238 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



horizontal below last rays of dorsal. Siioiit blunt; month oblique; maxillary broad and 

 scaly. Fins with a tendency to filamentous production of tlie rays. Caudal forked. [Jot-- 

 dan.) 



This genus has been found in deep water in the Pacific. Anthias megalepis, Giin- 

 ther,* was taken off the Ki Islands, at 140 fathoms, in company with tlie Centroprintis 

 already referred to, and Anthias eos, Gilbert,! taken in the Gulf of California at ll:i fathoms. 



A specimen (Cat. No. 373-lG, U. S. N. M.) obtained by tlie Fish Haicl; has been mis- 

 placed, and cannot now be fully described. The name. Anthias aquilonarishns been pro- 

 posed by us for it. It is allied to Anthias oculatus, O. & V. 



A note indicates that the length of its head was equal to the height of its body, which 

 is contained 2% times in the total length (without caudal)." The diameter of the orbit is con- 

 tained 3^ times in the head. The maxillary bone was naked, rather than scaled as in A. 

 oculatus; and the scales numbered 53 in the lateral line, 7 above and 14 below. The radial 

 formula was D. x, 11; A. in, 8. 



A small specimen, possibly of the same species, was obtained by the Blahc, off Domi- 

 nica, at station cvi, in 524 fixthoms; but since this is less than 2 inches long and the 

 subject of the above note was 9, it is impossible to confirm the identification in the 

 absence of the larger specimen. 



POLYPRION, Cuvier. 



Polyprion, Cuvier, Rfegne Animal, 2nd ed., 1829, ii, 145.— CoviEit and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 

 21. — GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 168.— Jordan and Gilbert. Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 532. — 

 Gill, Century Dictionary, 4609. 



Sectoria, Castelnau, Proc. Zoiil. Soc, Victoria, II, 1873, 151. 



Serranoids having body oval, compressed, covered with small, ctenoid scales; head 

 large, rough, with numerous crests and furrows: operculum si)iniferous, with s^nne- tipped 

 crest; preoperculum, suboi^erculum, and interoperculum denticulated. Snout short; mouth 

 large, oblique; teeth in villous bands upon the jaws, vomer, palatines and tongue. Bran- 

 chiostegals 7. Dorsal tin long, with 11 spines and 11 or 1'2 soft rays, the spines serrated. 

 Anal with strong spines. Tail rounded. 



POLYPRION AMERICANUM, (Schneider), Jordan. (Figure 238.) 



Le Mo'ou de Cap Breton, Ddhamel du Monceau, Trait6 des Pesflics, 1769, p. 38. 



Amphiprion americanum, .Schneider, Block's Syst. Ichtli., 205. pi. XLVli. 



rolijprion americanum, Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Amer., 1885 (1889), 83. 



Epinephelus oxi/geneios, Schneider, op. cit, 301. 



Polyprion oxyt/enius, Jordan aud Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 532. 



Scorpana manniliensis, Risso, Ichtliyologie de Nice, 1810, 184. 



Holoee.ntrM (jido, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Mtfrid., 1826, ill, 367. 



Po?;//))ioHccrni«m, Valenciennes, Mem. du Museum, XI, 265, pi. xvii. — Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 



Nat. Poiss., ui, 21, pi. xLli, viii, 475.— Yarrell, Brit. Fish, 2d ed., i, 19, fig. (ed. 3) ii, 124.— Swainson, 



Fishes, ii, 203. 

 I'ercaprogiHtthuH, Forster, ms. 

 Polyprion proynathus, Gunther, Ann. & Mag., Nat. Hist., 1887, 236. 



Serranids with body robust, elevated, its height two-fifths of its length and somewhat 

 compressed. Moutli large, the maxillary extending to vertical from posterior margin of orbit; 

 lower jaw longer. Supraocular region, scapula, suprascapnla, preoiiercle, and a ridge on 

 opercle spinigerous. Anal spines short, serrate anteriorly, the third much the longest. 

 Caudal rounded. 



liadial formula: D. xi, 12; A. iii, 8. 



Color, brownish gray, the caudal with a white margin. 



This fish, the Cernier, Cerniola, or Stone Bass of Europe, is found along the coasts of 



*Cha]lenger Report, i, (Part vi), 37, pi. xvi, tig. G. 



\ Pronotugrammua eos, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII; 62. 



