48 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 Table of Measurements. 



Washington, Mareh 22, 1879. 



DES<"RIPTD03f OF A NK^V SPKCBE.S OF AMBER FUfSiBI (SERTOI.A 



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.<^Bt,AS STEARNS. 



By G. BKOWN OOOfi>E acacl TARILETON H. BEAN. 



The Asrational Museum has recently received, from Mr. Silas Stearus, 

 of Peusacola, several species of fishes hitherto unrecorded from the Gulf 

 of Mexico. Among them we recognize Seriola honariensis, Cuv. & Yal., 

 previouslj^ observed only on the coast of Brazil, which is represented 

 by an individual of 890 millimetres, catalogue-number 22258; also a 

 second species of the same genus, which, though closely related to two 

 Cuban species, has characters which distinguish it from them, or, at 

 least, which do not harmonize with the published descriptions. This 

 form may in the future prove to be identical with Seriola gujas or Seriola 

 duhia ; it appears to be as distinct from either of these species as they 

 from each other. It is therefore fully described as a new species under 

 the name Seriola StearnsiL AYe prefer thus to place the Pensacola speci- 

 men on record as a i>ro visional new species rather than to identify it 

 on insutficient giounds with an already-named species, of which the pub- 

 lished descriptions are incomplete. A study of a large series of speci- 

 mens will doubtless largely reduce the number of species in this genus. 



