348 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Branchiostegals 6 or 7. Air-vessel large, commonly bifurcate in 
front and with 2 slender horns behind. Pyloric ccoeca few. Ver- 
tebre 10 + I14== 24. Scales moderate, or small, ctenoid, densely 
covering soft parts of vertical fins. A large accessory scale in 
Sparide. Lateral line present, following curve of back. Dorsal 
fins 2, somewhat connected, first of VII to XI spines, which are 
depressible in a groove. Soft dorsal and anal anteriorly high, 
their bases thickened by scales. Anal spines III or IV, short. 
Caudal truncate or doubly concave. Pectorals short, rays all 
branched. Ventrals thoracic, normally I, 5, sometimes rudi- 
mentary. 
Shore-fishes mostly of large size in warm seas, and often valued 
as food. 
Genus CHATODIPTERUS Lacépeéde. 
The Spade Fishes. 
Chzetodipterus faber (Broussonet). 
BGAN 7 
Angel Fish. 
Flead 314; depth 1%4; D. IX, 23; A: III, 185 52 tubes in lat 
eral line; 12 scales between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral 
line; 30 scales in a vertical series between origin of rayed anal 
and lateral line; snout 21%4 in head; eye 4%; interorbital space 
23/,; maxillary 31%; second dorsal spine 134; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 2; upper caudal lobe 1; pectoral 124; ventral 1; 
longest dorsal ray 2 in head and trunk; longest anal ray 3. Body 
deep, much compressed, elevated, nearly orbicular, and anterior 
profile nearly vertical. Head deep, compressed. Snout robust, 
convex. Eye circular, high, anterior. Jaws heavy, upper pro- 
truding a little. Lips thick and fleshy. Teeth in jaws slender, 
somewhat movable. Nostrils separated widely, anterior circular 
and inferior, posterior slit-like, close before front of eye. Inter- 
orbital space convexly swollen. Preopercle finely serrate. Pre- 
orbital nearly as wide as eye, Gill-rakers 5 -++ 12, little elongate, 
thick. Scales small, crowded, minute and very numerous on 
