APODAL FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
597 
tooth slightly serrate behind ; 
tail shorter than rest of body ; 
head 3£ in trunk.] (Gunther.) 
Madeirknsis, 31. 
7,6. Color brown above; lighter below, willi irregular light-yellowish spots, 
variable in size and sometimes 
so thickly placed that the 
ground work appears as brown 
reticulations; dorsal fin with 
large dark spots on the edge, 
the spots often running togeth- 
er so as to form a black band 
(or sometimes obsolete) ; anal 
fin with a dark edge. Teeth 
all uniserial in jaws, rather 
large and strong, the posterior 
edge of the larger teeth serrate, 
like the teeth of a shark ; vomer 
with few small teeth or none; 
jaws nearly or quite closing; 
head 2 to 2£ in trunk, 3£ to 4 £ 
in tail; eye 1£ to If in snout; 
cleft of mouth '2\ to 3 in the 
head ; tail a little longer than 
rest of body Ocellatus, 32. 
x. Edge of dorsal and anal with con- 
fluent black blotches, formiug 
a dark margin to the fin, the 
anal chiefly black. 
y. Dark ground color forming retic- 
ulations around roundish and 
polygonal pale spots of various 
sizes, these larger on the tail, 
the spots everywhere much 
wider than the interspaces. 
Var. Saxicola, 326. 
yy. Dark ground color covered with 
rounded whitish spots, which 
are not so wide as the inter- 
spaces, the spots subequal. 
z. Spots of moderate size, much 
larger thau pupil ; rounded aud 
yellowish; -cheeks coarsely 
spotted Var. Ocellatus, 32 a. 
zz. Spots very small, stellate, not 
much larger than pupil ; spots 
whitish; cheeks finely spotted 
like the rest of the body ; body 
slender, -a dusky shade along 
sides; fins chiefly black. 
Var. Nigromarginatus, 32 c. 
xx. Edge of dorsal and aual without 
black ; body dark, with small 
rounded whitish spots, much as 
invar, ocellatus. 
Var. Januarius , 32d. 
