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versicolor. Profile steep, with a strong depression above eye; tlie 
snont rather pointed; occipital region carinate. Front teeth small, in 
a close-set band, the outer series a little enlarged, compressed and lance- 
olate, much as in versicolor. Molars in two rows in each jaw. Gill- 
rakers very short. A strong procumbent spine before dorsal; first and 
second dorsal spines very short ; third dorsal spine more or less fila- 
mentous, reaching i)ast middle of soft dorsal; jiectoral a little longer 
than head, reaching soft rays of anal. Scaly part of cheek as deep as 
long (in A. versicolor considerably longer than deep). Second inter- 
spinal of anal quill-shaped as in Calamus. Head 3f; depth 2. B. 
XII, 12; A. Ill, 12 ; scales about 7-48-14. West coast of Florida, in 
rather deep water. Distinguished from A. versicolor by the deeper 
cheek and preorbital, the different form of the body, and the difiference 
in the dorsal spines. 
(Stenotomus cajjrinvs Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1882.) 
On page 5G0, after Diplodus cauclimacula, add : 
8§5 (6). 1®. ca.ii’i8>aciis (Poey) J. & G. — Sargo. 
Steel-brown, with golden-yellow longitudinal stripes, whieh scarcely 
'extend on the head, 3 above, 5 or (3 below the lateral line ; a black spot 
at the shoulder; dorsal yellowish, with a ftiint dusky median stripe; 
ventrals orange in the females, yellowish and j)unctate in the males; 
anal similarly colored. Body deep; snout obtuse; maxillary reaching 
beyond posterior nostril; molars in two rows; incisors broad, entire ; 
second anal spine much longer and larger than third; pectoral long and 
])ointed; caudal forked. Head 44 (in total); dei)th 2|. D. XHI, 11 ; 
-A. Ill, 10. West Indies, north to Key West {Poeij in lit.). 
(Sargus carihn’iis Poey, Meniorias, ii, 18G0, 197, aud in Synoi)s. Pise. Cnbeus. 309.) 
Page 563. After Apogon americanns add: 
88f> (&). A. macaaHaSnas (Poey) J. & G. 
Uniform bright scarlet ; a round black spot below second dorsal and 
another on side of caudal peduncle above median line. Maxillary 2 in 
iiead, reaching beyond pupil ; eye very large, 3 in head; preopercle dis- 
tinctly serrulate ; pectoral 1^ in head, a little shorter than caudal. Head 
21 ; depth 2i. D. VI-I, 7 ; A. II, 8 ; scales 2i-26-7. L. 3 inches. West 
Florida to Cuba. 
{Monoprion macnlatus Poey, Mem. Cuba ii, 123, I860: Amia macula fa Voey. Syn. Pise. 
Cub. 304, 1868; Jor. & Gilb.' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 279.; 
It is doubtful whether Apogon americanus has ever been really taken 
