70 Stover's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .America. 



GENUS V. CONODON, Cuv. 

 Distinguished from all the other Scienoides by a row of conical teeth in 



both jaws. 



1. Conodon Antillanus, Cuv. 



Silvery, with seven verlical brown bands. Fins brown. A row of eighteen or twenty 

 conical teeth in each jaw ; the six anterior stoutest and longest. The six in the lower, thick- 

 er than those in the upper jaw. Preopercular denticulations stout. Two very small pores 

 at the chin. 



D. 12, 12 or 11-1, 12. P. (?)■ V. (?). A. 3-7. C (?). Length, 8 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Le Conodon des Antilles, Conodon Antillanus, Cuv. el Vai.., v. p. 156. 



GENUS VI. EQUES, Bl. 

 Body compressed, long, high on the shoulders, and terminating in a point 

 towards the tail ; their teeth are even : two dorsal fins, the first high, the 

 second long and scaly. 



1. Eques balteatus, Cuv. 



Yellowish gray, silvery towards the abdomen, with three broad dark-brown bands; the 

 first is vertical, passing from over the eye, across to the angle of the mouth ; the second 

 begins upon the occiput, passes down across the operculum in front of the pectoral fin, and, 

 curving a little, extends upon the base of the ventral fins ; the third, commencing at the an- 

 terior base of the first dorsal, curves obliquely downward, and extends the whole length of 

 the centre of the body, to the extremity of the tail. 



D. 16, 1-53. P. 15. V. 1-5. A. 2-10. C. 19. Length, 6 or 7 inches. 



Gulf of Mexico, Parra. Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called " Genlilhomme," at Martinique ; " Serrana," at Havana. 



Serrana, Parp.a, p. 2, pi. 2, upper fig. 



Eques Americanus, Block. 



Eques balleatus, Griffith's Cuv, x. pi. 21, fig. 1. 



Le Chevalier a baudrier, Eques balleatus, Cuv. et Val, v. p. 1 5. 



2. Eques punctatus, Bloch. 



Of a dark brown color, with five narrow, gray, longitudinal bands upon the sides ; the 

 three middle bands curve slightly upwards towards the first dorsal. Two verlical bands 

 upon the head. Dorsal, caudal, and anal, with round bluish or gray spots. 



D. 11, 1-46. P. 18. V. 1-5. A. 2-7. C. 19. Length, (r)- 



Gulf of Mexico. Parra. Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



