ADDENDA 91. SCI^ENIIME CORVINA. 931 



oil our coast, or indeed what that species may be. The original type, in 

 bad condition, has been identified by Vaillant & Bocourt with Aporjon 

 dovii, a Panama species, and their description, copied in the text on 

 page 563, seems to have been drawn from the latter species. 



a. Preopercle entire; scales large. (Apogoniclttliys Bleeker. ) 



889 (c). A. alutus J. & G. 



Busty -red, with silvery luster, body and fins very finely speckled with 

 dusky; vertical fins somewhat yellow, their tips dusky with dark points. 

 Mouth very oblique; maxillary 1J in head, reaching- past pupil; preop- 

 ercle with both ridges entire; eye moderate, 2f in head; second anal 

 spine half length of longest anal ray, 3 in head ; ventrals a little longer 

 than pectorals, not reaching vent. Head 2-J; depth 2f. D. VI-I, 0; 

 A. II, 8; Lat. 1. 21. L. 2J inches. West Florida. 



(W Apogonickthys puncticulatus Poey, Eepert. Fis. Xat. Isl. Cuba, ii, 233 (lat. 1. 30); 

 .Tor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 279.) 



Page 564. Maallus barbalus L. 



Specimens of this species have been obtained at Pensacola, Florida, 

 and at Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. The American form (subsp. auratim 

 J. & G.) is distinguishable from the typical barbatus in the lower 

 fins, less blunt snout, shorter mouth, and the presence of two lateral 

 stripes of yellow. From the European variety xurmuletus (Mullns siir- 

 muletus L.), subsp. auratus is known by the lower fins and by the re- 

 placement of the black band on the dorsal fin by a band of yellow. 

 Head 3f; depth 4. D. VII-I, 8; A. 11,6. Palatine teeth coarse and 

 granular, forming a large patch. 



(Mullus barbatus anratus JOT. &. Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 280.) 



Page 569. Instead of Rcicena stellifera read : 

 895. S. laiaceolata (Holbr.) Gthr. 



The identity of our species with S. stellifera (trispinosa) is very 

 doubtful. 



Page 570. To the description of Sclcena argyroleuca (punctata) add 

 "lowest tooth of preopercle spinous, directed downward." 



Page 571. Sciccna oceUata is known as "Bed-fish" on our Gulf coast, 

 It reaches a weight of 35 to 40 pounds. Old specimens entirely lose 

 the serratures on the preopercle, the edge of the bone becoming mem- 

 branaceous and entire as in " Corvina." 



