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and its coloration is less red than that of the Atlantic 
species of the genus. 
Head -.33:depth 224 54D: Xi. 125° Ay TMs. sedles 
3-36-7; longest dorsal spine 134 in head; longest dor- 
sal ray 13; caudal lobes 1%; third anal spine 13; 
pectoral 12; ventral rays 1, 7. Seven scales on cheek. 
Maxillary slipping under preorbital. Ventral with acces- 
sory scale. Dorsal lying in a groove. 
Body short and deep, compressed, with slender caudal 
peduncle; anterior profile rounded. Mouth small; upper 
jaw protractile. Teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer 
and palatines. Maxillary moderate, slipping under the 
very narrow preorbital, which, like rest of suborbital ring, 
is armed with close-set sharp teeth, turned backwards. 
Preopercle, opercle, subopercle, interopercle and postem- 
poral armed with similar teeth. Preopercular spine nearly 
as long as pupil; nearly as long as eye on large speci- 
mens. ‘Two spines on opercle. 
Steel gray, underlaid by bright coppery red, which be- 
comes brighter after death. Everywhere much punctate 
with black, the dots coarse. Sides, and especially back, 
with purple reflections. Top and side of head coppery; 
a curved bright silvery streak from tip of snout, below 
eye and around it, ceasing opposite middle of pupil. A 
vertical silver streak on edge of opercle and extend- 
ing out on spine. Head yellowish, upper lip reddish; 
lower with throat silvery. Dorsal brown, clouded with 
reddish and dark; dark brown near edge, then a series 
of grayish clouds; roundish, irregular, whitish spots at its 
base. Second dorsal reddish, its rays pale, its first two 
black; the caudal red, base pale; the upper and lower 
rays dark yellowish, darkest in young, the dark extending 
on peduncle above and below. Anal spines whitish, the 
soft rays bright red, the last ones pale, the first soft rays 
