form enlarged row; double pair of short canines in front of 
each jaw, upper wider apart, and conines single in younger 
example, short canine little before middle along each man-~ 
dibular ramus; bands of small teeth on vomer and palatines, 
none on tongue, Nostrils close; front one about last fourth 
in snout. Interorbital little convex. Hind preopercle edge 
evenly denticulate, and 3 strong antrorse spines on lower 
edge; lower edges of subopercle and interopercle finely den- 
ticulate; median opercular spine most backward, closer to 
lower and both longer than upper; supracarpal dentate, 
Rakers v, 2 10,v, lanceolate; filaments 7/8 of rakers, 
which half of eve. Scales adherent, ctenoid; basal striae 
9 to 13; apical denticles 52 to 75; circuli very fine; lat- 
eral line strongly arched till below middle in spinous dorsal, 
nearly midway along caudal peduncle side to caudal base medi- 
ally and broad, simple, tubes obsolete. Fourth dorsal spine 
242 to 3 in head, tentn little longer than second; second 
anal spine 22 to 3; pectoral 1¢ to 1$; ventral 2, In alcohol 
dull uniform brownish generally, Length 120 to 165 mn, 
ie ap damaged). Sydney. Jono phen aa by fection cl, 
re 
jut. tabtehet Y- st 2 120 
We accept a es ectrodes Gill , Without diagnosés, in 
121 
place of Gilbertia Jordan and Kigenmann ° 
120 
Proc ,Acad.Nat.Sci,Phila.,1862, p. 23. Type Plectropoma 
nigrarubrum Valenciennes, monotypéie, 
121 
Bull. U.S.F.Com.,vol.8,1888(1890),p.346. Type P. semi 
cinctum Valenciennes, designated, 
