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tion agrees fully with this example except iu the couut of the dorsal, 

 -which, for some unknown reason, is -^g instead of ^, as Linn<§ would 

 Lave made it. All the other tin-rays are correctly given. 



The length of the type to the caudal base is 151 millimeters, and the 

 ■characters are as follows: D. IX, 12; A. Ill, 12, the last of the dorsal 

 and anal rays double; V. 6; P. 11; C. 14; scales 2 above lateral line; 

 tubes about 24 iu all. 



The lateral line is interrupted under the 10th ray of the dorsal; the 

 accessory line begins on the median line, under the end of the upper 

 lateral line, and consists of five short tubes. 



The height is one-third of the length to caudal base ; the head oue- 

 fonrth. The eye is about eqnal iu length to the upper jaw, and is 

 jilaced at the top of the head. 



Coryphcvna psittacus has been supposed to be a Pseudosmrus (Giiuther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus:, IV, 225), but we must now find another name for 

 the species to which the Liunaean name has been wrongly applied. 



5. Sparus pagrus LiiiD6. 



Pagrus argenUm Goode & Beax, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, p. 133. 

 Sj}aru« pagrus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 556. 



We have again examined the Gulf Porgee, and compared it directly 

 with a specimen of about equal size which was recently obtained from 

 lycghorn. Although there is some diiierence in the general appearance 

 of the two forms, we cannot distingush them as separate species. The 

 life colors we have not observed, but so far as the condition of the two 

 in spirits is concerned we believe that the subjoined table of measure- 

 ments, together with the remarks now to follow, will substantiate our 

 original statement of the identity of the two. 



The example from Leghorn has 17 gill-rakers on the first arch, 9 of j 

 which are below the angle; it has 7 rows of scales on the cheeks; 4 

 canines in the front of the upper jaw; 6 in the front of the lower jaw; 

 2 rows of large molars in the upper jaw, and a short, imperfect inner 

 row, consisting of a few small molars developed only anteriorly; 2 rows 

 of molars in the lower jaw, with an accessory inner row of minute ones 

 similar to those iu the upper jaw. 



The Pensacola specimen also has 17 gill-rakers on the first arch, 8 to 

 5 of them below the angle. 



It seems almost uunecessary to add more than to call attention to the 

 close correspondence in the measurements of the two individuals which 

 vre have recently compared. 



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