FISHES OF NEW YORK 551 



Lutjanus hhickfordi Jokdan & Gilbert. Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Miis. 549, 1883; 



Bean, 19tli Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 263, pi. XVI, fig. 20, 1890. . 

 Lutjanus cam peach la mis Jordan & Gilbert, op. cit. 971 (not Mesoprion 



canvpeacliamis Poey, Mem. Cub. II, 149, 1860); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. VII, 35, 1884. 

 Neomaenis aya Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1264, 1898, 



pi. OXCVII, fig. 516,1900 (not Bodiamis aya Block, Ichthyol. 227, 1790); 



H. M. Smith. Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, lOO, 1898. 

 Neomaenis Uackfordi H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 33, 1901. 



Body much compressed; its upper profile ascending from the 

 snout, with a slight concavity in front of eye, to the origin of 

 the spinous dorsal, thence descending in a long curve to the 

 base of the caudal; under profile much less arched, elaws equal. 

 Greatest hight of body equals length of head, which is three 

 eighths of total length without caudal. Least depth of caudal 

 peduncle equals one third of the distance from the snout to the 

 pectoral. Preoperculum finely and evenly serrated, except at 

 the angle, where the denticulations are coarser; a slight emar- 

 gination above the angle, in which is received an elevation upon 

 the interopercle, and two shallower emarginations above. 

 Maxillary not reaching to below front of orbit; mandible not 

 below middle of orbit. Lingual teeth in two patches. Vomer- 

 ine patch a quadrilateral figure, with concave sides, and with 

 the longest sides posteriorly. Palatine patches somewhat 

 spatulate, broadest posteriorly. Eye circular, its diameter con- 

 tained seven and one third times in length of head. Snout 

 nearly equal to maxillar^^ Mandible equal to one half hight 

 of body at ventrals. Distance of spinous dorsal from snout about 

 three times length of snout; length of its base about equal to pec- 

 toral. Longest dorsal spine three times as long as the first, and 

 twice as long as the second anal spine; it is nearl}^ as long as 

 the snout. The longest dorsal ray (sixth) is contained three 

 and one fourth times in the length of the head. The anal base 

 is a little longer than the mandible; the first anal spine is one 

 half as long as the second, which is one third as long as the 

 ventral fin; the third spine is slenderer and slightly longer than 

 the second; the longest ray of the anal is twice as long as the 

 snout. Caudal much emarginate, crescent-shaped; the middle 



