22 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PageUus milneri Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii,134, 1879 (Charlotte 



Harbor, Florida). 

 Spams milneri Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 556 (copied). 

 Calamus milneri Jordau & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 928 (Southern 



Florida). 

 ??? Calamus maerops Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1872, 181, pi. vii,f. 3 

 (Havana). 



Head 3 to 3i in length; depth 2^ (2^ in total). D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 10. 

 Scales 6-48-13. 



Body some';vhat higher than in hajonado. Anterior profile evenly 

 convex to front of dorsal, rising slowly, and not strongly arched. Pre- 

 orbital low, 2| to 3 in head, abont equaling interorhital width. 



Mouth moderate, the maxillary scarcely reaching vertical from front 

 of orbit, 2 J to 2| in head. Outer series of teeth anteriorly in both jaws 

 somewhat enlarged, small and uniform in size, 8 to 10 in each jaw. No 

 accessory rows of molars in either jaw. Eye rather small, 3f to 4J in 

 head in specimens from 6 to 11 inches long. 



Dorsal low, the highest dorsal spine about 2^ in head ; pectorals about 

 reaching vertical from front of anal, 3i in length ; ventrals If to 2 in 

 bead. Scales large, in about 5 vertical series on cheeks. 



Color in life. — Smutty-silvery, with some faint large pearly spots 

 on the scales of upper parts of body; pieorbital light bluish, plain or 

 with pearly mottlings, but without blue stripes; a faint pale streak 

 above and one just below eye; sometimes a faint dusky bar on cheek 

 below eye. Body with 4 to 6 dark cross-bars about as wide as the inter- 

 spaces, very distinct in life, and never completely disappearing. Fins 

 plain; the ventrals blackish, sometimes barred; pectoral j'ellowish, the 

 axil with a small inky spot above. 



The PageUus penna Cuv. & Yal., from Brazil, may be this species, 

 which it seems to resemble in form and coloration more than any other. 

 The descriptions extant of penna are so incom'plete, however, that we 

 prefer to retain the name milneri rather than to adopt one based on an 

 uncertain identification.* 



The young of this species, from 4 to 6 inches in length, are very abun- 

 dant in the algse on rocky bottoms about the island of Key West. Nu- 

 merous specimens were obtained in the seine. These young fishes are 

 called by the fishermen Little-mouth Porgies. A single large individ- 

 ual about a foot in length was obtained from a hook-aud-line fisherman. 

 This adult is known as the Sheepshead Porgy. Its cross-bands are 

 more distinct than in the other large species, giving it some resemblance 

 to a Sheepshead [Diplodus prohatocephahts). The small ink-like spot 

 above the base of the pectorals, and the dusky ventrals, are good color 

 marks of this species. 



* Since the above was written we have received from Dr. H. E Sanvage, of the 

 Museum at Paris, an account of the typical specimen of Calamus penna. This has the 

 small ink-like black spot iu its axil which is characteristic of C. milneri. There seems, 

 then, to be no ground for doubting the identity of C. penna and C. milneri. 



