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they are marked by shades of brownish red or maroon 

 color. There seems to be little doubt that the Trachyno- 

 tus rhodopus Gill is the young of the species which he 

 called at the same time Trachynotus fasciatus. The very 

 young specimens to which Gill gave the name Trachy- 

 notus. nas 11 tits were probably also the young of the same 

 species, but it may be that they were the young of Trachi- 

 notus kennedyi. Dr. Jordan's identification of the great 

 Pampano of the Florida Keys with Gill's Trachynotus 

 rhodofus is doubtless incorrect. There is at present no 

 evidence that any species of Trachinotus is common to 

 both coasts of Mexico. 



Young specimens, 2^ inches long. Blue above, white 

 below, no bars. Dorsal and caudal lobes black, with 

 strong orange shade. Lobes of caudal orange brown, 

 verging on black. Pectoral and ventral white. 



Specimens 6 or 7 inches long, have from 3 to 5 narrow 

 dark cross-bars, not quite so wide as pupil, running from 

 a point on a level with pectoral fin to within a short dis- 

 tance of the dorsal line of the back, but never quite to 

 it; these bars vary in number and position: posterior 

 face of pectoral fin dusky. Otherwise colored as the 

 younger ones. 



97. Trachinotus culveri Jordan & Starks n. sp. Palo- 

 meta. Plate xxx vi. 



Five specimens, each 7 inches long, obtained in the 

 market at Mazatlan; no others seen. This species is re- 

 lated to Trachinotus falcatus of the Atlantic, but its fins 

 are lower and different in coloration. It is also allied to 

 Trachinotus kennedyi, but the body is much deeper and 

 there is no black axillary spot. It does not seem possible 

 that with age culveri should become transformed into 

 kennedyi. 



Head 34 ; depth 1% ; D. VI-i, 17; A. II— 1, 17; max- 



