Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1443 



sal spines lie in advance of the neural spine of the second vertebra ; 4 

 interneurals giving attachment to dorsal spines lie crowded between the 

 neural spines of the second and third vertebra?, the anterior one being 

 very broad; 3 interneurals follow interposed between the third and fourth 

 neurals, and 3 more between the fourth and fifth. (Gilbert.) (illecebra, 

 a spur. ) 



Stellifer illecebrotus, GILBERT MS., Fishes of Panama, 1898, Panama. (Coll. Gilbert.) 



Subgenus STELLIFER. 

 1824. STELLIFER STELLIFER (Bloch). 



Head 34 ; depth 3| ; eye rather large, 4 in head ; snout very short and 

 blunt, 4, 1 ; ; I >. XI-I, 19; A. II, 8; scales 48. Mouth large, oblique, the max- 

 illary 2 to 21 in length of head; reaching posterior border of eye; snout 

 very short, little projecting; preopercle with 3 or 4 spines next the angle, 

 divergent, considerably larger than the others; lowermost spinule of pre- 

 opercle not directed downward; pectoral fin long, 1 in head; body deep, 

 compressed ; head short, deep, more compressed than in related species, 

 the intororbital space less depressed, its width 3^ in head, the supraocular 

 ridges less prominent; anterior profile evenly convex; the preinaxillary 

 on the level of lower part of eye; proopercle very convex, forming an arc 

 of a circle; gill rakers long and slender, x-\-l8, the longest f eye; dorsal 

 spines slender, rather low, the longest If in head; second anal spine long 

 and rather stout, 1 in head; caudal fin pointed. Color dull silvery, the 

 fins not very dark. Coasts of Guiana and Brazil, rather common; the 

 specimens above described from Bahia. (stellifer, star-bearing, from the 

 radiated suborbital.) 



Bodianus stellifer, BLOCK, Ichthyologia, pi. 231, 1790, Cape of Good Hope. 

 Corvina trispinosa, CUVIEH & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 109, 1830, Brazil ; 



Cayenne; STEINDACHNEK, Sciaenoiden Brasiliens, 14, 1863. 

 Kcicena (Stelliferus) stellifera, JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 540 (notes on type of 



trispinosa). 

 Stelliferus stellifer, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 394. 



1825. STELLIFER LANCEOLATUS (Holbrook). 



Head 3; depth 3; eye 4; snout 4*. D. XI-I, 20 to 23; A. II, 7 or 8; 

 scales 5-47 to 50-8. Interorbital width 3 in head; gill rakers 13-J-22, 

 about f length of eye ; pectoral short, about If in head, about as long as 

 ventral; second anal spine 2. Body rather slender; mouth moderate, 

 oblique, the maxillary not quite half length of head, extending just past 

 pupil; preinaxillary in front on level of lower margin of pupil. Teeth 

 above in broad bands, the outer row enlarged. Scales on head cycloid. 

 Dorsal spines slender, the first two somewhat stronger, the highest about 2 

 in head ; caudal long, lanceolate, li in head ; second anal spine little shorter 

 than highest dorsal spine; iirst ventral ray filiform. Color grayish olive 

 above, silvery below ; fins all nearly uniform dusky, the ventrals margined 

 with white; many black dots along the sides; base of anal fin and inner 

 lining of opercle dusky. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United 



