FAMILY XIX. H^EMULID^E. 201 



scaly at base; head, except portion in front of nostrils, scaly; scales 

 through ctenoid. 



One specimen, i iX inches in length taken at Perez. Named for 

 Dr. Frederic Starr, who more than any one else has studied the 

 native Indians of Mexico. 



190. Pomadasys bayanus Jordan & Evermann. 



Pristipoma humile Kner & Steindachner, Sitsgber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Munch, 1863, 222; Rio Bayano, near Panama. 



Pomadasis bayanus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1898, 1331 ; name a substitute for humile, preoccupied: Gilbert 

 & Starks, Fishes of Panama Bay, 109, 1904; San Jose del Cabo, 

 Lower California. 



Pacific coast streams, from Cape San Lucas to Panama. 



Head 3^5; depth 3^; D. xn, 12; A. in, 7; scales 8-56-20. Body 

 elongate, elliptical, compressed somewhat, elevated at the nape; an- 

 terior profile straight from nape to the end of the snout; snout pro- 

 duced, blunt, rounded, its length 3 to 3 % in head; mouth large, the 

 maxillary reaching to anterior third of eye, its length 2f in head; 

 diameter of eye 5 in head; preorbital 6^; dorsal fin deeply notched, 

 its longest spine about 2^ in head; second anal spine long and 

 strong, its length i^ in head; soft dorsal and anal sca'ly at the base. 



Color uniform olivaceous above, silvery below; fins plain. 



The two specimens mentioned by Gilbert & Starks are probably 

 different species, the smaller one from San Jose del Cabo being appar- 

 ently closely related to Pomadasys templei. The material I have at 

 hand does not indicate that the very long second anal spine is charac- 

 teristic of the young. 



191. Pomadasys templei sp. nov. 



Type, No. 4504, F. C. M., 6^ inches in length; Valles, San Luis 

 Potosi. 



Head 3^; depth 3^'. D- xm-i2; A. in, 6; scales 7-57-16. Body 

 elongate, compressed, the ventral outline nearly straight, back arched; 

 profile from tip of snout to the origin of dorsal nearly straight; head 

 pointed; snout bluntish; mouth moderate; the maxillary scarcely 

 reaching vertical from anterior margin of the eye, its length 3^ in 

 head; mouth little oblique, the margin of the upper lip below the level 

 of lower margin of eye; snout 3 in head; eye large, 3^ in head; pre- 

 opercle strongly serrate; a large toothed scale-like process just above 

 angle of opercle; origin of dorsal over origin of pectoral, its first spine 

 very short, the spines gradually increase in length to the fourth, which 

 is longest, if in head; the next to the last spine is 3^3 in head; pec- 



