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similar, but the inner ones larger than in upper jaw ; eye very large, its 

 diameter little less than half length of head; preorbital narrow, strongly 

 serrate; preopercle serrate, the serrse of the lower margin largest; no 

 spines at its angle ; subopercle and opercle serrate on their lower mar- 

 gins ; highest dorsal spines If in head ; anal spines graduated, the third 

 spine 2 in head ; ventrals scarcely reaching anal ; pectorals If in head ; 

 scales all extremely rough, very strongly ctenoid ; lateral line ascending 

 to below fifth dorsal spine, then descending to caudal peduncle, then 

 median to tail. Reddish, overlaid with plumbeous above; bright red 

 or crimson in life; all the fins except the pectorals edged with black ; 

 otherwise entirely plain (in spirits). West Indies, in rather deep 

 water, north to Pensacola and Charleston ; rare ; the very young stray- 

 ing in the Gulf Stream to Rhode Island. Here described from a speci- 

 men 11 inches long, the largest yet seen, taken at Charleston by Charles 

 C. Leslie. Very close to the Japanese species, Pseudopriacanthus niphonius, 

 (Cuvier & Valenciennes), the scales a little larger, (altus, high.) 



Priacanthus altus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 132 (very young specimen), Narragan- 



sett Bay; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 545. 

 Pseudopriacanthus altus, JORDAN & EIGENSIANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, 269; MORRISON, 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1889, 163; BOULENGEB, Cat., i, 359. 



