264 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP [1886. 



The specimens before us are from Key West and Havana. 

 They range from 6^ to 13 inches in length. This species seems 

 to reach a larger size than any of the others here mentioned. 



Head 3^ ; depth 2^ to ^ ; scales 6-45-10. 



Body compressed, elongate, back moderately elevated, the 

 dorsal profile being evenly convex. Mouth moderate, the maxil- 

 lary extending but slightly beyond the vertical at anterior margin 

 of orbit, its exposed portion triangular in form, and twice as long 

 as wide, its length being contained five times in that of the head. 



Preorbital and preopercle entire ; premaxillary groove broad 

 and free from scales ; gill-rakers weak, 7 below the angle. Eye 

 moderate, about 3^ in head ; snout 3:^, and interorbital space 3j, 

 in head. Distance from end of snout to dorsal fin 2^ in length 

 of body. Second dorsal spine longest, about 1^ in head, and not 

 much stronger than the others ; all the dorsal spines are weak 

 and flexible ; general outline of the upper margin of the spinous 

 dorsal falcate. Second and third anal spines subequal, second 

 2f to 2| in length of head, the pectorals scarcely reaching anal, 

 their length being contained three times in that of the body. 

 Ventrals contained If times in head, and scarcely reaching the vent. 



Color silvery with bluish reflections above. Sides with 7 or 8 

 broken, bluish vertical bars, about equaling pupil in width. No 

 dark stripes along the scales. Dorsal and caudal fins dusk^^ and 

 slightly so ; other fins pale, ventrals with a few dark punctula- 

 tions ; axil dark. 



7. Gerres gula. 



Oerres gula Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 464, 1830 

 (Martinique; Brazil); Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 58, 1843; 

 Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 346, 1859 (Bahia ; San Domingo ; 

 Jamaica); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 255, 1862 (Bahia; San 

 Domingo; Jamaica); Poey, Rep. Pise. Cub., 316, 1865 (Havana); 

 Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., v, 1876, 39 (Bermudas) ; Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 934, 1883 ; Evermann & Meek, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, 122 (Bermudas; Beaufort, N. C; Charleston, 

 S. C; Aspinwall ; Peusacola); Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1883, 289 (Notes on original type); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , 



1884, 130 (Key West); Jordan & Swain, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 

 233 (Cedar Keys); Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 1885, 95. 



Diapterus gula Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 323, 1868 (Havana). 



Eudnostomus argenteus Baird & Girard^ Ninth Smith. Rept., 1855, 345 

 (New Jersey Coast); Girard, U. S. andMex. Bd. Survey, Fishes, 17, 

 PI. ix, figs. 9-12, 1859 (Brazos Santiago, Indianola, and St. Joseph's 

 Island, Texas). 



