1907,] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 267 



Faranthias furcifer (Valenciennes). 



St. Croix, W. I. (Capt. Thomas Davidson). 



Anthias anthias (Linnxus). 



Italy (Bonaparte Coll.). 



CALLAXTHIIX.E. 



Branchiostegals 6. Lateral line single, and lost on upper surface 

 of caudal peduncle or under last dorsal rays. A single dorsal. Ventral 

 rays 5. 



Callanthias ruber (Rafinesque). 



Anthias buphthabi^us Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, Pesc. Ill, ii, 1833, descr., 

 PI. 86, fig. 3. Cotypes, Nos. 13,624 (type) to 13,637, and 17,161, A. N. 

 S. P. Italy. Bonaparte Coll. (Nos. 75 and 80) 



Head 3f ; depth 3f ; D. XI, 10; A. Ill, 10; scales about 40 in lateral 

 count to base of caudal and several more on latter; about 37 scales in 

 median lateral line to base of caudal ; about 24 tubes in dorsal lateral 

 line; 2 scales between origin of spinous dorsal and dorsal lateral line; 

 5 scales between dorsal lateral line and median lateral line, in a vertical 

 series opposite origin of rayed dorsal; 8 scales in a vertical series 

 between median course of median lateral line and origin of spinous 

 anal; width of head 2 in its length; eleventh dorsal spine 2^; third 

 dorsal ray 1^; third anal spine 2f ; sixth anal ray If; median caudal 

 rays If; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^; pectoral 1^; ventral 1^; 

 snout 4 in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 2f ; interorbital 

 space 3^; maxillary 2^^. Body well compressed, and edges more or 

 less rounded, or predorsal region with only an obsolete median keel. 

 Caudal peduncle compressed. Head well compressed. Snout about 

 as wide as long. Lips thin. Rami of mandible a little elevated inside 

 mouth. Teeth in jaws uniserial, conic and rather small. At front of 

 each jaw a pair of canines which protrude somewhat, and others along 

 each ramus of mandible. No vomerine or palatine teeth. Tongue 

 narrow, free and pointed. Interorbital space convex. Gill-opening 

 forward about first third of orbit. Rakers 10 + 25, slender, much 

 longer than filaments or about equal to eye horizontally. Pseudo- 

 branchiae nearly as large as filaments. Scales finely ctenoid. Color 

 in alcohol faded more or less uniform brownish, fins pale. Iris brassy- 

 yellow. Length 5f inches. Type. 



PHAROPTERYGIX.E. 



Branchiostegals 6. Vertebrae 25 or 26. Lateral lines 2, upper lost 

 on upper surface of caudal peduncle or under last dorsal rays, and 



