CilLBEUT AND STAliKS — FISHES OP PANAMA 1!AY 



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tlie upper profile forms an uninterrupted even eurvc from tip of snout to front of 

 dorsal, and hcyorid. Tlie (in and scale forintda does not ililTer from that in Kciid- 

 deri, exce[)t as noted. There are 52 scales in the hiteral line, corresponding with 

 I lie iiuiiilicr of vertical series above it. 



Measitremcnls in Hundredths of Length without Caudal. 



Species . 



Locality 



H/KMULON 

 SCUDDERI 



Panama 



H/CMULON 

 PARRA 



Mavana, 

 Cuba 



i.(ii!L;lli uitlidUt laiidal in mm. 

 Head 



Eye ... 



Snout 



Inlciiirliital (liniu') 



Maxillary 



Third diirsal spine 



Soi<md ;mal spine 



Length of iKCtoral 



l,rnL;th ()[ \'cntrals 



Length df upper Inhe ol randal. 

 Heii;lit (if caudal peduncle 



198 



.341 

 .37 



9 

 14 



7i 

 14 

 15 

 ' .3 

 21 

 20 

 20 

 10 



193. Haemulon steindachneri {Jordan <f- Gilbert). 



Fre<]uent in the market and about tlic islands in the bay. 



A detailed and wholly .satisfactory description of this species is given by Stoin- 

 daeliner (187(w?, p. 15) under the name Ihemulon candinidculn. 



194. Lythrulon flaviguttatum (Gill). 

 Lylhriilon ofxilrsccns Jokd.w (.\: Stakks (Jordan, 1895, p. 459, 1^1. XL; Mazatlan). 



Abundant in the Panama market; often taken with dynamite about the 

 islands in the bay. We have compared our specimens with the type of L. opalescens, 

 and find no ditTercnces between them. The following account of opalescens is based 

 on a re-examination of the type, the published description being faulty in several 

 respects: 



Head 3;^; depth 2;; dorsal XII, 17; anal III, 10 (the last ray cleft to the 

 base, the parts somewhat separated, the posterior half again forked, both joining the last 



