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brown; caudal whitish in the middle. Total length 6i inches. 

 Martinique; known only from the type, the above description of which 

 we copy from Boulenger. (Jlavescens, yellowish.) 



Serranns flavesceiis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vr, 506, 1830, Martinique; Jon- 

 DAN & FIGENMANN, I. c. t 408, 1890; BOULENQER, Cat., i, 292. 



1603. PRIONODES LUCIOPERCANUS* (Poey). 



Head 3 in length; depth 3J. D. X, 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 7-70-20. 

 Body elongate, moderately compressed ; cranium depressed, with a single 

 crest; snout sharp ; lower jaw very strongly projecting; eye large, much 

 shorter than snout ; top of head naked ; caudal deeply forked ; dorsal 

 spines moderate, the third highest. Color clear brown with larger, darker 

 spots or bars on the sides; fins pale, more or less tinged with orange. 

 Coast of Cuba, apparently very rare, only the original type known (at 

 Cambridge) examined by us. (luciopercanus, resembling Lucioperca, the 

 Pike Perch, a European genus of Percidce.) 



Serranus luciopercanus, POEY, Memoriae, i, 56, pi. 9, fig. 1, 1851, Havana; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 



I. c., 410, 1890; Boulenger, Cat., i, 294. 

 Centropristis luciopercanus, GUNTHER, Cat., i, 84, 1869; VAILLANT & BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. au 



Mexique, 1874, pi. v, fig. 1. 

 Mentiperca hiciopercana, POEY. Synopsis, 281, 1868. 



1604. PRIONODES STILBOSTIGMA, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 3; depth 3|. D. X, 12; A. Ill, 7 ; scales 8-58-18. Body elongate 

 elliptical, less slender than in Prionodes luciopercanus] back not much ele- 

 vated; anterior profile straight from tip of snout to front of dorsal. 

 Snout sharp, 3 in head, lower jaw considerably projecting, mandible 3| 

 in head. Mouth rather large; maxillary reaching nearly to middle of 

 pupil, 2f in head. Eye large, a little shorter than snout, 4 in head. 

 Interorbital space very slightly concave, ridged. Teeth small, anterior 

 teeth of front row in both jaws slightly enlarged ; posterior teeth of 

 lower jaw also enlarged ; vomerine teeth in a V-shaped patch. Preopercle 

 finely serrate, the lower teeth a little coarser, the margin evenly rounded. 

 Opercle ending in three spines, of which the middle one is considerably 

 the largest ; membrane extending beyond spines. Gill rakers moderately 

 long and slender, about 9 developed. Scales small, firm, ctenoid ; 11 rows 



* Three specimens from Martinique in the Paris Museum have the following characters: Dor- 

 sal X, 12; anal III, 7; scales 8 to 10-85 to 90-25 to 29, pores 56 to 59. Depth of body 3^ to 3% 

 times in total length; length of head 3 times. Snout longer than diameter of eye, which is 3% 

 times in the length of head; interorbital width 6 to 7 times in length of head; lower jaw 

 strongly projecting, with feeble canine teeth on the sides; maxillary extending to below anterior 

 third or center of eye, the width of its distal extremity diameter of eye; snout and vertex 

 naked, cheeks and opercle scaly; preopercle finely serrated, the seme coarser at the angle and 

 obsolete on the lower border; opercular spines strong. Gill rakers longer than gill fringes, 15 

 or 16 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal originating above base of pectoral; the spines 

 increasing in. size to the fourth or fifth, which equals about to \ length of head, and exceeds 

 longest soft rays; no well-marked notch between the spinotis and soft portions of the fin. Pec- 

 toral obtusely pointed, as long as ventral, % length of head. Third anal spine longest, about as 

 long as third dorsal. Caudal deeply cmarginate, upper lobe the longer. Purplish, with reddish- 

 brown irregular spots or marblings; fins yellow, spinous dorsal partly purple ; upper and lower 

 caudal lobeg bordered with purple. Total length, 8 inches, Caribbean Sea. 



