PERCOPHIDAE. 
Percophis brasiliensis Quoy and Gaimard, 
Head 3 5/6; depth 2 7/8 in head; D.VIII - 30; A. 37; scales 
108 in lateral line to ceudal base; 10 scales above lateral line 
to spinous dorsal origin, 21 below to anal origin; 68 predorsal 
scales to snout tip; snout 2 2/3 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 
6 1/2; maxillary 2 3/5; interorbital 11/3 in eye. Head widtn 
21/5 ibs’total length, Snout depressed, long as wide. Eye 
supero-lateral. Mouth moderate, lower jaw produced. Maxillary 
to first 2/5 in eye; expansion 2 in eye. Teeth in jaws uniserial, 
moderate; 6 upper canines in front; below small pair of canines 
in front and 8 well-developed lateral canines; band of fine teeth 
across vomer and palatines, outer row on latter slightly enlarged, 
Interorbital level. Rakers 7f 17, slender, lanceolate, equal fil- 
aments or 1 2/3 in eye. Scales in 18 rows across cheek to preoper- 
cle ridge; basal radiating striae 10; apical denticles about 25; 
basal circuli fine, and upper and lower marginal coarse. Color in 
alcohol dull uniform brownish. Length 280 mm, (Caudal damaged, ) 
PAR 
fh 
Hyperphepercis new genus, 
Type Hyperphapercis fi jiensis new species. 
Allied with Neopercis Steindachner, in the presence of pal- 
atine teeth, but differs in the last dorsal spines shorter than 
the median. With Parapercis it agrees in the deeply notched dorsal 
leaving the spinous and soft fin separated, and its form, From 
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