110 THE SHORE FISHES. 
maxillary 2; mandible 1.71; interorbital 6.31; dorsal XI, 153 (16); anal III; 
83 (9); scales downward and backward from front of spinous dorsal to lateral 
line 19, downward and backward from lateral line to front of anal 42, row above 
lateral line 100. 
Our specimen agrees very closely in color with Serranus socialis Giinther 
(loc. cit., taf. 8, fig. B), except that the spots on the head and body, and the bars 
formed by confluent spots are smaller, more numerous, and more or less present 
from tip of pectoral back to caudal, the interspaces forming narrow pale rivula- 
tions. 
Dermatolepis punctatus GILL. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, p.54. SnopGrass & Hetuer, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1905, 6, p. 368. 
Three examples from Acapulco, No. 3319, 6% inches long; No. 3320, 8% 
inches long and No. 3341, M. C. Z. 29638, 83 inches long. 
Prionodes fasciatus JENyYNs. 
Zool. Voy. Beagle, Fish., 1842, pt. 4, p. 47, pl. 9, fig. 1. Jorpan & EverMann, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 
1896, pt. 1, p. 1212. 
Seven specimens 23-43 inches long from Acapuleo. M. C. Z. 29435 (3 
specimens). 
In the key to the genera of Serranidae Jordan and Evermann (loc. cit., p. 
1129-1130) place Prionodes in a group said to have no depressible teeth; in the 
generic description it is stated that ‘‘there are no depressible teeth in jaws.” 
In our specimens some of the posterior premaxillary teeth and some of the 
lateral mandibular teeth are depressible. The prominence of the lower jaw 
varies somewhat; the caudal is slightly emarginate or truncate, and the upper 
rays somewhat produced, the prolongation varying somewhat in length. 
Paranthias furcifer (Cuvier & VALENCIENNES). 
JorpAN & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 1222. 
Serranus furcifer Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1828, 2, p. 196 (264). 
Seven specimens, Nos. 3244-47, 3258, M. C. Z. 29675, No. 3259, No. 3260, 
M. C. Z. 29699, 5% to 10% inches long from Panama. 
One hundred and four specimens 3x to 6% inches long from Toboguilla 
Island, Panama Bay. M. C. Z. 29553 (4 specimens). M. C. Z. 29636 (1 speci- 
men). 
Compared with a Clarion Island specimen, 2 or 3 inches longer than our 
largest specimen, the lower jaw in ours is a little more prominent; maxillary is a 
