5GO CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 







depth 2. I). XIT, U; A. Ill, 13; scales 6-G3-14. L. 5 indies. North 

 Carolina to Cuba; abundant at Beaufort, N". C. 



(Sari/nx <iiii'liiiiu<'iila IWy, .Mnnurias, ii, HI-. 1-:,-: A;-<ys holbruoki Jordan & Gil- 

 1-Tt. 1'roc. U. X. \.-it. .Miis. 1-7S. :;?); not of Bean.) 



2. GIRELLA Gray. 



(Camarina Ayres.) 

 (Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zoiil. l$:\-*: type Girellapuncfatn Gray.) 



llody oblong-ovate, compressed, covered with rather large scales. 

 Month small, with a series of flat, tricuspid, movable incisors, behind 

 which is a broad band of similar smaller ones; no molar teeth: no 

 teeth on vomer or tongue. Cheeks with very small scales; opercles 

 and top of head chiefly naked. Dorsal fin rather low, with about 14 

 spines, on the bases of which the scales extend, forming an imperfect 

 sheath; no groove at base of dorsal; no procumbent dorsal spine; anal 

 spines small, graduated; caudal lunate. Air-bladder divided into two 

 posterior horns. Pyloric cceca numerous; intestinal canal elongate; 

 peritoneum black. Herbivorous. Pacific Ocean. (A latinization of the 

 French GireUe= Julia.) 



86. O. iiigricans (Ayres) Gill. Blue-fish. 



Dusky green, paler below; young with a large yellowish spot on 

 eacli side of the dorsal tin. Body oval, compressed, \\ it h very deep 

 caudal peduncle; snout thick, its profile evenly rounded; mouth 

 small, subinferior, low, nearly horizontal; maxillary reaching nearly to 

 front of orbit ; a minute patch of palatine teeth; preopercle minutely 

 serrulate at its angle; preorbital asbioad as eye. ( 1 ill -rakers numerous. 

 rather lung. Scales linn, weakly ctenoid, those on thorax and front of 

 back smaller. Dorsal spines lower than the soft rays; anal higher than 

 soft dors;il. similar to it; caudal emarginate; pectorals short and broad. 

 not reaching vent; ventrals short. Head 1; depth -.\. I>. XIV. 1 1 ; A. 

 MI.PJ: La t. 1. r.O. L. 1L> inches. Coast of California, from Umterey 

 sonthv.ard, abundant in rocky places, feeding on sea-weed. 



(Ciiiiiin-iiKi iii'ii-inuix Avivs, I'ror. Cal. Ac.-nl. Nat. Sri. l-iio, -1: <;inll<i 

 Gill, 1'ror. Ara.l. Nat. Sri. 1'liila. 1-:..', .'!>.) 



289. FIITIELKPTEIirS 



i I.. M, !-.],. Ili-i. \.-it. 1'i.iss. i\, I -.".I, 1802: type 1'inx h/.lmi* l><>.^-;. I.:ir<'prilc.) 



Body i-egnlai-ly ovate, moderately compressed; head short, with 

 blunt snout; eye large; mouth small, horizontal ; maxillary barely 

 reaching front of eye; both jaws with a single series of rather narrow 



