' FISHES OP NEW YORK 679 



335 Prionotus strigatus Cuv. & Yal. 

 Red-ioinged Sea Robin 



Trigla Uneata Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 430, pi. IV, fig. 4, 



1815; not Trigla Uneata Bloch. 

 Trigla strigata Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. II, 2, 161, 1829, New York. 

 Prionotus Uneatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 45, pi. 4, fig. 12, 1842; 



GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 192, 1860. 

 Prionotus evolans var. Uneatus. Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



736, 1883. 

 Prionotus evolans Goode, Fish & Fish. Ind. IT. S. I, 255, pi. 71, 1884; not 



Trigla evolans Linnaeus. 

 Prionotus strigatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist Nat. Poiss. IV, 86, 1829; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Bull.. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 974, 1883; Bean, 



19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 250, 1890; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



IX, 371, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 106, 1898; Jorda^ 



& Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. II, 2167, 1898. 



The length of the head is contained two and two thirds times 

 in the length of the body, which is four and one half times the 

 depth of the bod^^ The length of the eye is contained two and 

 one half times in the length of the snout. Gill rakers rather 

 long and slender, 15 below angle; band of palatine teeth wide, 

 shorter than eye; spines on head moderate in size, compressed, 

 the one at upper posterior angle of orbit little developed; mem- 

 branous edge of opercle scaly; ventral reaching to front of 

 anal; pectoral reaching past middle of soft dorsal and anal, from 

 one and seven eighths to two and one fourth in length. 

 D. X-12; A. 11; Lat. 1. about 60. 



Olive brown above, mottled and spotted with blackish; whit- 

 ish below; a narrow streak along the lateral line, with a broader 

 one below it, which terminates behind in a series of spots and 

 blotches; lower jaw and branchiostegal membranes sometimes 

 bright orange yellow; pectorals blackish edged with olivaceous 

 and orange, with numerous transverse dark lines; membrane 

 of spinous dorsal with a black blotch betwe,en third and sixth, 

 spines; soft dorsal plain or with two black blotches at base; 

 ventrals and anal orange; pectoral appendages slender, dusky. 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras; common northward. Perhaps a 

 distinct species but seeming to vary into P. evolans. 



