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Europe from Norway to the Mediterranean and tlie Cape of Good Hope, and lias also been 

 recorded fi'om Madeira and the Southern Indian Ocean. 

 A specimen was obtained on the Grand Banks by one of the Gloucester tisliinji vessels. 



Family LUTJANID^^. 



Lutjanidw, Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 351. 



Acanthopterygians of the ordinary type with compres.sed head and body, the supramax- 

 illary bones slipping under the preorbital, continuous lateral line, dorsal with spinous 

 part tlepressible in a groove. Pectorals with lower rays branched. Teeth all conical and 

 pointed, and canines more or less developed in jaws. Vomer dentigerous. Preopercle 

 serrate. Dorsal tin continuous. Pyloric ca'ca few. 



APRION, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Apriot), Cuvier ami Valenciennes, Hi«t. Nat. Polss., vi, 18, xx, 544, pi. clxviii. — CrtiNTHEit, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mils., I, 81.— Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 351. 



Lutjanoids characterized by the presence of villiform teeth on the vomer, acute teeth 

 in the jaws; interobital area flat, separated by a line from the occipital region. Dorsal fin 

 continuous. Supraorbital margin crenate; periotic region much swollen outwards, and 

 with the bones thiu and polished; preorbital moderate; frontals behind, with funnel- 

 shaped foramina; soft dorsal and anal scaleless; last rays of dorsal and anal produced. 

 [Jordan.) 



APRION MACROPHTHALMUS, (MCller) Jokdan and Swain. fFigiiro 314.) 



Centroprisiis ma(ro2}hlhal»nts, Mi'Li.ER and Troschel, in Schoniburgh's Hist. Barbadoes, 666, 1848 (young). 

 Elasldina macropklhaimttx. Cope, Trans. Am. Pliiliis. Soc.., 468, 186'J (St. Martin's, New Providence, St. Croix). 

 Sfesoprion vorax, PoEV, Mem., ii, 151, 1860 (Cuba). 

 Plali/iniiis rornj; Gii.L, Prop. Acad. Nat. Sri. Phila., 1862 (generic diagnosis). — PoEY, Synopsis Pise. Cub., 



1868, 292; Enunieratio, Pise. Cub., 1875, 31. 

 Aprion macruphtJialiiiiis, Jor.DAN and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vil, 1884, 467. 



An Aprion having the body oblong-elliptical, its height contained 3 times in length. 

 Mouth rather small, the canines feeble; tongue toothless; vomerine teeth in a A-shaped 

 patch. Scales large, regularly arranged, those above lateral line in series parallel with the 

 lateral line, which contains from 53 to 60 scales, with 7 above, 14 or 15 below, and 52 pores. 

 Dorsal spines 10; last ray of dorsal and anal produced. Gillrakers numerous, about 17 

 on lower part of arch. Color rose-red, with some pearly markings. 



Radial formiUa: D. x, 11; A. iii, 8. 



This species, described from moderate depths oft' Barbadoes, St. Martin's, New Provi- 

 dence, St. Croix, and Cuba, was taken by the Blake at station CCLXI, in 23° 15' N. lat., 89° 

 10' W. Ion., at a depth of 84 fathoms. 



VERILUS, Poey. 



Verilua, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1860, 125.— Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 355.— Jordan and 

 Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 429, 470. 



A genus of Lutjanoids characterized by cavernous frontals (like those of Scisenoids), 

 with longitudinal osseous bars, leaving interspaces in front of transverse ridge and on each 

 side near the front; supraorbital margins smooth; prefrontals behind with simple foramina 

 for olfactory nerves; body comparatively short and deep; head scaly above and on jaws 

 and snout; soft dorsal and anal scaly at base; peritoneum aud lining of gill cavity black; 

 caudal lunate.* 



* This, as Jordan and Swaiu have pointed out, is evidently from its structure a true batliybial form. 



