62 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
SCHISTOPERCA MACROBRACHIUM, new species 
FIGURE 9 
Depth 314; head 3, width 2. Snout 514 in head measured from 
snout tip; eye 3874, greater than snout, subequal with interorbital, 
snout tip level wit! middle of eye; maxillary reaches below first third 
in eye, expansion 2, length 3 in head from snout tip; lips rather broad, 
fleshy, smooth; mouth well inclined, lower jaw well protruding in 
front; teeth in jaws barely perceptible, very minute, feeble, incon- 
spicuous; interorbital 3144 in head measured from snout tip, moderate, 
convex; suborbital very narrow, ensheaths maxillary anteriorly; pre- 
opercle with hind edge furnished with row of few spinules. Lower 
edge of gill opening with 3 short backwardly curved spines. Gill 
opening large, extends forward below until opposite eye. Gill rakers 
10+20, slender, lanceolate. 
H. W.F. del. 
Ficure 9.—Schistoperca macrobrachium, new species: Paratype (U.S.N.M No. 99531). 
Scales 28+2 in lateral line; 3 above to second dorsal origin, 7 below 
to anal origin, 14 predorsal forward nearly to front of snout tip. 
Head well scaled, 2 rows on cheek. Vertical fins well covered with 
small scales over basal portions. Prepectoral region with scales 
smaller than on body and pectoral fins covered with small scales 
basally. Flap between ventrals formed of 2 large scales. 
D. VIII—I, 8, 1, fourth spine 214 in total head length, first 
branched ray 2; A. III, 7,1, third spine 2%, first branched ray 1345 
caudal 1149, moderately forked, with broad pointed lobes and fulcra 
series of distinct graduated spines; least depth of caudal peduncle 
