WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW TO CATCH FISH 



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NEOM^NIS APODUS." 



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Snapper ; " Head 2% ; depth 2%. D. X, 14 ; A. Ill, 8 ; 



Schoolmaster; scales (5) 6-42 to 45-13 ; 36 pores in lateral line. 

 JI- Body comparatively deep, moderately compressed, 



the back considerably elevated ; profile almost straight from snout to 

 nape, the nuchal region rather convex ; snout unusually long and 

 pointed, its outline before eye a little depressed, its length 2-f- in 

 head ; eye moderate, 4*/3 in head ; interorbital space flattish or gently 

 convex, 5}4 in head; mouth large, maxillary reaching front of orbit, 

 2f in head ; upper jaw with a narrow band of villiform teeth, outside 

 of which is a single "series of larger teeth ; 4 canines in front of 

 upper jaw ; 1 of them on each side very large, almost as long as 

 pupil ; lower jaw with a narrow villiform band in front only, and an 

 enlarged series outside, these largest on side of jaw, where some of 

 them are somewhat canine-like ; tongue with a single large oval patch 

 of teeth, its length more than twice its width ; teeth on vomer form- 

 ing an arrow-shaped patch with backward prolongation on median 

 line, the length of which is twice the width of the arrow-patch in 

 front. Gill rakers rather short and thick, the longest about y$ 

 diameter of eye about 9 on lower part of arch. Preopercle with its 

 posterior margin directed somewhat obliquely forward, usually very 

 weakly emarginate, finely serrate above, almost entire at the angle. 

 Scales large, decidedly larger than in N. jocu ; the series below the 



