ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 



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conspicuous slightly wavy, longitudinal stripes of sky-blue, deepest 

 on the snout, each with a very narrow edge of dusky olive ; these 

 stripes on the head curving upward below eye, the first stripe below 

 eye forking near posterior margin of preopercle and inclosing an 

 oblong area of the ground color ; iris gilt, a dark spot under the 

 angle of the preopercle ; spinous dorsal edged and shaded with yel- 

 lowish, its membrane mostly bluish; soft dorsal yellowish, caudal 

 yellowish, broadly dusky at base, the degree of this duskiness being 

 variable ; mouth deep orange within ; pectorals pale yellowish ; anal 

 and ventrals deeper yellowish ; the young have more yellow on fins 

 and less on body, with traces of a dark caudal spot. The coloration 

 becomes fainter in spirits, the blue lines becoming gray." 



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HiEMULON PLUMIERI." 



Illustration. Page. 



532 1304 



Common Grunt ; Head 2fz ; depth Ifz ', eye small, 5 to 6 in 



Ronco Ronco ; head. D. XII, 16 ; A. Ill, 8 ; scales 5-50-17. Body 

 Ronco Arara. moderately elongate, the back elevated and some- 

 what compressed ; head long, the snout sharp and projecting, its 

 length 21 in head ; anterior profile more or less S-shaped, nearly 

 straight from tip of snout to before eye, there concave, and thence 

 gibbous to the front of dorsal, old specimens having the nape more 

 gibbous than young ones. Mouth very large, the gape curved ; max- 



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