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Carangus falcatus Girard, Gill. 

 Caranx amblyrhynchus pt. Giinther. 



This species has been considered by Giinther as identical with the Carangojis 

 amblyrhynchus (Caranx amblyrhynchus Cuv. etVal.), of the Brazilian Coast, but 

 if the proportions of the two forms are constant, such cannot be the case. 

 The Carangops amblyrhynchus is described and figured by Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes as a higher fish with a larger head. The height of that fish is con- 

 tained two times and two-thirds in the total length, or about twice (fide figure) 

 in the length to the base of the external caudal rays, while in C. falcatus the 

 height is rather less than a third of the length, or a line twice the height 

 would cease some distance before the end of the vertical fins. Thus even if 

 the caudal fin of C. amblyrhynchus is unequal which is denied by the figure 

 and not noticed in the description the C. falcatus is distinguishable from it. 



Only known in the United States as an inhabitant of Charleston. 



Genus BLEPHARICHTHYS Gill. 



Blepharis Cuvier. 



The name of Blepharis cannot be retained for this group of Carangoids as 

 it had previously been bestowed on a valid genus of plants by Jussieu. 



BLEPHARICHTHYS CRINITUS Gill. 



Zeus crinitus Akerty. 

 Blepharis major Cuv. et Yah 



" sutor Cuv. et Vol. 



" crinitus Dekay. 



This species is rare along the eastern coast, no specimens from that coast 

 being in the Smithsonian collection. It has hitherto been seen at New York. 



Subfamily VOMERIIN^E Gill. 

 Genus VOMER Cuv. 

 Platysomus Swainson. 



Vomer setipinnis Ayres. 

 Silver-fish Funnel. 

 Rhomboida Brown. 

 Poisson lune Desmarchais. 

 Zeus setapinnis Mitchill. 

 Vomer brownii Cuv. et Vol. 

 Platysomus brownii Swains. 

 " spixii Swains. 



" micropteryx Sivains. 



Argyreiosus setipinnis Gthr. 



Youny. 

 Argyreiosus unimaculatus Batcheler. 



" vomer (young? an spec nov.?) Gthr. 



The young of this species has the abdomen much curved and extended 

 downwards, and a spot at the commencement of the lateral line. This dis- 

 covery, made last winter aud communicated to several American ichthyolo- 

 gists, has been recently confirmed by the independent observations of M. Poey. 



The number of dorsal rays is almost always twenty-one or two ; the variety 

 B with twenty-five rays, noticed by Dr. Giinther, is therefore a distinct spe- 

 cies, and may be named Vomer dorsalis. 



Genus SELENE Laccpede, Brevoort. 

 Selene argentea Lacepede. 

 Selene argentea Lac, Cuvier (1817). Stark (1818). Brevoort 1851-53). Gill. 

 (1861). Poey (1861). 



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