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each scale within more or less dusky. Markings extending on fins 

 which are very pale brownish. Iris golden. Length 3^ inches. 

 The Marquesas and Boca Chica Key. 



Fig. 12. Calamus penna (Valenciennes) 

 60. Lagodon rhomboides (Linn;tus). Bream. 



Color in life pale bluish-olive above, below silvery white. Gilt lines 

 above parallel with lateral line, and below horizontal. Vertical lines 

 dusky slate-color, and forming a black blotch at beginning of lateral 

 line. Dorsal spines gilded silvery slate-color. A median broad gilt 

 band entire length of dorsal and anal. Edge of spinous dorsal gilt. 

 Caudal brownish with golden tint. Pectoral and ventral whitish, 

 latter with a gilt line in middle of its length. Inside of gill-opening 

 silvery. Iris silvery with golden and brown. Length 3f inches. 



Marquesas, Grassy and Big Pine Keys, and Hailer's Rock. 



GERRIDiB. 



Shad. 



61, Eucinostomus gula (Valenciennes). 



Color in life bright silvery, back tinted with very pale gray-blue. 

 About four indistinct grayish vertical bands on side of back, most 



