1428 Bidlefin ^7, Ihuted States N'ational ]\hiscum. 



caudal peduncle. Snout blunt, shorter than large eye ; upper jaw slightly 

 projecting, teeth small and sharp, in 1 or 2 irregular series in lower jaw, 

 in several series in upper jaw, the outer row slightly enlarged; maxillary 

 extending to posterior edge of pupil; chin with 4 large pores; edge of 

 preopercle covered with skin, which is serrated on the edge. Gill rakers 

 slender, 9 + 13; scales ctenoid on the hody, cycloid on the head. Spinous 

 dorsal a little higher than soft dorsal; hrst dorsal spine very short, second 

 about 5 times longer, third twice as long as second, third, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth subequal, tlie others rapidly shorter; first anal spine very small, 

 the second many times longer and stouter, but shorter than soft rays; 

 ventrals inserted behind pectorals and reaching beyond them; caudal 

 truncate. Ground color silvery, but so closely set Avith small dark brown 

 points as to almost obscure the silver; sides with about 4 faint dark cross 

 bands and with conspicuous black stripes following the rows of scales, 

 about 11 horizontal stripes below lateral line, those above slanting 

 obliquely upward anteriorly, but becoming horizontal posteriorly ; tips 

 of ventrals and anal black, other fins dusky. Here described from a fine 

 specimen from the Astillero at Mazatlau, 8 inches in length. Pacific Coast 

 of tropical America; recorded only from Mazatlan and Panama; appar- 

 ently rare; our specimens from Mazatlan and l\'inama much darker than 

 Steindachner's type, which was deeper, the depth 2\ in length, {^^laxpoc,, 

 large; oS^, eye.) 



Corvina maerops, Steindachner, Ichtli. Beitr., in, 24, fig. 2, 1875, Panama. 

 Scicena macroiM, Jordan & Gh^bert, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. 1881, 316. 

 Corvula maerops, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 379, 1889; Jordan, Fislien of Siualoa, in 

 Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 468. 



1809. CORA'CLA SI.4LIS, Jordan & Eigenmann. 



Head .Si; depth 2f; eye 5 in head. D. X-I, 28; A. II, 8. Body com- 

 pressed; the back elevated, regularly rounded from snout to posterior 

 margin of soft dorsal ; ventral outline almost straight from cliiu to first 

 anal spine; base of anal oblique ; caudal i^eduncle short and thick. Pro- 

 file slightly convex posteriorly, somewhat depressed over the eyes; snout 

 rather acute, slightly longer than eye; eye 1* in interorbital area; preor- 

 bital tV as wide as eye; mouth moderate; maxillary extending past pupil, 

 its length 2i in head; premaxillary anteriorly on level with the lower 

 border of the orbit; lower jaw included; maxillary broad, not entirely 

 concealed by the preorbital when the month is shut. Teeth of the lower 

 jaw blunt; conical, in 2 series, those of the inner series much larger than 

 those of the outer; upper jaw with a narrow band of villiform teeth and 

 an outer series of larger teeth, which are remote from each other and 

 decrease in size toward the angle of the mouth. Chin with 5 small pores; 

 snout with 6 pores, arranged in a -> shaped figure. Preopercle with 

 a narrow, crenulate, membranous border; opercle with 2 scarcely distin- 

 guishable spines; scapular scale entire. Gill rakers moderately devel- 

 oped, about i as long as the eye, 5 + 12; pseudobranchia^ large. Scales 

 about the head in front of dorsal and on anterior part of breast cycloid, 

 marked with concentric stria-; those on top of the head embedded, indis- 



