88. SPARID^ LUTJANUS. 547 



preoperculura pectinate behind ; mouth rather small, very oblique ; chin 

 much projecting, a pore on each side of it at the symphysis ; teeth very 

 small, recurved, in narrow bands in each jaw; vomer with a rhomboid 

 patch of very minute teeth ; i)alatines nearly toothless ; tongue slightly 

 rough 5 branchiostegals 7 ; pseudobranchijB jiresent; scales small, firm, 

 ctenoid; lateral line continuous ; dorsal fins separate or connected by 

 a low membrane; the first received into a groove, and composed of 

 about 10 slender but rigid spines ; second dorsal low ; anal fins with 3 

 graduated spines and 10 to 20 rays ; caudal fin emarginate, with rounded 

 lobes; ventrals with a pointed axillary scale. Pacific Ocean. {U><>', 

 strange ; i/Oh^, fish.) 



a. Anal fiu not elongate. 



860. X. call for niensis Steindacliner. 



Silvery, with continuous dusky stripes along the rows of scales on the 

 upper half of the body, 3 above the lateral line, 4 or 5 below. Body 

 oblong, not elevated nor much compressed ; mouth moderate, terminal, 

 very oblique, the lower jaw strongly protruding; premaxillary in front 

 above the middle of the large eye; maxillary not very broad, reaching 

 opposite front of pupil ; eye 3i in head, longer than snout. Teeth in 

 jaws villiform, in a very narrowband; on the vomer scarcely appreciable; 

 edge of preopercle finely serrate ; no opercular spine ; ventrals with a 

 large accessory scale ; gill-rakers very long and slender; pseudobranchife 

 large; scales small, firm, quite rough, covering the top of the head, 

 cheeks, and most of the preorbital, which is rather narrow ; soft parts 

 of vertical fins well scaled ; spinous dorsal depressible in a groove, the 

 spines stift"; the two dorsals almost separate; second spine highest, the 

 others regularly shorter ; soft dorsal low; caudal forked; second and 

 third anal spines high. Pectoral falcate, f length of head, reaching be- 

 yond the tips of the rather short ventrals. Head 3J ; dex^th 3 J. D. IX- 

 I, 12 ; A. Ill, 10 ; Lat. 1. 52. Pacific coast, from San Diego southward. 

 Here described from specimens collected by Dr. Streets at Oerros Island. 



(Steindacliner, Icbth. Beitriige, iii, 3, 1875; Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. vii, 49.) 



2§2.— L.UTJANUS Block & Schneider. 



Snappers. 



(Mesoprion CiwicT : Dwtcojje Cuvier : Genijoroge Cantor.) 



(Bloch & Schneider, Systema Ichthyol. 1801, 324: type Luljanus luljanusBl. &Schn.) 



Body oblong, compressed, the back somewhat elevated ; head long ; 



mouth large, the jaws with bands of villiform teeth, besides which are 



