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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[Jan., 



pics from Porto Rico (Coll. U. S. Fish Com.) about 4^ inches long are 



more slender, the depth usually about 3^, and the maxillary falling a 



little short of posterior margin of eye. At present, in alcohol, the iris 



is dilute silvery-white. The colored figure given by Messrs. Evermann 



and Marsh^ unfortunately lacks the spinous dorsal and anal fins. 



Oligoplites saliens (Bloch). 



Scornber saliens Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fisch., VII (X), 1793, p. 49, Pi. 335. 

 Bey den antillischen Inseln. 



Head 4|; depth 3f ; D. I, IV-I, 20: A. II-I, 20; P. iii, 14; V. I, 5; 

 width of head about 2yo in its length; depth of head over posterior 

 margin of eye li; mandible 1-f ; second articulated dorsal ray H; first 

 articulated anal ray If; pectoral 1^; ventral 2f ; snout 34 in head, 

 measured from its own tip; eye 4; maxillary li; interorbital space 4; 



Fig. 2. — Oligoplites saliens (Bloch). 



last dorsal spine 4 ; second anal spine 4f ; least depth of caudal peduncle 



4|. 



Body deep, compressed, oblong-ovoid, and greatest depth at origin 

 of rayed anal. Profiles similar, more or less straight to caudal peduncle 

 after origins of soft dorsal and anal. Caudal peduncle rather slender, 

 compressed, and its least depth about 2^ in length. 



Head deep, compressed, upper profile nearly straight, and lower 

 about evenly convex from tip of mandible to gill-opening. Snout short , 

 convex, a little broad, and upper jaw a little pointed in front. Eye 

 circular, lower rim a little below greatest depth and posterior rim about 

 midway in head. Mouth large, gape reaching about opposite middle of 

 orbit, and tip of mandible produced a little beyond tip of upper jaw. 

 Preorbital narrow. Maxillary long, narrow, its distal expanded ex- 



3 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (Fish. Porto Rico), 1899 (1900), PI. 7. 



