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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Unfortunately, no life-color notes were taken of this species. In alcohol the type is olivaceous 
o. grayish on back, with narrow pale-bluish lines following the rows of scales upward and backward; 
body below lateral line yellowish-white, with about 3 broad indistinct bluish lines near middle of 
side; a large black blotch, somewhat smaller than eye, just above lateral line and below first 4 dorsal 
rays, this spot smaller and less conspicuous than in N. synagris) preorbital bluish with traces of 2 narrow 
bronze lines running forward and downward from eye; fins all pale-lemon; iris yellow. 
This species is related to N. synagris, but appears to differ in the larger eye, the greatly elevated 
back, longer pectoral, and in coloration. In N. synagris the upper caudal lobe is usually the longer, 
while in this species they are equal. 
Type, No. 49531, U. S. N. M., 11.5 inches long, obtained at Puerto Real, Porto Rico, January 25, 
1899, by Evermann & Marsh. 
Fig. 48 . — Neomxnis megcilophthalmus. 
131 . Neomsenis synagris (Linnaeus). “Manchego” ; “Mancheva” ; “Raiado” ; Lane Snapper. 
(Plate 22.) 
Head 2.65; depth 2.75 to 3; eye 4.5 to 5; snout 2.5 to 2.8; maxillary 2.4 to 2.7; mandible 2 to 2.2; 
interorbital 5 to 5.75; preorbital 4.5 to 5; D. x, 12; A. m, 8; scales 7-64 to 68-15, about 50 pores. 
Body oblong, compressed, the back moderately elevated, profile almost straight from snout to nape; 
occipital keel little prominent; maxillary reaching front of orbit; upper jaw with a narrow band of 
villiform teeth, outside of which is a single series of enlarged teeth; 4 (rarely 6) rather small canines 
in front, 2 of them larger; lower jaw with villiform band in front only, single row of larger teeth nearly 
equal in size, none of them canines; tongue with a single oval patch, its length more than twice its 
width; vomer with a \ or shaped patch of teeth, without backward prolongation on median line, 
or Avith only a very slight one. Gillrakers rather long, their length slightly more than half diameter 
of eye, about 5 + 9, and usually no rudiments before them. Preopercle with its posterior margin 
slanting downward and forward, the emargination broad and moderately deep; preopercle rather finely 
serrate above, with coarser teeth at angle. Scales rather small, rows almost horizontal below lateral 
line, above somewhat undulate, running upward and backward; tubes of lateral line simple; 6 toavs of 
scales on the cheek, 1 toav on interopercle, 1 on subopercle, and 6 on opercle; temporal region with a 
broad band of scales, arranged in several series; base of soft dorsal and anal scaly; dorsal spines rather 
weak and slender, outline of fin gently convex; fourth spine longest, 2.66 in head, tenth spine 3.6 in 
head; soft dorsal short, its margin somewhat angiilated, eighth ray longest, twice length of last ray and 
1.5 first, 2.4 in head; caudal moderately forked, upper lobe the longer, 1.5 length of middle rays, which 
are 2 in head; anal rather high, rounded in outline, its middle rays longest, 1.66 length of last ray, 2.57 
in head, first ray reaching middle of last ray Avhen fin is depressed; second anal spine stronger than third 
and of equal length, 3.66 in head; ventrals 1.75 in head; pectoral reaching front of anal, 1.25 in head. 
