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Color in alcohol rich warm brown, lower surface paler, evidently- 

 silvery in life. Along ea^'h series of scales on side of body a narrow 

 streak or line of darker color than general body-color. Above lateral 

 line these also follow series of scales parallel with it, and below it they 

 are also horizontal. Lower side of head including cheek and opercle 

 spotted or dotted with brown. Spinous dorsal and ventrals duskj^- 

 brown. Rayed dorsal with more or less pale dusky-brown on its outer 

 portion. Caudal and anal paler. Pectoral pale brownish. Inside of 

 mouth pale. Iris brassy. Peritoneum whitish. 



Length 3f inches. 



Type No. 14,621, A. N. S. P. Taken on the surface of the open 

 Atlantic in Lat. 24° 21' N., Long. 34° 32' W. (northwest of Cape de 

 Verde Islands). Dr. W. H. Jones. Also seven paratypes with same 

 data. The very young differ in ha^dng the body marked with large 

 blotches, no longitudinal lines on side, and lower parts of head together 

 with thorax marked with numerous brown spots. Larger example 

 with 28 rays. 



Young examples also from the open Atlantic's siu-face in Lat. 23° 

 53' N., Long. 53° 06' W. (northwest of the Lesser Antilles). Another 

 also from the Atlantic in the Saragossa Sea. All from Dr. William H. 

 Jones. 



The East Indian form ^ needs comparison. Psenes guttatus appa- 

 rently differs in coloration, especially the spotted thorax and lower 

 surface of the head. None of my examples show a trace of the bluish 

 bar indicated by Valenciennes. Psenes edwardsii Eigenmann* has 

 a little different radial formula and about 140 scales in the lateral hne. 



(Dedicated to Dr. Henry C. Chapman, Professor of Institutes of 

 Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in the Jefferson Medical College 

 of Philadelphia, who has contributed many valuable additions to the 

 ichthyological collections of the Academy.) 



LBPODID-ffi fam. nom. nov. 

 LEPODUS Rafinesque. 



Carat. Alcun. Gen. Spec. An. Plant . Sicilia, 1810, p. 53 {saragus = raii) 

 is to be used, as Brama Klein, in Walbaum, Pet. Arted. Gen. Pise., Ill, 

 1792, p. 586, with Cyprinus brama Linnaeus as type, preoccupies Brama 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth., Bloch, 1801, p. 98, based on Sparus rail Bloch. 

 The Pomfret, Lepodus rail (Bloch), examined. 



6 Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 193, PI. 265. 



^Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXI, 1901 (1902), p. 35, fig. From under a 

 medusa, 30 miles south of Newport, Rhode Island. 



