Joj-dan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 2841 



battls like the Pet-ca /luviatilis of Kurope, and tlio Perca granulata of America. We will 

 call it the Labtax phivialis, rainy weather iliub. 



Miigil petrosus — rock mullet ; 



lineatas — short mullet, 1 ; 



albvla — short mullet, 2; 



curema — longnuillet; 



equiiiociilus —horse-eye mullet; 



capituUn'us — drab mullet, long ears; 



plumieri — pond mullet; 



liza — callipeva ; 

 Dajaus nionticola — mountain mullet; 



choiron/nclms — hognose mullet. 

 The DajauB monticola inhabit.^ only the mountain streams; the choirorynclms or hog- 

 nose mullet IS a fish of double the size of the nionticola, and found in the same waters. 

 The miigil liza is the largest of the mullets, from 20 inches to 3 feet long ; the callipeva is 

 the name by which it is exclusively known. This is, no doubt, its Indian name. The 

 e<iuinoculus and cayitidiims, known in the market as long mullets, are readily distin- 

 guishable from each other by the size of the head, and especially by the size of the eye: 

 the horseeye mullet has the large eye, the capitulinus unusually small. The plumieri, 

 Pluuiier's mullet of Cuvier & Valenciennes, is a long mullet; and the lineatus and 

 albula whut the market people distinguish as short mullets. The callipeva is a river 

 mullet seldom extending further than the embouchure of streams, or into the ponds and 

 marshes. The curema is a large mullet found on the sea banks; it is the most highly 

 colored of all the mullets, the back is a golden green and it has scales on the second 

 dorsal fin. 



Dajaus choirorynchus is identical witli Acionoatomus nasittns, but the 

 scanty description hardly jii.stiiies the substitution of this name for the 

 later one. The other new species we fail to identify. Labrax pluvialis we 

 do not recognize. 



Page 823. The great Barracuda should stand as — 



1199. SPHYBjENA barracuda (Walbaum). 



To its synonymy add : 



Esox barracuda, Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, lii, 94, 1792; after Catesby. 



Page 827. The ventrals in the Poli/nemidw are truly thoracic, the long 

 pubic bone being attached to the shoulder girdle. This family is jiroba- 

 bly nearest allied to the Seiwnidiv. 



Page 833. After Ammodytcs jiersonatus add: 



372(a). RHYNCHIAS, Gill, new genus. 



Rhynchiai, Gn.L, MS., new genus {Beptipinnis) . 



This generic name is provisionally given to a species known only from 

 a description of Pallas, jxnd supposed to dift'er from Ammodi/fes in the 

 presence of ventral fins. It may prove to belong to some different family. 

 {pijyxoi, snout.) 



1214(a). RHTNCHIAS SEPTIPIIVMS (Pallas). 



This sjiecies has not been recognized by any recent collector, and it is 

 not certain to what family it belongs. The following is tlie substance of 

 Pallas's description : 



D. 43; A. 24; V. 8; P. 16; C. 24. Form of Amniodytca tobianus. Head 

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