448 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The type of Mesoprion campechanus examined by us at Havana is a 
stuffed skin of a young fish apparently belonging to this species. In 
this specimen the eye is larger than it should be in a red snapper of that 
size, it being, as Poey has correctly stated, 4 in head. This large size 
is, however, probably due to the shrinkage of the orbitin drying. Poey 
also counts “65 scales above the lateral line and 53 below,” a larger 
number than others count in this species. This difference is doubtless 
dependent on the method of counting. 
The type of Lutjanus blackfordi is of course the present species, and 
the first good description of the species is that published by Goode & 
Bean under this name. We are forced, however, to adhere to our 
original view, that the name campechanus certainly belongs to the same 
fish, and the still older name aya is as well authenticated as the names 
given by Bloch are likely to be. We can not therefore make use of the 
name blackfordi as the specific name of the red snapper. 
14, LUTJANUS ANALIS. (Mutton-fish; Pargo; Pargo Criollo.) 
Anthias quartus rondeleti (Mutton-fish), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, 1743. 
Mesoprion analis Cuyv. & Val., U, 452, 1828 (San Domingo); Poey, Memorias, u, 146, 
1860, tab. 13, fig. 9 (Cuba); Poey, Repertorio, 1, 266, 1867 (Cuba); Poey, 
Synopsis, 294, 1868 (Cuba). 
Lutjanus analis, Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 29 (Cuba); Jordan, Proc. U.S. N. M. i884, 
125 (Key West); Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. an Mexique, 1881, 119, pl. v; 
Jordan & Swain, 1. c.; Jordan, |. c., 1889, 648 (St. Lucia); Jordan, 1. c., 
1890, 319 (Bahia). 
Mesoprion sobra Cuy. & Val., U, 453, 1828 (Martinique); Guichenot, in Ramon de 
la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Poiss., 22; Giinther, 1, 209. 
Mesoprion isoodon Cuy. & Val., rx, 443, 1833 (San Domingo). 
Mesoprion isodon, Giinther, 1, 1859, 206 (copied). 
Mesoprion vivanus Giinther, 1, 268, 1859 (Jamaica, Bahia; not of Cuy. & Val.). 
Lutjanus vivanus, Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 1869, 470 (New Providence,St. Croix). 
? Mesoprion rosaceus Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1x, 317, 1870 (Cuba). 
?Lutjanus rosaceus Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 30. 
Habitat: Pensacola to Brazil. 7 
Etymology: Analis, from the elevated anal fin. 
This species is rather common at Key West, where, as elsewhere in 
the West Indies, it is known as mutton-fish. At Havana it is the 
pargo (par excellence) or pargo criollo. Itis perhaps the most important 
food-fish of the Havana markets, being always abundant and its flesh 
always healthful. It reaches a large size, and its flesh is fairly flavored, 
although not very delicate. 
The names analis and sobra of Cuvier & Valenciennes seem to belong 
to this species without question. Mesoprion isodon is identified by 
Vaillant with Z. analis on comparison of typical examples. Lutjanus 
rosaceus is described as a distinct species from a large specimen'27$ 
inches in length. The only tangible distinction which we find in the 
long description is that the eye is one-sixth the length of the head, 
while in ZL. analis of the same size the eye is 84 in the head, We 
