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Caudal forked. Pectoral not quite to anal, long as head. Ventral 

 spine, 1-| of fin, latter H in pectoral. Color in alcohol uniform 

 bro•w^lisll, sides and below with traces of silvery white. Dorsal 

 tinted, with dull brown. Pectoral axil and base with large dusky- 

 brown blotch. Two examples, 189 to 241 mm. 



PAGRUS PAGRIIS (Linnaeus), 



Head, 3^; depth, 2|; D. XII, 10, i; A. Ill, 8, i; scales, 53 in lateral 

 line to caudal base and 9 more on latter; 7 scales above lateral 

 line, 15 below; snout, 2^ in head; eye, 3f ; maxillary, 2|; interor- 

 bital, 3\. Body oblong, well compressed, upper profile evenly 

 convex from snout tip to soft dorsal. Head well compressed, sides 

 flattened. Snout, width IJ its length. Eye large, midway in head 

 length. Maxillary about to eye. Molar teeth biserial. Pair of 

 small canines in front of each jaw behind which patch of villiform 

 teeth. Front nostril about half an eye-diameter before eye. Inter- 

 orbital convex. Preorbital width equals eye. Rakers, 8 + 9, short 

 stumps about one quarter of filaments, latter 1§ in eye. Pseudo- 

 branchiae large as gill-filaments. Scales narrowly imbricated, about 

 11 basal striae on largest. Cheek with seven rows of scales. Supra- 

 scapula edge nearly entire. Scales very small on top of head, below 

 suprascapula, on pectoral and caudal bases, and along soft dorsal 

 and anal bases. Tubes in lateral line simple, largely concurrent 

 with dorsal profile and little high along caudal peduncle side. Dorsal 

 spines rather slender. Soft dorsal inserted about midway between 

 spinous dorsal origin and caudal base, fin low. Anal similar, second 

 and third spines subequally longest. Caudal deeply forked. Pec- 

 toral little longer than head, reaches second anal spine base. Ventral 

 spine I of fin, fin If in pectoral. Color in alcohol, dull uniform 

 brownish generally, with traces of bright silvery-white on sides and 

 below. Length, 241 mm. 



DIPLODUS SARGUS (Linnaeus). 



Head, 3 to 3^; depth, 1| to 2i; D. XII, 13,i, or 14, i; A. Ill, 13 

 I, or 14, i; scales 60 to 65 in lateral line to caudal base, and 6 to 8 

 more on latter; 8 or 9 scales above and 16 to 18 below lateral line; 

 snout, 2f to 3 in head; eye, 2i to 4f; maxillary, 3; interorbital, 2| 

 to 3i; rakers, 7 or 8+9 or 10. Three examples, 70 to 260 mm. 



One of the above from Loando, Angola (p. 284). It has three rows 

 of molars above and two below and slightly larger and longer anal 

 spines than the largest example, from the Azores. In the last 

 axilla and hind edge of opercle flap dusky and preorbital, about 

 seven-eighths of eye. In young axiUa and opercle flap pale, pre- 

 orbital but slightly over half of eye, and molars in three rows above 

 and two below. Young in alcohol with back olive, grayish where 

 scales have fallen, with six vertical lines or narrow bands of deeper 



