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WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW TO CATCH FISH 



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Snapper ; 

 Mutton-fish ; 

 Pargo ; 

 Pargo Criollo 



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84. "NEOM^ENIS ANALIS." 517 1265 



" Head 2fi \ depth 2^. D. X, 14 ; A. Ill, 8 ; 

 scales (7) 10-67-17; pores 51. Body rather deep 

 and compressed, the back rather strongly elevated, 

 profile steep and nearly straight from snout to nape ; 

 snout rather long and pointed, 2f in head ; eye rather small, 5-f in 

 head in specimens a foot in length ; interorbital space gently convex, 

 5f in head ; occipital keel moderate ; preorbital very broad, its least 

 width 4 in head ; mouth moderate ; maxillary scarcely reaching front 

 of orbit, 24 in head ; upper jaw with a narrow band of villiform 

 teeth, outside of which is a single series of larger but small teeth ; 6 

 rather strong canines in front, 4 of them larger, about equaling in 

 length y 2 diameter of pupil ; lower jaw with a narrow villiform band 

 in front only and a series of larger teeth outside ; these unequal, 

 largest on side of jaw, some of them almost canine-like ; tongue with 

 a single very small patch of teeth on its middle, this wanting in 

 young examples ; teeth on vomer forming a broadly A-shaped patch, 

 without backward prolongation on median line. Gill rakers moderate, 

 Y? length of diameter of eye, about 8 on lower arch, with no rudi- 

 ments before them. Preopercle with its posterior margin almost 

 straight, slanting gently downward and forward, the notch broad and 

 very shallow ; edge of preopercle rather coarsely serrate, most so at 

 the angle ; scales small, the rows almost horizontal below the lateral 

 line, running backward and upward above ; tubes of lateral line 

 branched \ about 7 rows of scales on the cheeks ; 1 row on interop- 



