2844 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



Richard C. McGregor, in 1897. From the ]atter the above account was 



taken. The species (lifters from Lepidopus caitdatus in the much shorter 



dorsal and longer anal. D. 103; A. 24. (Named for John Xantus de 



Yesey.) 



Lepidopus caudatiis, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 358 ; not of Euphrasen. 



Lepidopus aantnsi, GooDE & Bean, Ocean. Ichth., 519, 1896; same type; no description. 



Page 889. Trichiurus lepturus is recorded by Storer from Buzzards Bay 

 (1810) and Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1815), and II. M. Smith records it 

 from Woods Hole (1897). 



Page 892. The synonymy at top of page under Tetrapturus iniperaior 

 belongs to the footnote on same page. 



Page 899. Add : 



12S0(a). OLIGOPLITES MUNDUS, Jordan & Starts, new species. 



Head 1; depth 2^; eye 4i. D. V-I, 19; A. II-I, 20. Body deep and 

 compressed. Length of head about 7; greater than its depth at nape; eye 

 equal to snout and to interorbital; maxillary exteudiug considerably 

 beyond vertical from hinder margin of eye, its length If in head; secoud 

 suborbital not over ^ as wide as lowest, and mucii shorter, thus form 

 ing a prominent notch in posterior margin of suborbital bones; a slight 

 emargination in opercle in front of pectoral. Teeth small, sharp, in a 

 band in each jaw, narrow in ujjper. Origin of soft dorsal midway 

 between snout and base of caudal, the anal opposite; the anterior rays 

 of both somewhat produced; second soft ray of each equal to head behind 

 pupil, and equal to pectoral; ventrals equal to f ot pectorals, their inner 

 margins fastened to body; caudal deeply forked, the middle rays 3^ in 

 longest, which are longer than head. Lateral line nearly straight, but 

 forming a broad angle above pectoral. Color silvery on sides, becom- 

 ing darker above; tins colorless. This species difiers from OUgoplitea 

 altua in the much larger mouth and in having the suborbital bone.s notched 

 posteriorly. Olu/oplUes saliens of the West Indies seems to be more elon- 

 gate in body and with the suborbitals even behind as in 0. alttis. Pacific 

 coast of tropical America. 



This description is based on a specimen 11 inches long from San Juan 

 Lagoon, Mexico, at the mouth of Ahome River, collected by the Albatross. 

 Three other specimens from Algodones Lagoon, Mexico (Albatross Coll.), 

 agree in every respect, excejit that 1 of them has but 4 free spines in 

 front of dorsal. 



Numerous other specimens have been since brought by Dr. Gilbert from 

 Panama. 



Oligophitcs m?(>id««, Jordan & Starks, in Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 344. 

 1896, Mazatlan, Mexico; name only. 



Page 909. The Californian species Trachuriis symmefricus is probably a 

 species distinct from T. plcturatus, described from Madeira. The two 

 forms have never been properly compared. 



Page 912. The identity of Hemlcaranx amblyrhijnchus with Caranx fal- 

 catiis, Holbrook, needs proof. The latter species, if distinct, may be de- 

 scribed as follows: 



