DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTKllilTION. 237 



of the eye. The first si)iue is less than ouehalf as long as the seeond, which is about two- 

 thirds as long as the eye. The anal spines are slender. The longest anal ray ecpials tlie 

 postorbital part of the head. The pectoral reaches to below the origin of the soft dorsid; 

 its length equals that of the head without the snout. Tlie ventral begins slightly in ad- 

 vance of the origin of the pectoral and it is nearly as long as the pectoral, its length one- 

 quarter of the total without caudal. 



Eadial formula: 1). ix, i, !); A. IV, 7; V. i, 5; P. i, 15. Scales 2/29/7. 



The colors have fiided ; traces of purplish brown on the upper parts and the head; 

 spinous dorsal with a dark triangular blotch on its upper portion extending front tlic se(!ond 

 to the sixth spine, involving less than half the height of tlie membrane. 



Specimens were obtained by the Albatross from station 2.'5U, in 32° 43' N. lat., 71° 5V 

 W. Ion. (off South Carolina), at a deptli of 151) fatlioms; fi'om station 2.j07, in 28'^ 42' N. 

 jat., 86° .'lO' W. Ion. (between the Delta of the Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a 

 depth of 280 fathoms; from station 2401, in 28° 38' 30" N. lat., 85° 52' 30" W. Ion. (be- 

 tween the Delta of the Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a depth of 112 fathoms; 

 from station 2417, in 33° 18' 30" N. lat., 77° 07' W. Ion. (off Cape Fear), at a depth of 05 

 fathoms; fi-om station 2418, in 33'^ 20' N. lat., 77° 05' W. Ion., at a depth of 90 fathoms; 

 from station 2425, in 30^ 20' 24" N. lat., 74o 4(3' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 119 fatlioms; 

 and from station 242G, in 30° 01' 30" N. lat., 74° 47' 30" W. Ion. (off North Carohna), in 93 

 fathoms. 



Family SERRANID.^^. 



Serranidce. KichaEDSON, Ichth. Erebus aud Terror, 1848, iv (in itart). — Gill, Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872 (in 

 part.); Century Dictionary, 5573. — .Jc)hi>an & Gilbkut, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 526. — Jordan ami 

 EiGENMANN, Bull. U. S. F. C, vm, 1888, o2i», 433. 



Serraniiui, tU'NTUER, Cat. Fish. Brit. J[iis.,i, 57, 81-212. 



Percoidea with the body oblong, (compressed, and covered with scales; the head com- 

 pressed, and the cranium normal. The premasillaries not retractile behind, under the sub- 

 orbitals. The spinous part of the dorsal tin about as long as the soft, or longer, and with 

 3 anal spines developed. (GiU.) 



CENTROPRISTIS, Cuvier. 



Gentropristes, Cuvier, Eegue Animal, ed. 2, 1820. 



CentropHsUs, Cuviek and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 1829, 5fi.— Jordan and Eiuenmann, Bull. U. 



S. Fish Com., viii, 1888 (1890), 390. 

 Trilobunis, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast U. S., 18G1, 30. 



Serranoid fishes, with comparatively elongate body. No supplemental bone to tlie max- 

 illary. Teeth small, in broad bands. Top of head naked, sni)raoccipital crest prominent, 

 encroaching somewhat on the frontal region. No hooked spinulcs on the lower limb of the 

 preoperculum. Scales large. Dorsal spines slender, the third a little elevated; some of 

 them with dermal appendages or filaments. Caudal tin not lunate, ending in 3 bands, the 

 middle rays extending beyond the outer ones. 



Two species of this genus have been found in deep water — one, Ceiitropristis piruro- 

 spilm Giinther*, from the sea between Australia and New Guinea, near the Ki Islands, at a 

 depth of 140 fathoms; and Centroprisfis investi(jatoris, Alcock,t from off" the Madras coast, 

 in 100 fathoms. 



ANTHIAS, Schneider. 



Anihias, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1792.— Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 219.— GfNTiiER, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 88.— Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Amer., 83. 

 Aylopon, Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 1810, 52. 



Serranoids with strongly compressed body, closely resembling Sermnus, but having the 

 lateral line placed very high and concurrent with the back, becouung abruptly straight and 



*Cliallenger Report, I (Part vi), 37, pi. xvi, tig. T>. 

 tAuu. aud Mag. Nat. Hist, (vi), September, 1890, 199. 



