564 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Depth 3 in total. Head 3J. D. YI-I, 9 ; A. II, S ; scales 3-25-9. 

 ( Vaillant & Bocourt.) West Indies ; accidental at Newport. 



(Casteluau, Anim. Nouv. Rares Am^r. du Sud, Poiss. 3; Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 

 ail Mex. 41 : Apogonichthys americanus Giinther, i, 247.) 



aa. Edge of preopercle entire ; scales comparatively small. {Glossamia* Gill.) 

 §90. A. pandionis Goode & Bean. 



Color nearly plain reddish, the body and tins everywhere speckled 

 with fine dots. Body oblong, not elevated nor greatly compressed. 

 Eye very large, forming nearly half the length of the side of the head, 

 much greater than the interorbital space ; maxillary extending to oppo- 

 site pupil ; preopercle entire. Gill-rakers very long and slender. Mouth 

 oblique, but not nearly vertical, the lower jaw projecting. Fins low; 

 caudal well forked. Head 4 ; depth 4. D. VII-I, 9 ; A. II, 9 ; scales 

 small, cycloid, 3-45-8. Deep water, off' Chesapeake Bay. 



(Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, IGO.) 



Family XC.-MULLID^. 



{TUe Surmullets.) 



Body elongate, slightly compressed, covered with large ctenoid scales; 

 lateral line continuous ; large scales on the head ; upper profile of the 

 head more or less parabolic. Mouth small ; teeth present in one ynw at 

 least, and sometimes in both, or on the vomer or palatines. Premaxil- 

 laries protractile; maxillaries without supplemental bone, partly hidden 

 by the broad preorbital. Eye moderate, placed high ; branchiostegals 

 4; 2 long barbels at the throat, attached just behind the symphysis 

 of the lower jaw. Dorsal fins 2, remote from each other, the first of sev- 

 eral high spines, which are depressible in a groove ; anal similar to the 

 soft dorsal, with 1 or 2 small spines ; ventrals thoracic, I, 5. Genera 5 ; 

 species 35, in all tropical seas, some species straying northward. 

 (MulUdce Gunther, i, 397-411.) 



* Teeth in lower jaw, and on vomer and palatines ; none in the upper jaw.MULLUS, 292. 

 ** Teeth in both jaws ; none on vomer or palatines Upeneus, 293. 



292.— MUL-LIIS Linuajus. 

 Surmullets. 

 (Linnaeus, Syst. Naturae: type MuUus harhatus L.) 



Teeth in the lower jaw and on the vomer and palatines ; none in the 

 upper jaw ; dorsal spines 7 ; anal spines very small. Otherwise as in 



* Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 82 : type Apogon aprion Rich. {y?Maaa, 

 tongue; ajuia, Amia, a name applied by Grouow to Apogon.) 



