GENUS PETROMETOPON GILL The Enjambres This genus is close to Epinepbelus, from which it differs in the absence of processes and longitudinal ridges on upper surface of the frontals; a curved or angular ridge across the posterior portion of the frontals in front of the supraoccipital, connecting the parietal crests. There are in our waters 3 species, only 1 being of much value as food. This is the cony or red hind, Petrometopon cruentatus. This beautiful fish ranges from Florida and the West Indies to Brazil. It is common about Cuba and Jamaica, but appears to be rare about Porto Rico. At Key West, where it is called cony, it is rather common about the reefs. It reaches a foot in length and is a good food-fish. It takes the hook readily, and is a very active little fish. Head 2 1/2; depth 2 4/5; eye 5 1/2; D. IX, 14 or 15; A. III, 8; scales 8-85 to 95-30, about 50 to 55 pores. Body oblong, rather deep and compressed, its width 2 1/4 in its greatest depth; head moderate, a little acute anteriorly, the profile nearly straight from snout to nape, where it is rather convex; mouth rather large, maxillary extending some-what beyond eye, 1 7/8 in head; lower jaw not strongly projecting; teeth in narrow bands, the depressible teeth of the inner series very long and slender, longer than in any other of our species, those of the lower jaw and front of upper especially enlarged, longer than the small, subequal canines; interorbital space narrow, with a median depression, its width 7 in head; preopercle convex, very weakly serrate; opercle with 3 distinct spines; nostrils small, subequal; scales rather large, mostly strongly ctenoid; dorsal spines slender and pungent, the fourth and fifth highest, 3 2/5 in head; caudal very convex, the middle rays longest; anal rounded. Colour in life, livid reddish gray, paler below; spots vermilion, usually darker posteriorly, larger anteriorly. The brown hind may be merely a colour variety of the cony.