Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 535 



Mi. Head moderate, 3-% to 4% * n length; scales on cheeks in 6 or 7 rows. 



i. Head not vermiculato above, its length 3% to 4 in body; 6 rows of 



scales on chocks. JENKINSI, 813. 



u. Head vermiculate above, its length 4 to 4^ in body; 7 rows of scales 



on cheeks. FCETENS, 814- 



gg. About rows of scales in a vertical row between lateral line and adipose fin; 



checks with 9 rows of scales; scales 13-66-16, the vertical rows counted 



obliquely. LUCIOCEPS, 815. 



806. SYNODUS INTERMEDIUM (Agassiz). 

 (SAND DIVER.) 



Head 4 j depth 8 ; eye 4|. D. 11 ; A. 11 ; scales 4-48-7. Body rather 

 stout ; head blunt, large, the snout broader than long, about equal to 

 eye. Frontal bones little striate ; interorbital space concave, 6 in head ; 

 prominent striae behind eye ; jaws subequal ; preraaxillary If in head, 

 longer than pectoral. Scales large, 4 to 6 rows on cheeks, 3 series 

 between adipose fin and lateral line. Dorsal high, as high as long; pec- 

 toral 2 in head; ventral 1. Grayish, abruptly paler below; back and 

 sides with 8 dark crossbands broadest at lateral line, these some- 

 times alternating with fainter ones ; a large jet-black blotch on upper 

 part of shoulder girdle, hidden by opercle ; membrane of maxillary 

 black : dorsal and pectorals finely barred ; lower fins and branchiostegals 

 yellow; adult with an orange spot on 'each scale below. Length 15 

 inches. Coast of southern Florida to Brazil ; not rare ; the most brightly 

 colored of our species, (intermedius, intermediate between myops and 

 fattens.) 



Saurtts intermedius, AGASSIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 81, 1828, Brazil. 



Saurus anolis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxn, 483, 1849, Bahia ; Martinique. 



Sattriis intermedius, GUNTIIER, Cat., v, 396, 1864. 



Synodus intermediw, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 889, 1883. 



807. SYNODUS EVERMANNI, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 3^ to 3f ; depth 6 to 7. D. 10 ; A. 10 ; scales 4-47 to 49-5. Body 

 terete, rather robust ; snout short, rounded rather than pointed, 4 in 

 head. Mouth large ; maxillary If in head. Lower jaw barely project- 

 ing. Interorbital area concave, rugose, its least width 5 in head; 

 supraorbital ridge prominent, finely striate. Origin of dorsal nearer 

 adipose fin than snout by f width of interorbital area ; anterior rays 

 of dorsal coterminous with posterior when depressed, the last rays not 

 filamentous ; the free edge of the fin little concave ; dorsal fin higher 

 than long by nearly an eye's diameter, its length 2^ in head ; tip of ven- 

 trals reaching halfway to vent (farther in young); their length 1^-1J 

 in head ; pectorals extending to near middle of ventrals, ljj-1* in head ; 

 lobes of caudal equal. Lateral line with a blunt keel. Color dark above ; 

 8 to 10 dusky greenish oblong spots along lateral line, between which 

 and below lateral line are traces of smaller spots ; a dusky shade over 

 opercle ; skin lining opercle and shoulder girdle dark, the black markings 

 surrounded by yellow ; adipose fin dark, edged with pale ; caudal not 

 barred, inner rays dusky ; pectorals and dorsal somewhat dusky ; other 



