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Family f'rij5s.cj!s.ntk[idj^e^ 



Gatalufas 

 Genus priacanthus Cuvier 

 Scales very small, 80 to 100 in the lateral line; body oblong, 

 more than twice as long as deep; preopercle with a spine at 

 -angle; interorbital area externally transversely convex, the 

 cranium itself transversely concave, the elevation being formed 

 of flesh; a conspicuous foramen in the interorbital area; lateral 

 line extending upward and backward from upper angle of gill 

 opening toward second dorsal spine, below which it changes its 

 course, following outline of back to end of dorsal fin, thence 

 "direct to middle of caudal; anal fin rather long, its rays about 

 III, 14; dorsal rays about X, 13. Species rather numerous, in 

 5the tropical seas. 



268 Priacanthus arenatus Ouv. & Val. 

 Catalwfa; Bigey^e 



■Priacanthus arenatus Ouvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Ill,, 101, 



1829, Brazil; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 971, 1883; 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. Si. Nat. Mus. 1237, 1896, pi. OXCV, 



fig. 511, 1900; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100. 1898, Woods 



Hole, Mass. 

 Friacanthus macrophtlialmus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Ill, 



97, 1829, based upon Anthias maGrophtJiaJ/nnis Bloch, an Asiatic species; 



GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 215, 1859; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 



16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 544, 1883. 



Body oblong, compressed, moderately long, its greatest depth 

 iabout one third of the total length without caudal; the caudal 

 peduncle slender, its least depth equal to length of snout. The 

 lead is rather short, about two sevenths of total without caudal ; 

 the snout is short, one fourth as long as the head, and two 

 thirds as long as the eye; the interorbital space is narrow and 

 convex; the posterior nostrils are in a common oblong opening 

 ivithin which is a septum considerably below the surface; gill 

 rakers 20 to 23; the maxillary is broad posteriorly and reaches- 

 to below the front of the pupil; the lower jaw projects consider- 

 :ably; preopercle with an oblique point at its angle; opercle with 

 :a flat pointed spine, not projecting. Dorsal spines all slender, 

 the first only one half as long as the last and two ninths as 



