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6-|; interorbital space 2}; first dorsal spine If; first developed anal 

 ray 1^; least depth of caudal peduncle 2|-; pectoral 1|; ventral 1^. 

 Length 11 inches. One from eastern San Domingo, West Indies. 

 Prof. W. M. Gabb. 



SPHYE^]NID^. 



AGRIOPOSPHYR-'ENA subgen. nov. 

 Type Esox barracuda Walbauni. 



Scales 90 or less. Top of head broad, flat and interorbital space 

 slightly concave. Lower margin of orbit midway or above middle of 

 depth of head. Body rather robust. 



{'A'y/nwTTd':, wild; Ztfupavja^ Sphyrcena.) 



Sphyraena snodgrassi Jenkins. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1899 (1901), p. 388, fig. 2. Honolulu. (Drs. O. P. 



Jenkins and T. D. Wood.) 

 Sphyrcena commersoni Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, p. 501. 



Sandwich Islands. (Dr. William H.Jones). L.c, p. 520. Tahiti. (Dr. 



J. K. Townsend.) (Not of Cuvier.) 



Head 3; depth 5f ; D. V-I, 9; A. II, 8; scales 80 in lateral hne to 

 base of caudal, 8 more on latter; snout 2\ in head, from its 

 tip; eye 6; maxillary 2^; interorbital space 4f ; pectoral 2f ; ventral 

 3; least depth of caudal peduncle 4. Eye a little longer than deep, 

 and its lower margin about midway in depth of head. Distal extremity 

 of maxillary not quite reaching front rim of orbit. Jaws forming 

 rather robust or broad angle, lower not greatly produced. Edge of 

 isthmus rounded. Interorbital space slightly concave. Dorsals and 

 anal brown on greater portions distally, soft dorsal dark. Length dh 

 inches. Hawaiian Islands. 



Head 2y\; depth about 6f. End of maxillary a little short of 

 front rim of orbit. Dark brown of vertical fins apparently faded. 

 Tahiti. 



Close to S. barracuda of the West Indies, apparently differing in the 

 shorter maxillary, though I have not had the opportunity to compare 

 examples of intermediate size. 



Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum). 



Esox barracuda Walbaum, Pet. Art. Gen. Pise, III, 1792, p. 94. (Based 

 on Barracuda Catesby, Nat. Hist. Flor. Bah., II, 1771, p. 1, PI. 1. In 

 all the shallow seas of the Bahama Islands.) 



Two examples from San Domingo, West Indies. Prof. W. M. Gabb. 

 A Porto Rican example, in alcohol, shows ten large ])r(nvti bh)tches on 

 side and vertical fins with duskv. 



