Haemulon steindachneri (Jordan and Gilbert). Py 165 
Head 2 2/3; depth 24; D.XII, 1, 15; A. III, 8,1; 
scales 54 along lateral line to caudal base and 10 more 
on latter; tubes 50 in lateral line to caudal base and 9 
more on latter; 8 scales above lateral line to soinous 
dorsal origin; 7 above to soft dorsal origin; 14 below to 
spinous anal origin; about 40 predorsal scales; snout 1 2/3 
in head; eye 4; maxillary 1 5/6; interorbital 32. 
Body elongate ovoid, compressed; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 14 its length or 37 in head. Head width 2 1/10 
its length. Snout conic, long as wide. Eye little ellipsoid, 
about midway in head length. Mouth moderate, jaws even. Max- 
illary extends 3/5 in eye; expansion 21/8. Bands of fine 
conic teeth in at least front half of each jaw, with outer series 
of larger conic ones all around and continued back; front upper 
teeth almost twice size of lower; no others, Nostrils together, 
a ike; front one at last fourth in snout. Interorbital convex, 
Hind preopercle edge with short serrae, inconspicuous, crowded 
about median region, more wide-spread around angle, none below,. 
Greatest preorbital width trifle more than eye; suprascapular 
edge entire. 
Rakers 9+12, III, lanceolate, 1 2/3 in filaments, which 
1 7/8 in eye. Scales finely ctenoid; rows oblique above lateral 
line and below anteriorly though become longitudinal posteriorly; 
