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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[1884. 



Below is given a table of measurements of six specimens from 

 Key West. Tlie proportions are given in hundredtlis of tbie 

 length from tip of snout to end of last vertebra. 



2. Sphyrsena ensis .Jordan arid Gilbert. 



Sphyrcena forsteri Steindachner, Ichth. Beitriige vii, 1878, 4 [Cape San 

 Lucas to Monterey (not of Cuv. and Val., an East Indian species, as 

 yet not certainly recognized)]. 

 Sphyrmna ensis Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1882, 

 106 (Mazatlan) ; Jordan and Gilbeit, op. cit., ii, 1882, 109 (Panama, 

 no description); Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 

 624 (Panama ; no description). 

 Habitat. — Pacific Coast of America from Cape San Lucas to 

 Panama (East Indies ?). 



3. Sphyraena guaguanche Cuv. and Val. Gnngnfinche : (luarju'^nche Pelon. 



Sphyrmna guacJiancho Cuv. and Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1829, 342 

 (Havana ; on a drawing by Poey; lapsus iov guaguanche); Guichenot, 

 Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 165 (Havana). 

 Sphyrcena guaguanche Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 1860, 166 (Havana); 



Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 1875, 96 (Havana), 

 SphyroRTia gtiaguancho Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 

 146 (Wood's HoU, Mass^.; Ptnsacola, Fla.; Cuba); Goode and Bean, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 239 (Gulf of Mexico ; no description); 

 Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 1883, 411; Jordan, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884 (Pensacola, Fla.). 

 ? Sphyraina guntJieri Haly, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser, iv, vol. xv, 

 p. 270 (Colon; fide Steind.); Steindachner, Ichtliyol. Beitriige, vii, 

 1878, 6 (after Haly). 

 Habitat. — West Indies, north to Wood's Holl, Mass., and 

 Pensacola, Florida. 



Head 3j in length ; depth 2 in head, D. V-1, 9 ; A. 1-8 ; scales 

 in lateral line 120 to 130. 



