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cates, however, the large preopercuhir flap and the long pectoral, — 
p)oints in entire agreement witli my Italian material. Thus Anila 
wiherhi\s must he erased from the Xortli Amrrican fauna. 
Named for Samuel Powell, who collected the type and other rare 
fishes at Newport, during the fifties. 
Serranidae. 
Roccus lineatus (Bloch). — Connecticut River. 
Morone americana (Gmelin). — Boston Harbor, Mount Desert, 
South Naples (Griffiths), Androscoggin Lake, Maine (Morse), New- 
port. 
Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes). 
Ilyporthodus flavicauda Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18G1, 
p. 98. Newport, Rhode Island. 
The type of H. flavicauda Gill and small examples from Katama 
Bay. Martha's Vineyard, examined. 
Garrupa nigrita (Holbrook). — Katama Bay. 
Mycteroperca interstitialis (Poey). — Katama Bay. 
Centropristis striatus (Linne). — Woods Hole and Newport. 
Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitchill). — Newport. 
Haemulidae. 
Orthopristis kendalli, sp. nov. 
Fig. 5. 
Head 2f ; depth 2f ; D. XI, I, 16; A. Ill, 12; P. i, 17; V. 1, 5; scales 
50 in lateral line to caudal base, and 8 more on latter; 6 scales above 
lateral line to origin of spinous dorsal; and 14 below to origin of spin- 
ous anal; 32 predorsal scales; head width 2| in its length; head depth 
at occiput about l^-; snout 4; eye 3|; maxillary 3j; interorbital 43-; 
fourth dorsal spine 2; third branched dorsal ray 2|-; second anal 
spine 2j; second anal ray 2j; least depth of caudal peduncle 3|; 
pectoral 1^; ventral If. 
Body oblong, compressed, deepest at ventral origin, predorsal 
