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Tampa, nearly all of them being from the spewings of the speckled Hind, 

 EpinepTielus drummond-hayi. (From the Red Snapper or Vivanei, then 

 called Lutjanus vivanus, from the stomach of which this species was 

 first taken.) 



Anthias vivanus, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 544, Snapper Banks of Pensa- 



cola, (Type, No. 36942. Coll. Silas Stearns); BOULENGKR, Cat., i, 323. 

 Pronotogrammus vivanus, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 413, 1890. 



515. PRONOTOGRAMMUS, Gill. 



Pronoiogrammus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 81 (multifascialus). 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with rather large, ctenoid scales; 

 lateral line running very high, close to the dorsal fin; top of head and 

 maxillary naked ; mouth short, oblique, the lower jaw projecting; maxil- 

 lary very broad, without supplemental bone ; canine teeth usually present 

 both in front and on sides of jaws ; no movable teeth ; tongue toothless ; 

 posterior processes of premaxillaries extending to between the frontals, 

 which have a deep fossa in front; supraoccipital crest very high, not 

 encroaching on the short, convex, smooth area on top of head, which is 

 more or less depressed; parietal crest feeble; a transverse ridge behind 

 frontals between posterior borders of orbits and before supraoccipital 

 crest. Gill rakers very long, slender, and close-set. Preopercle angular, 

 with prominent teeth. Dorsal with 10 spines, some of them filamentous ; 

 anal fin short, with 7 or 8 soft rays ; caudal deeply forked, its lobes pro- 

 duced; pectorals obtuse, nearly symmetrical, of 17 or 18 rays; ventrals 

 long, inserted before axil of pectoral. Color red. Beautifully colored 

 American fishes, closely allied to the European genus Anthias, but differ- 

 ing in the naked top of head and maxillary, and in the form of the body. 

 (Trpo, before; vwrof, back; ypa/ufj.??, line; in allusion to the upward curve 

 of the lateral line.) 



a. Second anal spine shorter than third; body elongate, the head thick, the lower outline 



nearly straight; tip of lower jaw fitting into a notch of upper, not entering profile; 



angle of preopercle slightly projecting, its seme coarser; dorsal emarginate, the spines 



slender and pungent, the sixth longest, 3% in head, 1% times tenth; each spine with a 



short filament near its tip, as usual in this genus; caudal forked, the middle rays % the 



outer, which are not produced; scales large, ctenoid, extending forward from occiput 



on top of head to middle of orbit; scales on cheek in 6 rows. Rose red, silvery below, 



the fins light yellow; a dark spot above the middle of each eye and 2 V-shaped olive 



marks behind head, the apex of the one at the nape, the other at front of dorsal. 



Scales 2%-38. EOS, 1611. 



aa. Second anal spine longer than third; dorsal spines rapidly increasing to the fourth, which 



is about 7 in length of body, thence decreasing to the last. Color reddish, the young 



with numerous dark rufous bands, descending nearly to the middle. Scales 2-45-12. 



(Adult unknown.) MULTIFASCIATUS, 1612. 



1611. PRONOTOGRAMMTJS EOS, Gilbert. 



Head 21 to 2; depth 2| to 3; eye very large, 3, much longer than snout. 

 D. X, 15; A. Ill, 8; scales 2f-38-x. Body elongate, tapering regularly 

 backward from shoulder, the lower outline nearly straight ; head thick ; 

 mouth terminal, oblique, the mandible laterally included, its tip fitting 

 into an emargination of premaxillaries, not entering profile. Maxillary 



