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eye 7%; pectoral 134; ventral 23; anal ray 24; caudal 
1%. Longest dorsal spine 23; longest dorsal ray 232. 
Gill-rakers short 3-++-8, not longer than pupil. 
Body robust, rather elongate. Head large, low, its 
profile not steep, a depression before eye. Canines in 
both jaws, rather strong. Nostrils well separated, the 
posterior scarcely longer than anterior. Lower jaw 
strongly projecting. Preopercle slightly notched, the 
angle little salient.: Dorsal rather deeply notched, the 
fourth spine not especially elevated. Second dorsal high 
and long, with rounded angles. Caudal slightly lunate. 
Anal high, but not falcate, its middle rays much elevated 
but not exserted; both outlines nearly straight. 
Color olive almost black above, with four series of ob- 
long blackish, cloud-like blotches along sides; these 
irregular in size, the largest twice length of eye. Fins 
all dark, clouded with darker. A little dark red on pec- 
toral and on the lower edge of anal and caudal. Pale 
edge on dorsal, anal, and caudal very slight; none on 
pectoral. Cheeks and opercles clouded, the cheeks 
faintly reticulate, the lower parts grayish, faintly mottled. 
Inside of mouth pale. 
114. Mycteroperca xenarcha Jordan. 
One specimen, 22 inches long, from the Venados 
Islands. 
Head 224; depth 3. "Dorsal" XI, 16. (Amalie 
Scales 25-110 to 115-50. 
Body rather deep and compressed; head compressed, 
with rather short, sharp snout, which is 4 in head; profile 
steep and nearly straight. Mouth large, the maxillary 
reaching scarcely beyond eye, 2in head. Lower canines 
small; upper canines (two in number) strong, scarcely 
directed forward. Eye small, 7 in head.  Preorbital 
