Jordan and Evermann. — -Fishes of North America. 1441 



about as high as tlie third spine; anal short, its second spine long and 

 very strong, much stronger than second dorsal spine and longer than 

 the third, its length rather more than | the length of the head ; shorter 

 than soft rays, its ti]) not reaching when depressed to end of soft rays; 

 distance from vent to second anal spine considerably less than length of 

 second anal spine; caudal rounded, the middle rays produced, its length 

 a little less than \ that of head; pectorals broad, reaching almost to 

 vent, about equal to length of head; ventrals not reaching nearly to 

 vent; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal fins thickly scaled to their tips; the 

 spinous dorsal with a thick scaly sheath at base, each spine with a series 

 of scales; other fins move or less scaly. 



Scales large; lateral line with a wide low curve anteriorly, becoming 

 straiglit in front of origin of aual; tubes of lateral line branched ante- 

 riorly. Coloration dusky above, pale below, with some silvery luster ; middle 

 of sides conspicuously ])unctulate; upper fins all brownish, punctulate 

 with darker; ventrals, anal, and pectoral pale; the anal and pectoral 

 dusted with dark points; opercle blackish within; peritoneum dusky 

 silvery. Panama ; not uncommon. In the dentition and form of its mouth 

 it difl'ers from the other species, approaching the genus Bairdiella. {oscitana, 

 yawning.) 

 Seicena vscitans, Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1881, 312, Bay of Panama 



(Coll. C. H. Gilbert) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 376. 

 Sti'lli/erus oscitans, JORDAN & ElGENMANN, I. c, 393, 1889. 



1822. STELLIFER FURTHI* (Steindacliner). 



Head 3|; depth 2f to 3; eye 4f in head. D.XI-I, 23; A. II, 9; scales 

 6-46-10. Body rather short and deep, the back elevated, and the profile 

 steep. Mouth moderate, the maxillary reaching to behind pupil, 2i in 

 head; lower spine of preopercle directed downward and forward; bones 

 of side of head little cavernous; interorbital width more than ^head; 

 mouth low, little oblique, the maxillary reaching to behind pupil, 2^ in 

 head; lower jaw included; teeth of lower jaw subequal, in a narrow villi- 

 form band ; gill rakers rather short, few ; snout short, thick, and blunt, pro- 

 truding beyond the premaxillaries which are on the level of the eye; 

 highest dorsal spine If in head ; second anal spine small, 2^ in head, shorter 

 than soft rays; ventrals 21 in head; pectorals scarcely shorter than head. 

 Color dull silvery, darlcer above; lower fins pale. Panama; not rare. 

 (Named for Ignatius Fiirth, Austrian consul at Panama, who sent a valu- 

 able collection of fishes to Dr. Steindachner at Vienna.) 



Oorvina {Romoprion) furthi, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., Ill, 26, fig. 3, 187,5, Panama. 



(Coll. iKnatiua Fiirth.) 

 Scioena furthi, Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S., Fish Coinm. 1881,315. 

 Stillif ems furthi, .Jordan & Eiqenmann, I. c, 393, 1889. 



* A closely allied species, with larger mouth, Stellifer rastri/er, Jordan, is coniuion on 

 the coast of Brazil, and may be found iu Guiana. 



