[83] CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



965. Serranus calopteryx ' Jordan & Gilbert. P. 



$ Paralabrax Girard. 



966. Serranus clathratus Girard. C. (840) 



967. Serranus maculofasciatus Steindacbner. C. P. (841) 



968. Serranus nebulifer Girard. C. (842) 



303.— HYPOPLECTRUS Gill. (274 J.) 



969. Hypoplectrus nigricans Poey. W. (843) 



970. Hypoplectrus gemma* Goode & Bean. W. 



304-.— ANTHIAS3 Bloch. 



971. Authias multifasciatus Gill. P. 



972. Anthias vivanus-" Jordan. W. 



305.— PARANTHIAS Guichenot. (273 6.) 



973. Paranthiasfurcifer Cuv. &Val. W. P. (835 &.) 



306.— POLYPRION Cuvier. 



974. Ppljrprion americanus^ Blocb & Schneider. Ace. B. Eu. (835) 



307.— STEREOLEPIS Ayres. 



975. Stereolepis gigas Ayres. C. (834) 



in profile, much less slender than in S. subligarius. Teeth moderate, those on sides 

 of lower jaw and front of upper largest ; mouth moderate, the maxillary reaching to 

 center of pupil, 2i in head ; lower jaw projecting ; snout 3? in head ; eye large, 3f 

 in head. Scales on cheeks large ; preopercle moderately serrate, the teeth nearly 

 uniform ; gill-rakers rather short. Caudal moderately forked ; dorsal spines rather 

 strong, higher than the soft rays, the longest 2^ in head; second and third anal spines 

 subequal; pectorals reaching front of anal. If in head; head 2f ; depth 3^ ; D X. 12, 

 A. Ill, 7. Scales 5-48-14. L. 8 inches. "West Indies, north to Pensacola, Florida. 



(Poey, Memorias Cuba, I, 1851, 55 ; Centropristia phoeie Giinther, I, 85, 1859; Hali- 

 percaphwieFoej, Enum. Pise. Cubens., 1875, 22.) 



> Prionodes fasdatus Jenyns, Voyage of the Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 46 = Serranus 

 calopteryx Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 350. Mazatlan to Galapagos 

 Islands. The name fasdatus is preoccupied in this genus. 



-Hypoplectrus gemma Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 428. Garden Key, 

 Florida. 



^ANTHIASBloch. 

 (Pronotogramvius Gill.) 



(Bloch, Ichtbyologia, type Luirus anthias L. :=Anthias sacer Bloch.) 



This genus is closely allied to Serraniia, differing technically chiefly in the direction 

 of the lateral line, which runs very high and is concurrent with the back, becoming 

 abruptly straight and horizontal below last rays of dorsal. The body is rather 

 strongly compressed, the snout blunt, the mouth oblique, the maxillary broad and 

 scaly, and some of the fins with produced or filamentous rays, and the caudal generally 

 deeply forked. Species of rather small size, mostly inhabiting deep waters. 



Anthias multifasdatus = Pronotogrammus multifasciatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci, 

 Phila., 1883, 81. Cape San Lucas. See Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 18821, 

 360. 



^Anthias vivanus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885. Pensacola. 



*Amphiprion americanus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 25 ; not EpinepTielua 

 oxygenenios Bloch & Schneider, 1. c. 301. 



