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jaw only. We therefore consider it as the type of a distinct genus 

 Querimana (from Queriman, a Portngnese or Spanish name of Mvgil 

 liza, in Surinam). The stomach is gizzard-lilie as in MxgiL Eyelid 

 not adipose. 



38. Menidia laciniata Swain. — Silrrr-Ji-sk. 



Four young specimens were obtained, in all of which the anal rays 

 iire 1, 19, thus agreeing with s[)ecimens from Beaufort, N. C, and differ- 

 ing from topical vagrmiH from Galveston, which has the anal rays usually 

 1, 17 (1, 14 to 1, 17). These young specimens show the following colora- 

 tion: Clear trauvslucent, greenish above; back with two or more rather 

 regular series of minute black dots, usually not more than one on each 

 vscale; snout and lower jaw dusky; lateral silvery streak rather wide, 

 covering the third row of scales, not bounded above by a dark line, but 

 the entire band dusted with dark points. A few minute dots on base of 

 -anal ; caudal dusky. 



39. Menidia bosci (C.&.V.) Swiiiu.—Silver-fisli. 



(Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 42i).) 



Two young specimens, one having the anal rays 22, the other 23, are 

 •colored as follows: Greenish-yellow on back, very thickly covered with 

 fine dots, as are also the snout and lower jaw; lateral streak very nar- 

 row, bordered above with a conspicuous greenish-black line; the stripe 

 about as wide as pupil, covering the middle of the fourth series of scales. 

 Caudal conspicuously light yellow; dorsal and pectoral fins less so; 

 base of anal dusky. 



40. Sphyreena picuda (Bloch) Foey. —Barruviida. 



Rare oif Charleston Harbor; said to be very infrequently seen. A 

 single specimen, about 18 inches long, was taken on the bottom in 10 

 fathoms of water. It shows the following characters: 



Color, dusky bluish above and on sides, silvery white below; about 20 

 dusky bars, much wider than the interspaces, descend from back not 

 quite to lateral line; lower part of sides with a few black blotches, irreg- 

 ular in shape and position, usually little larger than pupil; top of head 

 blackish; opercular menibrane above black; soft dorsal, anal, ventrals 

 and caudal black; the dorsal and aual with tips of first and last rays 

 white; pectorals and spinous dorsal fin dusky, the axil black; ventrals 

 margined with white posteriorly. 



Head very large, the lowerjaw especially strong and heavy, the snout 

 rather bluntly conical ; maxillary about half length of head, reaching 

 front of pupil. Premaxillary series of teeth small, compressed, of uni- 

 form size, about 40 in number; vomer with two pairs of very large, com- 

 pressed teeth, triangular in shape, their length more than half diameter 

 of pupil ; the an terior i)air directed downwards, the posterior down wani s 

 and backwards, the two pairs separated by an interspace equal to their 

 length; palatines with a close set series of about 8 teeth similar to those 



