100 THE SHORE FISHES. 



No. 3197 has, head 2.89 in length; depth 2.76; eye 6.05 in head; snout 

 2.42; preorbital 6.81; width maxillary 1.63 in eye, not reaching eye; pectoral 

 2.86 in length; dorsal VIII-I, 25; anal II-I, 21 ; scutes twenty-four on each side; 

 breast, cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly; teeth in upper jaw, short, blunt, 

 and in two irregular series, outer teeth slightly larger, one series on lower jaw; 

 fine teeth on vomer and palatines. 



No. 3172 has head 2.60 in length; depth 2.83; eye 6.44 in head; snout 

 2.40; preorbital 6.44; pectoral 1.14 in length; width maxillary 1.79 in eye; 

 dorsal VIII-I, 25; anal II-I, 21; fins in both specimens with a narrow scaly 

 sheath and scales similar; teeth in upper jaws like those of No. 3197, but in a 

 single series in each jaw; no teeth on vomer, a series of very fine teeth on pala- 

 tines. 



Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 9,3-1, 1900, pt. 4, pi. 144, fig. 392. 

 Zeus setapinnis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 1, p. 3.S4, pi. 1, fig. 9. 



Three specimens 65-62 inches long from Panama Bay. M. C. Z. 29710 



(1 specimen). 



Chloroscombrus orqueta .Jordan & Gilbert. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 5, p. 646. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, 

 p. 938. 



Two specimens 51 and 6| inches long from Panama Bay. M. C. Z. 29715 

 (1 specimen). 



Trachinotus rhodopus Gill. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, 1863, p. 8.5. Gilbert & Stark.s, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 82. 



One specimen. No. 3119, 11 inches long from Panama. 



The prolonged vertical fins reach much beyond middle of caudal. 



Three specimens 1? and In inches long from Perico Island, dredged near 

 shore in two fathoms. M. C. Z. 29545 (2 .specimens). 



One specimen 1? inches long from Station 4596, Lat. 16°, 47' N.; Long. 

 100°, 27' W. 



NOMEIDAE. 



Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 949. 

 Gobius gronovii Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1789, 1, pt. 3, p. 1205. 



Two specimens, I to is inches long from surface at Station 4542, Lat. 14°, 

 50' N.; Long. 101°, 31' W. M. C. Z. 29613 (1 specimen). 



