ADDENDA - 84. CENTRARCHID^E CILENOBKYTTUS. 915 



under middle of body. "Male with the front elevated, forming a crest, 

 which projects a little beyond the upper jaw; female with blue spots 

 along each side of the tail, regularly arranged." (Poey.} Head 5 ; depth 

 5. D. 58-64; A. 20-30. Length feet. In all warm seas ; common in 

 the Gulf of Mexico. 



(L. Syst. Nat.; Giinther, ii, 405; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub. 356: Conjphasna guttata 

 Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 245; Liitken, 1. c. 483: Coryplucna sueuri C. & V. ix. 302.) 



Page 455. After Pteraclis carolinus add: 



236 (&). BKAMA Blocli & Schneider. 

 (Bloch & Schneider, Systema Ichthyol. 1801, 99: type Sparus raji Bloch.) 



Body compressed, more or less elevated, covered with rather small 

 scales. Mouth very oblique, the lower jaw projecting; both jaws with 

 an outer series of strong teeth ; teeth on vomer and palatines decidu- 

 ous. Dorsal and anal fins elongate, the former with 3 or 4, the latter 

 with 2 or 3 spines; caudal deeply forked; ventrals thoracic, I, 5. Oper- 

 cles entire; branchiostegals 7. No air bladder. Pelagic. (Latin brama, 

 bream; the species having been called "Brama marina" by Ray.) 



(&). B. raji (Bloch) Schn. 



Coloration uniform. Eye at the middle of the head; pectorals reach- 

 ing middle of anal. Greatest depth below middle of body, 3 in total 

 length. D. 111-31; A. 11-27; scales 13-90-23. Pyloric cceca 5. Ver- 

 tebrae 16 + 23. Atlantic coasts of Europe and Africa, straying to 

 Grand Banks of Newfoundland (Bean), coast of Washington Territory 

 (Bean), and Chili. 



(Sparus raji Bloch, Ichth. taf. 273; Giinther, ii, 408.) 



Page 459. For Holocentrus read Holocentrum. The former is the orig- 

 inal orthography, but it is not worth while to try to restore it. 



Page 461. Under Elassomatidce, the statements "no teeth on vomer" 

 and "pseudobranchia3 none" are not quite correct. A specimen of Elas- 

 soma zonatum from Tombigbee Eiver, 1 inches long, thus much larger 

 than the original types, shows the following characters: 



A few weak teeth on voiner; front teeth of both jaws canine-like, 

 directed forward ; pseudobranchia3 somewhat glandular, covered by 

 skin. Scales cycloid ; no lateral line. Dorsal apparently emargiuate. 

 D. V, 9; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 38. Head speckled with black; fins with 

 dark spots. 



