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anal pale brownish. Side of head with slight golden reflections."^ Iris 

 brownish, a silver margin close to pupil. 



Length of largest example 2| inches, and though only three were 

 taken with other small fishes, many others w^ere seen. They frequent 

 the shallows like M. curema, but so far as I could observe never asso- 

 ciate. Marquesas Keys. 



Fig. 7. Mugil trichodon Poey. 



SPHYR^NIDJE. 

 35. Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum). Barracuda. 



Color in life more or less silvery. Above pale brow^nish with about 

 six pairs of deep olivaceous double saddles meeting as many pairs 

 of rounded blotches on side of body just above or over lateral line. 

 A similar colored bar from end of snout to eye continued behind and 

 across opercle. Iris pale olivaceous, slightly orange around pupil. 

 Dorsals and caudal slightly grayish or a trifle dusky marginally, other 

 fins pale whitish. These were all young examples. In the smallest, 

 which are a little over an inch long, saddles of back are separated 

 from lateral blotches by a pale or translucent brownish area. Dorsal 

 and caudal but little darker than other fins. A brownish-olive spot 

 at base of caudal in all stages of young. 



Many examples obtained at the Marquesas and Boca Chica Key, 

 largest about 3^ inches. An adult, several feet long, was harpooned 

 off Channel Key, and a number of large examples were noted off Bahia 

 Honda Key. 



