides; two yellow striiies from eye to snout; caudal red; other fins yel- 
lowish; dorsal with two reddish longitudinal bands; ventrals margined 
wdth white ; these colors fading in alcohol. Body rather deep and com- 
pressed; anterior profile steep and nearly straight; lower jaw project- 
ing; maxillary reaching to below front of eye. Teeth rather small, 
subequal, the canines little developed ; teeth on vomer in a /j\-shaped 
patch, slightly i)rolonged backward on the median line. Scales small, 
smoothish; those above lateral line arranged in series not parallel 
with the lateral line. Preopercle with a shallow notch. Dorsal spines 
slender; anal spines graduated ; anal fin rather high; caudal moder- 
ately forked. Pectorals long, in head, almost reaching anal. Gill- 
rakers rather long and strong. Head 2| ; depth 2g-. D. X, 12 ; A. Ill, 
7; scales 6-50-17. L. 12 inches. West Indies; north to Key West, 
Florida. 
{Spams synarjris L. Syst. Nat.: Spams vcrmicularis Blocb & Schneider, 1801, 275: 
Mesoprion uninotatus Cnv. & Val. ii, 479: Mesoprion uninotatns Giiutber, i, 202: Meso- 
prion uninotatus Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cnbens, 294.) 
