Jordan and Evermann . Fishes of North A merica . 2171 



head and more than twice length of longest dorsal spine, 7 rows of scales 

 between lateral line and origin of second dorsal, 19 rows between lateral 

 line and origin of anal, 50 pores in lateral line, and about 93 oblique rows 

 of scales can be counted; scales on breast conspicuously smaller than the 

 rest. Color in alcohol,.light brownish yellow above, lighter below ; spin- 

 ous dorsal with a black blotch between the fourth and fifth spines, its 

 length about that of eye ; the membrane connecting the spines of dorsal 

 with faint dusky shades in several places; membrane connecting the last 

 3 or 4 rays of second dorsal slightly dusky ; pectoral with 2 broad dark 

 areas, separated and surrounded by lighter, the dark markings on the 

 pectorals not taking the form of bands, but having their greatest length 

 nearly parallel with the axis of the fish. Length 4 inches. Trinidad. 

 (Goode & Bean.) (Named for Dr. Tarleton H. Bean.) 



Prionotus beanii, GOODE, in GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 468, pi. cxn, fig. 383, 

 18%, off Trinidad, in 73 fathoms. (Type, No. 39318. Coll. Albatross.) 



2499. PRIOXOTUS TRIBULTJS (Cuvier). 

 (BIG-HEADED GURNARD.) 



Head 21 ; depth 5 (3 to 4 in young). D. IX or X-12 or 13 ; A. 11 ; P. 13-J-3 ; 

 scales 49 (tubes). Body robust; head shorter and broader, snout shorter, 

 and bones more strongly striate than in P. evolans; intcrorbital space 

 deeply concave ; occipital and supraorbital spines very strong and much 

 compressed; band of palatine teeth as long as eye; gill rakers shortish, 9 

 below angle; membranaceous edge of opercle scaly; preopercular spine 

 with a smaller one at its base, which is high and sharp ; cheek bone with a 

 spine (small in the adult, larger in the young) at the center of radiation; 

 temporal ridge with 2 bluutish spines; bones of the head very sharply 

 striate; young with 4 sharp, knife-like spines on side of cheek and 

 snout, in a line before the preocular spine, these nearly disappearing with 

 age ; maxillary about 2-J- in head ; sides without dark longitudinal stripe. 

 Gill rakers slender in the young, becoming shorter and thicker with age, 

 about 10 developed on lower part of arch; head broad, the spines on its 

 upper surface very prominent, all of them more or less compressed and 

 knife-like, especially in the young. Second dorsal spine 2| in head; pec- 

 torals moderate, 2 in body in the adult, 2 in the young. Coloration in 

 life, light olive green, the head and body everywhere reticulated with 

 dark olive green, in definite patterns, the dark lines on the head conspic- 

 uous, arranged in a series of curves and concentric circles; the dark 

 streaks on the body mostly undulating and ascending backward ; a dif- 

 fuse band along side of bright orange; belly white; 2 faint diffuse dark 

 bands downward and forward from soft dorsal, the hindmost ascend- 

 ing on the fin; a fainter band on spinous dorsal; spinous dorsal reddish, 

 clouded with darker; a large dark blotch, not ocellated, between fifth and 

 sixth spines ; second dorsal translucent reddish, with darker spots ; anal 

 similar, paler, the spots almost obsolete; caudal reddish, with 3 darker 

 bands; ventrals plain light reddish; pectorals light, clear green on the 

 front side, grayish behind; with about 5 somewhat irregular dark cross 



