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of many of the scales pearly, especially above and between the spots. 

 A conspicuous black blotch on lateral line anteriorly. A row of about 

 six salmon-olive spots along lateral line ', above these and below base 

 of dorsal is a row of large faint diffuse blotches of the same color, and 

 below them a series of faint smutty tinges, the whole forming a series 

 of about six obscure and broken cross-bars. Snout olive, mottled with 

 bluish ; a bright yellow band between eyes above, a very obscure 

 pearly-blue streak below eye, and two or three simil ar ones before eye. 

 Preorbital usually bluish, with more or less numerous longitudinal 

 streaks and dashes of golden yellow, around which the ground color 

 forms reticulations ; the preorbital sometimes pale salmon yellow, with 

 a few light bluish streaks. Cheeks, preopercle, and opercle pearly, with 

 yellow shades and spots. Opercular membrane coppery orange. Ver- 

 tical fins bluish, marked with small dusky salmon spots, which form 

 undulating cross-bars on caudal ; several blackish spots along base of 

 dorsal. Yentrals, bluish white, faintly barred. 



This species is rather common in the eel-grass about the Florida Keys, 

 where it is known as the Grass Porgy, and sometimes as " Shad Porgy," 

 from its occurrence with the " Broad Shad" {Gerres cinereus). It is taken 

 in less numbers by the hook-and-line fishermen than the Jolt-head, Little- 

 head, and Sancer-eye Porgy, and it reaches a larger size than any of 

 these, the largest seen being less than a foot in length. A few were taken 

 in the seine near the shore. A single specimen was obtained by Profes- 

 sor Jordan at Cedar Key. This specimen and one of those taken at Key 

 West have the preorbital plain, as in the original type from Pensacola. 

 Most of the specimens have the preorbital marked with bright dashes, 

 somewhat as in C. calamus. 



10. Calamus medius (Poey) Jordan & Gilbert. 



Grammateus medius Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1872, 183, pi. vii, f. 4 

 (Havana); Poey, Enuiu. Pise. Cubeus., 1875, 56 (Havana). 



This species is unknown to us. 

 Indiana University, January 25, 1884. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TEN NEW SPECIES OF FISHES FROM KEY WEST, 



FLORIDA. 



By DAVID .S. JORDAN and CHARLES H. OILBERT. 



The month of December, 1883, was spent by Professor Jordan in 

 making collections of the fishes of Key West, Fla., in the interest of 

 the United States National Museum and of the museum of the Indiana 

 University. About 190 species were obtained, of which those enumer- 

 ated below appear to be new. Typical specimens of each of these are 



