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Ventrals large, thoracic, I, 5, close together in advance of base 

 of pectoral, joined to belly by a membrane which incloses a 

 groove. No axillary process and spine strong. 



Carnivorous fishes of tropical seas, chiefly in deep water and 

 mostly rose-colored in life. One species straying to our shores. 



Genus Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker. 



The Rough Catalufas. 



Pseudopriacanthus altus (Gill). 



Plate 52. 



Head 2^/3; depth iV?; D- X, 11; A. Ill, 10; scales 44 in 

 lateral series to base of caudal, 3 more on latter; about 35 pores 

 in lateral hue; snout 3J^ in head measured from tip of upper 

 jaw; eye 2^/10 ; maxillary 1 3/^ ; interorbital space 3^^ ; seventh 

 dorsal spine i^ ; third dorsal ray i^; third anal ray i J4 ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3 ; pectoral i J4 ; ventral spine 

 i^. Body deep, compressed, nearly ellipsoid. Caudal peduncle 

 small, about as deep as long, compressed. Head deep, strongly 

 compressed, upper profile steep and nearly straight. Snout short, 

 broad. Eye large, circular. Mouth large, obliquely vertical, and 

 mandible projecting. Maxillary oblique, reaching middle of orbit 

 and greatest expansion about half of same. Teeth in jaws villi- 

 form, outer series enlarged, and those of larger size on mandible 

 larger than outer series above. Subopercle, preopercle, opercle 

 and preorbital with serrate edges. Two small spines at angle of 

 preopercle and one on opercle. Gill-rakers 9 -j- 18, slender and 

 as long as filaments. Head and body covered with rough scales, 

 smaller on former and thick on maxillary. Lateral line strongly 

 arched toward base of fifth dorsal spine, then sloping down to 

 caudal peduncle. Dorsal begins close behind posterior margin of 

 orbit, and posterior spines highest. Anal spines long and subequal. 

 Pectoral rounded, reaching anal. Ventral reaching base of third 

 anal spine. Color faded brownish, perhaps bright red in life. 

 Ventrals blackish on outer portions. Length nearly 3 inches. At- 

 lantic City. 



