Jordan and Hubbs: Fishes from Port Said. 



4G5 



Pre-opercle strongly serrate; anal fin long, its spines rather weak; 

 dorsal fin deeply notched, its spines weak; pre-orbital narrow; scales 

 moderate, without smaller ones at base; the series above parallel with 

 the lateral line; dorsal and anal scaleless; back moderately elevated; 

 gill-rakers moderate; lower jaw with a large pore at tip. Type 

 Pristipoma bennetti Lowe. 



i6. Dacymba bennetti (Lowe). (Plate XLVII.) 



No. 80140, C. M. 



Head two and four-fifths times in length; depth three times in 

 length; eye three and two-fifths times in head; fourth dorsal spine two 

 and one-half times in length of head; gill-rakers 6 + 15, the longest 

 three times in eye. D. XI, I, 16; A. Ill, 11. Scales with pores fifty- 

 two; pre-orbital narrow, six and one-half times in head. Lower side 

 of head with highly developed muciferous channels, especially on 

 lower jaw, where they are separated by cross-ridges. Maxillary 

 extending to just beyond front of eye. Anterior teeth in upper jaw 



Fig. I. Dacymba bennetti {Lowe). Lower side of head. Nat. size. CM. 



Catalog Fishes, No. 8014a. 



moderately enlarged. Pre-opercle strongly serrate. Pectoral long, 

 one and one-third times in head. Scales above lateral line in series 

 parallel with the lateral line. Tip of lower jaw with three pores, the 

 middle one largest. Dorsal and anal fins low, long, scaleless, running 

 in a scaly groove. Dorsal fin deeply divided, the spines slender; 

 second anal spine two and two-third times in head, the third spine 

 absent in our specimen, probably due to abnormal variation, as all 

 the rest of this family have three anal spines. Color brownish, 

 speckled; a large black spot at angle of opercle, probably disappearing 

 with age. One young specimen, about 60 mm. long to caudal base, 



