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gray, mottled ; soft dorsal similarly and more distinctly marked; pec- 

 torals. anal, and caudal grayish, with sharply defined narrow blackish 

 bars, somewhat undulating; ventrals faintly barred, mostly black. 

 South Atlantic coasts of the United States, in rather deep water ; not 

 common ; recorded from Beaufort, Charleston, Pensacola Snapper Banks, 

 and Big Gasparilla ; a small and very pretty species. (Here described 

 from a specimen, No. 30859, U. S. Nat. Mus., 3 inches long, taken by Jor- 

 dan & Stearns from the Snapper Banks, oft' Pensacola. (subligarius, wear- 

 ing a truss, in allusion to the white cross band.) 



s, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 120, Pensacola. 

 Serrantis ,</)// : / ( !/-//'.s-, GOODF. & BEAX, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 238; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 274, 1882; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 535, 1883; JOBDAN, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1884, 39; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 405, 1890. 



1606. DULES DISPILURUS (GUnthcr). 



Head 2; depth 2f. D. X, 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 5-45-14. Preoperculum 

 rounded, finely serrated behind, entire below, without projecting angle. 

 Eye of moderate size, f length of head. Diameter of eye much more than 

 width of the interorbital space, but somewhat less than the extent of 

 the snout, contained 4 times in the length of the head. Opercles scaly ; 

 the scales on the preoperculum in 7 or 8 series, much smaller than those on 

 the operculum and rest of the body. Cleft of the mouth oblique, the 

 upper maxillary reaching to the vertical from the center of the eye ; 

 preorbital somewhat wider than the maxillary. Preoperculum rounded, 

 finely serrated behind, entire below; suboperculum and interoperculum 

 entire. Operculum with 3 flat short points, the upper and lower of which 

 are concealed by the scales, the middle one being the longest and sharp- 

 est. Dorsal fin commencing just above the extremity of the operculum; 

 itsspinous portion scarcely lower, but longer than the soft; the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth spines are the longest, more than i the length of the head 5 

 the first spine is very short, half as long as the diameter of the eye ; soft 

 dorsal rounded ; the anterior and middle rays the longest, the sixth being 

 not quite twice as long as the last spine ; caudal fin truncated, slightly 

 rounded at the angles, about % of the total length ; anal with the soft 

 portion narrow and deeper than the dorsal fin; second anal spine strong 

 and long, g the length of the head; third anal spine much longer thun 

 the first ; pectoral long, rounded, reaching to above vent, of the length 

 of the head ; ventrals not reaching to vent. Teeth villiform ; several 

 larger teeth in the outer series of each jaw ; vomerine and palatine 

 teeth in narrow bands ; tongue toothless. Brownish olive, with indistinct 

 darker cross bands extending on the dorsal fin ; a broad white cross band 

 on the belly, before the vent, extending upward to the level of the pec- 

 toral fin ; a small deep-black spot behind the top of the last dorsal spine, 

 on the middle of the first two dorsal rays; several other irregular more or 

 less distinct spots on the dorsal fin corresponding to the cross bands on 

 the body ; the soft vertical fins with transverse series of small brown 

 spots : a small black round spot above and below on the root of the caudal 



