TUS NEW VOKK STATE MUSEUM 



of pi-cMi>cr(lc flnoly serrate; gill fakers rather few, shortish; soft 

 lays of dorsal and aual scaly at base; dorsal spines 10 (rarely 

 1 1 1. coiHiniious witli the soft rays; caudal lunate or forked; anal 

 lays sfven to nine. Intororbital area not flat nor separated 

 Ironi the occipital re<;ion, the median and lateral crests procur- 

 icnt on it, and the frontal narrowed forward; fronto-occipital 

 crest ceasing anteriorly far from front of frontal, usually be- 

 hind eye; prefrontal with posterior areas impressed, long and 

 ciiliiifonii: iarietal crest not confluent with orbital rim, but 

 nearly or (luite joined anteriorly to fronto-occipital crest (in 

 species examined); prefrontals with the articular facets arising 

 from diverging Y-shaped ridges; basisphenoid with an anterior 

 !(liif<inii extension. Wrtebrae 10+14=24. 



L'Td Neomaenis griseus (Linnaeus) 



Graif Snapper; Mangrove Snapper 



I.iihnis (jriseiis Linxaeus, Sj^st. Nat. ed. X, I, 283, 1758. 



Misopriou yriseiis Cua'ier &, Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. II, 4(19, 18:^8, 



San Domingo. 

 Lobotcs omarginritus Baii;d & Gieard, 9tli Smitlison. Rep. 332, 1855, Bees 



ley's Point, N. J. 

 Mrsoprion cahaUcrote Poev, Ropertorio, II, 157, 1868. 

 J.iilidiiii.s rahaUcrote Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens. 293, 1868; Jordan & Gilheut. 



Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 921, 1883; Goode & Be.\n, Proc. T'. S. N:it. 



Mils. YI, 42, 1884. 

 I.iitiinitis stediusii Goode & Bean, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. I. 179, 1878, Pens.i- 



eola Fla.; Goode, Fish & Fish. Inrl. U. S. I, 396, pi. 142, 1884. 

 I.iiljaniis (jriseiis Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 439, 1884; Jordan 



& Fesler, Rept. U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891, 441, 1893. 

 S'voiiKiniifi {irisens Jordan & Ea^eemann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1255, 18!S; 



IF. M. Smith. I'.ull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100. 1898; op. cit. 1901, 33, 1901. 



Hody elengate, its depth about one third of total length with- 

 out caudal; back iini niiirli compressed; ])rofile from snout to 

 nape almost straight; outline of back slightly convex. Head 

 railiei- large, four ele\cnllis of (olal length without caudal; tiie 

 snoiii |Miiiiic(l. one (liird as long as (lie head; eye small, two 

 lliii-<is as lung as I he snoui. lallier more than one fifth as long 

 as 1 lie head; |Me((rlii(al Inoad. alinii as lu-(a(l as (he interorbital 

 sjiace which is gently convex and one sixth of lengdi of head;] 

 occipital U<'el low. .Moudi large, (he jaws nearly ecpial in front;] 



