42 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP [1884. 



LIST OF FISHES FBOM EGMONT KEY, FLORIDA, IN THE MUSEUM OF 

 YALE COLLEGE, WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES. 



BY DAVID S. JORDAN. 



A small collection of fishes from Egmont Key, in Tampa Bay, 

 Southern Florida, belonging to the Museum of Yale College, has 

 been sent to me for identification by Professor A. E. Verrill. 

 The fishes were collected some years ago, a part by Mr. William 

 F. Coons, the remainder by Mr. E. Jewett. In the following list 

 the species collected by Mr. Jewett are marked with the initial 

 "J". Those not thus marked were obtained by Mr. Coons. The 

 numbers given are those on the register of the Museum of Yale 

 College. Those marked with a star (*) have been presented to 

 the Museum of Indiana University. 



1. Rhinobatus lentiginosus Garmau. (805, 821*.) 

 An adult specimen and a f(etus. 



2. Opiethonema oglinum (Le Sueur) Bean. (809.) 



(Opisthonema thrissa Auct., not Clupea thrissa L.) 

 The original type of Glupea thrissa L. was a fish brought from 

 China by Lagerstrom and described by Linnaeus' pupil Odhel, in 

 the Amoen. Academ., v, 251, under the name (prebinomial) of 

 Glupea thryza. Lagerstrom 's fish was a species of Dorosoma. 

 The Glupea thrissa of Osbeck was also a Dorosoma. In the 

 synonymy given by Linnagus, of Glupea thrissa, in the tenth 

 edition of the Systema Naturge, are included, among others, some 

 references to our Opisthonema. In this twelfth edition of the 

 same work is a description of a Glupea thrissa received from Dr. 

 Garden of Charleston. This ^Hhrissa^^ is Doroson i cepedianum. 

 The species called Glupea thrissa by Broussonet, Cuvier and 

 most later authors, is our Opisthonema, but the specific name 

 thrissa can be properly used only for the Chinese Dorosoma, for 

 which it was at first intended. The oldest name belonging to 

 our species (as already noted by Dr. Bean, Mss.) is that of 

 Megalops oglina Le Sueur. 



3. Sidera ooellata (Agafsiz) J. and G. (804; 824* [.T]; 840.) 



4. Coecula soaticaris (Goode and Bean) J. and G. (800*; 801.) 



Head 9^ in distance to vent ; trunk very slightly shorter than 

 tail; cleft of mouth 3^ in head, in a specimen 16i inches long. 



