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of upper jaw, though becoming progressively smaller posteriorly. 

 Canines 70^ in front of jaws, lower pairs smaller. Mandible with a 

 narrow band of fine teeth, becoming narrower posteriorly. Each side 

 of mandible with about 5 or 6 enlarged canines. Bands of minute 

 teeth on vomer and palatines. Tongue long, slender, pointed and free. 

 Interorbital space flattened. Gill-opening forward to posterior nostril. 

 Gill-rakers v, 2 + 0. ir, equal filaments and about half of eye. Pseudo- 

 branchiiT3 avS long as filaments. Axil of pectoral rather deep. Scales 

 finely ctenoid. Interorbital space and mandible naked. Tubes of 

 lateral line simple. Vent about last fourth in space between tip of 

 ventral spine and origin of spinous anal. Color in alcohol rather bright 

 brown, back deeper colored, also upper surface of head. A deep brown 

 ine along upper margin of preopercle a short distance and with others 

 below. Around eye a more or less interrupted deep brown line which 

 in front extends down across cheek behind maxillary to lower anterior 

 edge of preopercle. On posterior part of cheek traces of a similarly 

 inclined obsolete line towards angle of preopercle. On snout and 

 preorbital several small brownish spots. Fins all plain or pale brown- 

 ish, spinous dorsal darkest basally. Iris slaty. Length 5^ inches. 

 Type. 



Hypoplectrus unicolor chlorurus (Cuvicr). 



St. Croix, W. I. (Thomas Davidson, Dr. R. E. Griffith). 



Faralabrax nebulifer (Girard). 



California? (E. D. Cope) ; San Diego, Cal. (]\Ius. Comp. Zool. Camb.). 



Faralabrax maculo-fasciatus (Steindachner). 



Los Angeles Bay, Cal. (W. N. Lockington). 

 Faralabrax clathratus (Girard). 



Santa Barbara, Cal. (U. S. F. C). 



Centropristis striatus (Lmnaus). 



Bayport, Fla. (E. D. Cope) ; South Carolina (Dr. J. E. Holbrook) ; 

 Newport, R. I. (Samuel Powell and Dr. J. Leidy) ; Wood's Hole,' Mass. 



(U. S. F. C). 



Centropristis pbiladelphious (Linaxus). 



South Carohna (Dr. J. E. Holbrook). 



Diplectrum radiate (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Rio Janeiro, Brazil (Dr. W. S. W. Ruschenbcrger) ; Manangucz, 

 Porto Rico (U. S. F. C). 



Diplectrum formosum (Linnaeus). 



Clearwater, Fla. (Dr. H. A. Pilsbry). 



