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species, it is somewhat questionable if it is not mal a propos in. 

 this instance. In either case, however, their occurrence on our 

 coast is to be attributed to the Gulf Stream, so that they would 

 probably be nothing more than accidental stragglers. 

 Hcemulon formosum Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. 



Genus Anisotre:mus Gill. 



The Pork Fishes. 



Anisotremus virginicus (Linn^us). 



Plate 56, 



This may be identified by the outer portions of the vertical fins 

 being naked and with 10 or 11 branched rays. 



Included on the authority of Dr. Abbott, who met with an 

 example in the Trenton fish market, said to have been received 

 from Barnegat. He also stated that an occasional example has 

 been taken on our coast. A tropical American fish wandering 

 north in the Gulf Stream occasionally. 



Anisotremus virginicus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. 



Genus Orthopristis Girard. 



The Pig Fishes. 

 Orthopristis chrysopterus (Linnaeus). 



Plate 57- 

 Speckled Red Mouth. 



Head 2^/^ ; depth 3; D. XI, I, 16, i; A. Ill, 13, i; scales about 

 67 in lateral line to base of caudal, and 2 more on latter ; about 1 1 

 scales obliquely back from origin of spinous dorsal to lateral line ; 

 16 scales obliquely forward from origin of spinous anal to lateral 

 line; mandible about 2^ in head; snout 3^ in head measured 

 from tip of upper jaw; eye 3^ ; maxillary 3 ; fourth dorsal spine 

 2; eighth dorsal ray 2j^ ; third anal spine 3J^ ; third anal ray 2; 



