118 THE SHORE FISHES. 



Pectoral reaches beyond vent. 



Four specimens, M. C. Z. 29566, 3| to ik inches long from Perico Island. 



Twelve specimens, l| to 4? inches long from Naos Island, Panama Bay, on 



sandy beach in seine. 



Fourteen specimens, 8 to 4? inches long, from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29425. 



February 28, 1905. 



Xystaema cinereum (Walbaum). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1372. 

 Mugil cinereus Walbaum, .4rtedi Piscium, 1792, p. 228. 



A specimen. No. 3368, 13| inches long from Acapulco. 



Gerres peruvianus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Hist. Nat. PoLss., 1830, 6, p. 467. Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 11.5. 



A specimen. No. 3135, 9? inches long from Panama. 



The second dorsal and second anal spines are broken. There is an indica- 

 tion of a black margin to the spinous dorsal ; dorsal X, 9. 



KYPHOSIDAE. 

 Doydixodon freminvillei Valenciennes. 

 Voy. Venus, 1855, 5, p. 323, pi. 5. Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1906, 30, p. 792, pi. 66, fig. 1. 



One specimen, No. 3207, ISf inches long, probably from Wreck Bay, Chat- 

 ham Island. 



Head 3.29 in length without caudal; depth 2.26; eye 6.5 in head; inter- 

 orbital 2.16; dorsal XII, 195; anal III, 12. Valenciennes {loc. cit.) in his figure 

 shows only 12 anal rays, but in the description says there are 15. The scales 9, 

 counted downward and forward from front of soft dorsal to and including lateral 

 line, downward and backward 9, from lateral line down and back to front of 

 anal 16, down and forward 15, in longitudinal series 51; opercular membranes 

 and base of pectoral are black; a wavy vertical line of darker color than scale 

 across each scale. Spines of dorsal and anal heteracanthous. 



Thirty-seven specimens of young is to lis inches long from Chatham Island 

 shore, January 9, 1905. M. C. Z. 29544 (12 specimens). 



Kyphosus elegans (Peters). 



Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 14, p. 155. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1387. Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 116. 

 Pimeleplerus elegans Peters, Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, p. 707. 



Two specimens, Nos. 3350-51, 9? and II5 inches long from Acapulco. No. 

 3350, M. C. Z. 29640 (1 specimen). 



