Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1355 



trals 1| to 2 in head. Scales large, in about 5 vertical series on cheeks. 

 Color dull silveiy with pearly markings, without blue stripes; a faint 

 pale streak below eye; axil with a small inky black spot; ventrals black- 

 ish; dark crossbars on body usually persistent. A small specimen in the 

 museum at Cambridge, which may be the type of Poey's rar/ellus huiniUs, 

 belongs to this species. This exami>le is 6 inches long, the eye nearly 4 in 

 head, the depth 21 in length, and the pectoral as long as head. The type 

 of Calamus microps Guichenot, is in the museum at Paris. It agrees with 

 Calamus innna in all respects except the size of the eye, which is 4i in 

 head. Southern Florida to Pu-azil, common ; known from Charlotte Harbor, 

 Key West, Rio Janeiro, St. Thomas, Havana, Camaru, and Rio Grande do 

 Sul. {peuna, a (|uill or pen.) 



I'agcUus i^enna, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pois.s., vi, 209, 1830, Brazil. 

 Pa(jeUus microps, Guiohenot, iu Eamou de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 188, pi. 3, tig. 1, 1845, 



Havana. 

 Pngcllus humilis, Poey, Synopsis, 308, 1868, Havana. 

 Pagellus milneri, Goode ic P.ean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 134, Charlotte Harbor, 



Florida. (Type, No. 6134. Coll. C. B. Baker.) 

 Orammateus humilix, Poey, Ennmeratio, 56, 1875. 

 Sparxis milneri, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 556. 

 Calamus penna, Jordan &, Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 21 ; Jordan & Fesler, 



i.e., 514. 



1729. CALAMUS ARCTIFROXS, Goode & Bean. 



(Grass Porgy; Shad Poroy.) 



Head 3i ; depth 2? ; scales 6-48-13. D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 10. P.ody oblong, 

 the back little elevated, not nearly so much as in C. penna, the anterior 

 profile unevenly curved, very convex before eye; head narrow above; 

 dorsal outline not forming a regular arch, the anterior profile straight 

 from l)ase of spinous dorsal to nape, where a rather sharp angle is formed, 

 thence straightish above eye, the snout convex; neai'ly straight along 

 base of spinous dorsal ; scales on cheek in 4 or ti series ; the orbitals, snout, 

 chin, and edge of preopercle, naked. Preorbital deep, its depth 2^ in head, 

 and nearly twice diameter of eye, which is 4 to 5 in head; pectoral Sf iu 

 body, reaching past tips of ventrals; longest dorsal spine 2A iu head; 

 third anal spine the longest, 5; canine teeth 8-10; gill rakers small and 

 blunt, about 4 + 6. Color olivaceous with dark bars or spots, the centers 

 of many scales pearly; 6 yellowish spots along the lateral line; pre- 

 orbital brownish, usually with dashes of golden yellow; membrane of 

 opercle orange; fins mostly barred or spotted; ventrals pale, faintly 

 l>arred. Gulf of Mexico, from Pensacola to Key West; a small porgy 

 common in the eelgrass about Key West, and ranging northward at least 

 to Pensacola; not known from the West Indies, (arctus, contracted; 

 frons, forehead.) 



Calamus arclifrons, GooDE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 425, Pensacola (Type, 

 No. 30163. Coll. Silas Stearns); Jordan <fc Gilbert, Synopsis, 928: Jordan cV 

 Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 23 ; Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 

 232; Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 514. 



