Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1365 



Very likely it is the common European picarel, Spicara smaris (L.), and it 

 may have come from the coasts of France. Errors of locality are common 

 in museums, and the "Cabinet du Eoi" has not been exempt from them. 

 (Name from Martinique. ) 



Smaris martinieug, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 424, 1830, Martinique. 

 Spicara martinica, Jordan & Feslee, I. c, 527, 1893. 



558. EMMELICHTHYS, Kichardsou. 



Emmelichthys, Richardson, Voyage Erebus ami Tenor, Fishes, 47, 184G (nitidus). 

 Erythrichthys, Tejimixck & Schlegel, Fauua Japonica, Poiss., 117, 1847 (schlegcli). 

 Boxaodon, Guichenot, in Gay, Hi,st. Chili, 11, 208, 1847 (eyanescens). 

 Dipterygonotu^, Bleekeb, Contr. Ichth. Celebes, 1848 (leucogrammicus). 

 Inermia, Poey, Memorias, 11, 193, 1860 (viltata). 



Body elongate, not much compressed, covered with moderate scales; 

 head long; mouth moderate, oblique, premaxillaries excessively protrac- 

 tile; teeth 'obsolete ; maxillary broad, scaly; lower jaw projecting; axil- 

 lary scale large, jireoperc lo entire or serrulate; opercle ending in n point. 

 Dorsal fins separate, tlie first with slender spines, 1 or 2 of them free 

 from membrane; soft dorsal short and low, naked, with a sheath of scales 

 at base; both fins ])oiuted behind; anal spines obscure; caudal widely 

 forked. Pyloric ccpca few. This genus contains about 5 species, bright 

 colored fishes, inhabiting rather deep water or going in schools in the open 

 seas. The species are not well known, and each one of them has been 

 made the type of a distinct genus by authors not acquainted with related 

 forms. We are not quite certain that Hmmelichthys is prior to Eriithrich- 

 thys, nor are we sure that but one genus of JCmmelichthyhuv should be 

 recognized. Our species, called Inermia {inermis, unarmed), agrees with 

 Emmelichthys in having a rounded preopercle, that of Erythrichthys being 

 nearly a right angle. Erythrichthys has larger scah>s and a very broad, 

 scaly maxillary. Emmelichthys has the maxillary moderate, while in 

 Inermia it is figured as narrow. (£/', within ; jiieXag, black ; /^duj, fish. ) 



Subgenus INERMIA, Poey. 

 1742. EMJIELRHTHYS VITTATUS (Poey). 



(B0<iA. ) 



Head 4; depth 4f ; eye 3^ in head; snout 3. D. XI, III-I, 10; A. Ill, 9; 

 scales 100. Vertebra' 12+14. Body slender, fusiform, back rounded, the 

 section of the body forming an oval of which the small diameter is f the 

 large. Maxillary narrow, not wider than pupil, extending beyond front 

 of eye, about 2^ in head; jaws subequal; premaxillary processes very 

 long; jaws without teeth; pharyngeal teeth present; jireorbital moderate, 

 i diameter of eye; preopercle with its vertical limb entire, the angle 

 with flat, thin serr*, the outline rounded, the bone cavernous anteriorly; 

 lower jaw not cavernous; opercle with a rough point; nostrils small, 

 placed high ; lower jaw without ]>ores; lateral line with a slight keel pos- 

 teriorly. Body everywhere with small scales except on tip of snout; 



