;;70 NEW YORK state museum 



premaxillary toeth small, about 43 developed in the individual 

 examined (sometimes 35 to 40), front of the premaxillaries 

 Avith four large canines, the posterior pair slightly larger, 

 one third as long as the eye; three large, bladelike fangs 

 on each side of palatines; a large compressed fang at 

 symphysis of lower jaw, mandible with about 17 moder- 

 ately large, compressed teeth on each side; eye one sixth 

 of length of head, one half postorbital part of head; dor- 

 sal origin at a distance from snout equal to three times length 

 of snout, base of spinous dorsal one third length of head from 

 ti]) of ui)per jaw, second spine longest, nearly one third of 

 length of head, fifth spine one half as long as the second, inter- 

 space between first and second dorsal equal to snout and eye 

 combined, base of second dorsal tw^o sevenths of length of head, 

 including lower jaw, longest ray as long as base of fin, last ray 

 one fifth of length of head; ventral a little in advance of spinous 

 dorsal, its distance from the head equal to length of pectoral, 

 its length two sevenths of length of head; anal origin under 

 middle of dorsal base, anal base one fourth the length of head, 

 longest anal ray equal to ventral, last ray one half the postor- 

 liitiil part of head; middle caudal rays very short, external rays 

 as long as snout and eye combined; pectoral as long as postor- 

 l)ii.il pari (f head; top of head with minute embedded scales; 

 clM-eks and ojiercles scaly, but interopercle and posterior half of 

 o]n-yr\v nak.MJ. B. VII, D. V-I, 9; A. I, 8; Y. I, 5; P. I, 12. Scales 

 1". lo l(i 111' to 121-13 to 17. 



'ol()r jiale green above, t<oft dorsal yellowish; anal and ventr*al 

 lins cliieily pale l)ii( basal iart of ventral dusky; pectoral and 

 iHKlal dusky at tip; (hiik punctulations on spinous dorsal and 



'l'I<i" I'iiil of body. Tlie specimen described is no. 30015, 



.laniaica. in ilie U. S. national museum. 



An individual jpi inches long was taken at Woods Hole 

 .Mass.. and is described by Goode and Bean in Proceedings of the 

 V. S. National Mnxenm, II, 147, 1880. The species ranges from 

 tlic W rs! Indies to Florida, and occasionally northward in sum- 

 mer u ( 'ape ("od. 



