Jordan and Ever mann. Fishes of North America. 1345 



portion of the supraoccipital. Supraoccipital crest making a sharp angle 

 over the eye, with a porous, gibbous portion of the frontal bones. Inter- 

 haiinal spine having the peculiar structure seen in Calamus. Antrorse 

 spine before dorsal attached directly to the fourth interneural, no down- 

 ward process being evident. One species, found in rather deep water. 

 (orpvvri'ip, one who stirs up or whips, from orpvva), to stir; from the long 

 spine.) 



1717. OTRYNTER CAPKINUS (Bean). 



Head 3 ; depth 2. D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 12 ; scales 5-50-15. Body subovate, 

 the back anteriorly much elevated, the depth about half the length to base 

 of caudal ; anterior profile steep and straightish, convex on nape and above 

 eye; temporal crest rudimentary, persisting in a swelling on the basal por- 

 tion of the supraoccipital bone; supraoccipital crest making a sharp angle 

 over eye with a porous, gibbous portion of the frontal bones; snout short, 

 about 2 in head; eyelarge, a little less than width of preorbital, about 3. 

 in head; anterior teeth of jaws small, in close-set band, the outer series a 

 little enlarged, compressed, and lanceolate, much as in Stenotomus chrysops; 

 molars in two rows; dorsal spines very broad and fiat; scales on the ante- 

 rior part of body much enlarged; anterior row of scales on cheek much 

 enlarged, extending to level of pupil, about 12 scales in the first series; 

 scaly sheath at base of soft dorsal and anal very conspicuous; pectoral a 

 little longer than head, 2^ in body ; caudal fin little forked, the middle ray 

 about If in longest ray. First and second dorsal spines very short, their 

 length about 3 in eye; third, fourth, and fifth more or less filamentous, the 

 third longer than head. Frontal bones gibbous and porous ; antrorse spine 

 attached directly to the iuterneural, no downward projecting part evident. 

 Color light olive ; silvery below ; the young with faint, very narrow darker 

 bars. Deep waters off the west coast of Florida; as yet known only from 

 numerous examples taken from the stomachs of snappers (Neomcenis) and 

 groupers (Epinepkelus} on the Florida snapper banks, (caprinm, like a 

 goat, the species having been sent in under the name " goat-head porgy," 

 which was a misunderstanding of the name "jolt-head porgy," which is 

 Calamus bajonado.) 



Stenotomus caprinus, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 426, Snapper Banks off Pensacola 



(Type, No. 30795. Coll. Silas Stearns) ; JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 507. 

 Argyrops caprinus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 929. 



551. STENOTOMUS, Gill. 



Stenotomus, GILL, Canadian Naturalist, August, 1865 (argyrops). 



This genus is close to Calamus, having the same quill-like interha3mal 

 bones, the flattened incisors and autrorse dorsal spine mainly distinguish- 

 ing it; temporal crest obsolete; frontal bones not gibbous nor porous; 

 antrorse spine attached to the fourth interneural by a down ward -project- 

 ing spine about thrice as long as the spine; lateral crest nowhere coalescing 

 with the supraoccipital crest; interorbital area flattish, with two low 

 ridges, a small foramen in each of these above front of pupil ; interorbital 

 area much contracted anteriorly ; a strongly projecting prefroutal process, 



