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laxilla than elsewhere on the head; lateral line ascending over 

 he pectoral, then nearly following the outline of the back to 

 he caudal peduncle, where it becomes median. 



D. X, 11; A. Ill, 9; scales 10-45-23. 



Color in life bright red or crimson; the fins, except the pec- 

 orals, with black tips; the eye glowing like molten gold. 



The species is found in rather deep water in the West Indies 

 nd from the Caribbean to Charleston, the young often follow- 

 Qg the Gulf Stream northward in summer to Cape Cod. The 

 argest individual recorded is 11 inches long. Most of the speci- 

 lens taken near Cape Cod are small. The northern limit of the 

 sh appears to be Marblehead Mass., where an example was 

 aken Sep. 3, 1859. 



The type of the species was collected in Narragansett bay. 



ndividuals were obtained at Woods Hole Mass., Sep. 29_, 1875, 



lep. 26, 1877 and Nov. 28, 1885. On Nov. 1, 1890, a specimen 



.^as found in the Acushnet river, at New Bedford. In 1899 over 



00 specimens were taken at Woods Hole, and in 1900 only nine 



^ere observed between August 15 and September 8. The writer 



btained the species in moderate numbers in the Gulf of 



lexicoin 1886. The colors of large individuals appear to be 



3SS brilliant than in the young, but the fish is always strikingly 



andsome. 



Family lxjtianidab 



Snappers 

 Genus neoma-eivis Girard 

 Body oblong, compressed, the back somewhat elevated; head 

 )ng, naked above, except for a broad oblique band of scales at 

 he nape; nostrils normally close together, neither with a tube; 

 louth large, the jaws with bands of villiform teeth, besides 

 ^hich there is usually an outer series of larger teeth in each 

 iw, and two to four stronger teeth or canines in front of upper 

 iw; vomer with villiform teeth; villiform teeth on the pala- 

 ines; usually one or more patches of teeth on the tongue in 

 tie adult; no molar teeth; no teeth on pterygoids; preopercle 

 dthout notch or with a shallow emargination; posterior limb 



