Jordan and JEvermann. Fishes of North America. 1115 



the others ; teeth on vomer and palatines compressed, in a single row ; 

 preopercle entire; opercle with 2 flat points. Dorsals well separated, 

 the spines slender, the longest about half head. Soft dorsal and anal 

 similar, concave in outline, the longest ray half head. Caudal forked ; 

 pectorals and ventrals short, the former If in head; ventrals inserted 

 under the pectorals. Scales large, caducous, with entire edges; head 

 scaly except the lips; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal scaly. Air bladder 

 slender; pyloric cceca 6. Violet brown, paler below. (Poey.) Coast of 

 Cuba in deep water: reaches a weight of 14 pounds, the general appear- 

 ance suggesting that of the Barracuda, (oculatiw, big-eyed.) 



Latebrus oculattts, POEY, Memoriae, n, 168, with plate, 1860, Cuba. 

 Scombrops oculatus, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 236, 1895. 



489. HYPOCLYDONIA, Goode & Bean. 



Hypoclydonia, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 236, 1895, (bella). 



Body covered with thin, deciduous, cycloid scales. Entire head scaly, 

 with the exception of the angle of the preoperculum, but the scales of the 

 head are deeply embedded in the skin and are covered by minute pores, 

 so that their outlines are almost entirely concealed. Eye large. Mouth 

 moderately large ; the upper jaw slightly protractile. Teeth in the pre- 

 maxillary minute, in broad bands, which are separated at the sym- 

 physis ; mandible with a marked concavity in front on each side of the 

 symphysis, this concavity being armed with a band of minute teeth ; 4 

 small canine-like teeth in an irregular group at the symphysis ; 5 addi- 

 tional canines on the mandible, increasing in size backward and con- 

 tinued behind by a short, narrow band of minute teeth ; minute teeth 

 on the vomer in a triangular patch ; palatine teeth in bands, which are 

 broadest in front. Anterior nostril small, circular, not tubular; pos- 

 terior nostril in a long, wedge-shaped slit. Maxillary dilated posteri- 

 orly. Lower lip well developed, broadly attached to the under surface 

 of the maxilla. Preoperculum minutely serrated behind and below; 

 operculum with 2 thin, flat spines. Branchiostegals 7 ; gill rakers in 

 moderate number, rather stout ; a glandular organ in the upper angle of 

 the gill opening ; fins well developed, the spinous dorsal longer than the 

 second dorsal ; dorsal with 9, anal with 2, spines ; ventrals long ; scales 

 large, thin, cycloid, deciduous; lateral line high up, with a gradual curve 

 nearly following outline of back. This genus resembles Scombrops in 

 form and is closely related to it, but none of the vertical fins is scaly, 

 the tongue is toothless, and the soft dorsal and anal have few rays, (vno, 

 below; K^vduv, wave). 



1514. HYPOCLYDONIA BELLA, Goode & Bean. 



Head 3 ; depth 3 ; eye 3 in head. D. IX-I, 9 ; A. IV, 7 ; scales 2-29-7. 

 Snout as long as eye. Maxillary reaching nearly to below middle of 

 eye, its length of head. Spinous dorsal inserted over origin of pec- 

 toral ; the third and longest spine as long as the postorbital part of the 

 head; interspace between the 2 dorsals very short; longest ray of soft 



