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species, it is somewhat questionable if it is not mal a propos in 
this instance. In either case, however, their occurrence on our 
coast is to be attributed to the Gulf Stream, so that they would 
probably be nothing more than accidental stragglers. 
Hemulon formosum Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. 
Genus ANISOTREMUS Gill. 
The Pork Fishes. 
Anisotremus virginicus (Linnzus). 
PLATE 50, 
This may be identified by the outer portions of the vertical fins 
being naked and with to or 11 branched rays. 
Included on the authority of Dr. Abbott, who met with an 
example in the Trenton fish market, said to have been received 
from Barnegat. He also stated that an occasional example has 
been taken on our coast. A tropical American fish wandering 
north in the Gulf Stream occasionally. 
Anisotremus virginicus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. 
Genus OrTHOPRISTIS Girard. 
The Pig: Fishes. 
Orthopristis chrysopterus (Linneus). 
PLATE 57. 
Speckled Red Mouth. 
Head:25%; depth 35). X1) 1, 16, 13, A: LIT, 13, 2; scales about 
67 in lateral line to base of caudal, and 2 more on latter; about 11 
scales obliquely back from origin of spinous dorsal to lateral line; 
16 scales obliquely forward from origin of spinous anal to lateral 
line; mandible about 2% in head; snout 3% in head measured 
from tip of upper jaw; eye 3%; maxillary 3; fourth dorsal spine 
2; eighth dorsal ray 2%; third anal spine 3% ; third anal ray 2; 
