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dull brownish vertical streaks. Under surface of body more or less 

 marbled with whitish, darker color producing soiled appearance. 

 Iris silvery, with grayish tints. Mandible whitish. Mouth pale 

 in front, though within pharynx and gill-opening brilliant orange. 

 Dorsals grayish, basally with dusky lengthwise band, above this 

 whitish band bordered above by another dusky band. All area 

 above on spinous fin dark, though on rayed fin behind another short 

 paler lengthwise band. Anals grayish, also pectorals and caudal, 

 latter very obscurely with several faint vertical darker cross bands. 

 Ventrals dusky-gray, front edge whitish, and ends with few whitish 

 mottlings. 



Length 6f inches. 



Type, No. 45,084, A. N. S. P. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British 

 West Indies. February-March, 1915. Richard M. Abbott. 



Only the type secured. This interesting species is related to 

 Orthopristis chrysopterus (Linnaeus) from the northern waters of 

 the Gulf of Mexico and the United States. It differs at once in its 

 fewer anal rays, fewer scales and coloration. 



(Scapularis, shoulder, with reference to the dark blotch.) 



Conodon nobilis (Linnaeus). 



C. nobilis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1915, p. 261. 



Brachydeuterus corvinaeformis (Steindachner). 



One 5| inches long. 



Calamus calamus (Valenciennes). 



Chrysophrys calamus Giinther, Cat. F. Brit. Mus., I, 1859, p. 487. 



Abundant in the markets, though none preserved. 

 Archosargus unimaculatus (Bloch). 



Two 5| and 6| inches. 



Eucinostomus gula (Valenciennes). 



Eight examples, 3 to 3|^ inches. 



Gerres rhombeus Valenciennes. 



Six examples 2j to 6| inches long. Young with very large caudal 

 and four or five narrow pale dusky vertical lines on front of body or 

 before anal. 



Larimus breviceps Valenciennes. 



One 6| inches. 



Odontoscion dentex (Valenciennes). 



L. dentex Gunther, I.e., II, 1860, p. 269. 



