258 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 
Plectromus suborbitalis. 
The color is black. The dorsal fin has three spines and sixteen rays, 
and the anal onespine and eight rays. Twospines—one on each side of 
the nape—springing forward from the shoulder bones, give a strange 
appearance to the fish, and have gained for it the generic name Plee- 
tromus (plectron, spur, and omos, shoulder). 
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STEPHANOBERYX. 
Berycids with an elongated claviform contour, body covered with 
eycloid scales scarcely imbricated and armed about the center with one 
or two erect spines; an oblong head with a moderate convex snout, and 
with thin osseous ridges, especially an inner U-shaped one on the crown 
whose limbs diverge on each side of the nape, and an outer sigmoid one 
on each side above the eyes and continuous with one projecting from 
the nasal; the inner and outer ridges connected by a cross-bar on a line 
with the anterior margin of the orbit; rather small eyes in the anterior 
half of the head, and the teeth small, acute, and in a band on the inter- 
maxillaries and dentaries (palate toothless); and with ventrals having 
one spine and five rays.—Closely allied to Melamphaes. 
Stephanoberyx Mone. 
A small fish of a brownish color, which exhibits a beautiful system of 
crests, ridges, and spines on the head. D. 14. A.13. P.10. V.1.5. 
Lat. | Long. Fathoms. | Specimens. 
N. M. No. | Station. | 
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CAULOLEPIS. 
Berycids with a laterally oval or broad pyriform contour a com- 
pressed body covered with small pedunculated leaf-like scales, an — 
abruptly declivous forehead, small eyes, a pair of very long pointed — 
teeth in front of upper jaw closing in front of lower, a similar pair of 
still longer pointed teeth in the lower received in fovex of the palate; 
on the sides of each jaw two long teeth terminating in bulbous tips, a 
row of minute teeth on the posterior half of the supramaxillaries, and a 
toothless palate.—Closely related to Anoplogaster. 
Caulolepis longidens. 
The color is a uniform black ; there are two spines and seventeen rays | 
in the dorsal fin, and two spines and eight rays in the anal; the front 
