1883.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 119 



Eucinostomus pseudogula Poey, Anal. Soc. Esp., iv, 124 & 125, 1875. 



(Cuba.) 

 Eucinostomus harengulus Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 



132. (Western Florida.) 

 Diapterus harengulus Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 339. 



(Clear Water Harbor, Florida.) 

 Gerres gracilis Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 274 



(Guaymas) ; and Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1881, 329 (Guaymas ; 



Mazatlan ; Panama) ; ibid., 1882, 108 (Mazatlan ; Panama). 

 Oerres hareiigulus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 584, 1883. 



(Pensacola, Florida.) 

 Body elliptical, compressed, tapering regularly each way from 

 the spinous dorsal ; anterior profile almost straight and not steep; 

 angle at front of breast little marked. Mouth small, maxillary 

 reaching vertically from front of orbit or slightly past it. Teeth 

 rather strong, in broad patches. Exposed portion of maxillary 

 ovate, about twice as broad as long. Preorbital entire, very 

 narrow, its narrowest part about half width of maxillary-. £3^6 

 not very large, its diameter about equal to length of snout, or the 

 interorbital space, and is about 3i in head. Furrow for the base 

 of the premaxillaries a narrow naked groove, its length about 

 three-fifths of the eye, and more than three times its own breadth, 

 measured from the anterior limit of the scales along its sides. 

 Preopercle entire. Dorsal spines weak and flexible, the last two 

 or three proportionally stronger than the others. Longest dorsal 

 spine about twice in head, more than two-fifths greatest depth of 

 body, and nearly twice length of second anal spine. Anal spines 

 short, the second somewhat stronger than the third, but shorter, 

 its length 3f to 4^ in head. Third spine shorter than soft rays. 

 Yentrals short, three-fifths length of head, reaching about half-way 

 to anal, but not nearly to vent. Pectorals slender, about as long 

 as head, reaching about to vent. Caudal not very long, the inner 

 margins of the lobes convex, the middle rays about one-fourth 

 length of outer ones, which are a little shorter than head. Scaly 

 sheath at base of fins moderate, the last raj'S of the anal hidden 

 by it. A^entrals and caudal mostly covered with small scales ; 

 other fins naked. 



Color in life, silvery, greenish above. Snout and upper part of 

 caudal peduncle du5k3\ Spinous dorsal, in a male specimen, 

 dusky, punctate at base, abruptly black at tip, the dark areas 

 separated by a transparent, horizontal bar; in a female specimen, 

 the dorsal grows gradually darker at tip. Soft dorsal punctate. 



