REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [114] 



1375. Brachyopsis verrucosus Lockington. C. (1113) 



1376. Brachyopsis xyosternuB Jordan & Gilbert. C. (1114) 



447.-BOTHRAGONUS Gill. (385) 



1377. Botliragonus s-wrani Steindaclmer. A. (1117) 



448.— ODONTOPYXIS Lockington. (386) 



1378. Odontopyxis trispinosus Lockingtou. C. (1118) 



449.— PODOTHECT7S Gill. (387) 



^ Leptagonus Gill. 



1379. Podothecus decagouus Bloch Si, Schneider. G. (1115) 



$ Podothecus. 



1380. Podothecus vulsus Jordan & Gilbert. C. (1119) 



1381. Podothecus acipenserinus Tilesius. A. (1120) 



Family CXXVI.— TRIGLID^. (108 h.) 



450.— PERISTEDION Lac6pfede. (388) 



1382. Peristedium miniatum. Goode. B. (1121) 



1383. Peristedium imberbe ' Poey. W. B. 



451.— PRIONOTUS Lac^pfede. (390) 



$ Omichthya Swainson. 



1384. Prionotus scitulus* Jordan & Gilbert. (1123) 



1385. Prionotus palmipes Mitchill. N. (1124) 



1386. Prionotus alatus^ Goode & Bean. B. 



' Peristedian imberbe Poey. 



Only a very few specimens of this fish are known ; all in bad condition, having 

 been taken from the stomachs of deep-water fishes at Havana and Peneacola. Bar- 

 bels very small, scarcely visible — this character distinguishing the species from the 

 others known in America. 



(Periatedion imberbe Poey, Memorias, II, 389, 1860. Peristedion micronemua Poey, Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist., IX, 321 ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884.) 



' I am unable to find any positive evidence of the occurrence of the West Indian 

 Prionotua punctatua on the coasts of the United States, all the specimens so named 

 being apparently either P. acitulua or P. palmipes. Prionotus punctatua may therefore 

 be omitted. 



^Prionotus alatus Goode & Bean. 



Brownish, with about four faint darker cross-bands ; vertical fins uniform, the 

 caudal with a black tip and two paler shades before it ; dorsal with the usual black 

 spots; pectorals blotched and clouded. Body rather stout, covered with small, rough 

 scales. Maxillary 3 in head ; preopercular, opercular, and humeral spines strong, the 

 latter extending farthest back. Palatine teeth few and feeble. Gill-rakers l-f-6, 

 besides some rudiments, the longest 3 in eye. Second dorsal spine longest, half head ; 

 first spine strongly serrated in front. Caudal subtruncate. Ninth ray of pectoral 

 longest, reaching base of caudal. Pectoral appendages slender. Head2i; depth 4, 

 D. X— 12. A. 11. P. 13-1-3. Scales 109; 50 tubes in lat.l. Deep water off Charleston, 

 S. C. {Goode 4- Bean.) 



(Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XIX, 1883, 210.) 



