860 Bulletin 4y, United States National Museum. 



l^enevs martinicus, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iir, 483, 1829, Martinique; 



young ; Ham, & McCaugiian, 1. c, 154, 1885. 

 T^eneus halteatits, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 484, 1829, Cuba ; young. 

 Upenensflavovitlatuit, Poet, Memorias, I, 224, 1851, Cuba ; adult. 

 MuUoidesjltuovittatus, GCnther, Cat., I, 403, 1859. 



1250, UPENEUS XAXTHOGRAMMTIS, Gilbert. 



Head 31 ; depth 4 to 4^; eye If in snout, 3§ in head, in specimens lOi 

 inches long, (1;^- in snout, 3J in head, in martinicus of the same size.) D. 

 VII-I, 8; A. II, 6. Pores in lateral line 38, not counting two on base of 

 caudal. Two and one-half rows of scales between lateral line and base 

 of spinous dorsal. Fifteen developed gill rakers on horizontal limb of 

 outer arch, with 5 smaller rudiments. Spinous dorsal not high, less than 

 depth of body, li to 1| in liead. Pectorals pointed, scarcely reaching tips 

 of ventrals, li in head. Ventrals reaching halfway to front of anal. 

 Caudal very deeply forked, the lobes sharp, the uj)per the longer, equal- 

 ing the length of head. Barbels reaching vertical from preopercle. 

 Teeth in a narrow band anteriorly in each jaw, and in a single series 

 laterally. Maxillary very wide posteriorly, projecting well beyond the 

 border of the preorbital, its width f orbit. Red, with a broad yellow 

 streak along sides. La Paz, Lower California. Very close to Ujieneus 

 martinicus, the head smaller, the eye much smaller. {^avOoc, yellow; 

 ypa/ifir/, line.) 

 Vpeneus xanthogrammus, Gilbert, Proc. l^. S. Nat. Mu.s., 1891, 553, La Paz. (Coll. Albatross.) 



1251. UPENEUS GRANDISQUAMIS, GiU. 

 (Chivo.) 



Head 3 to 3J ; depth 3 to 3? ; eye 4 ; snout about 2^, D. VIII-I, 8 ; A. 

 1, 6 ; scales 2-30 to 32-5. Teeth on anterior part of jaws in 2 series, those 

 of the outer series of the upper jaw very obtuse and partly confluent. 

 Barbels reaching to vertical from root of pectoral fins. Color light 

 greenish brown above, rose-colored below lateral line; scales with indis- 

 tinct pearly spot at center ; black blotch on lateral line behind spinous 

 dorsal ; a smaller, somewhat indistinct black spot behind orbit ; dorsal 

 fins spotted with color of back ; other fins immaculate. Pacific Coast of 

 Mexico and Central America; Guayraas to Panama ; generally common. 

 (grandis, large; squama, scale.) 



Vpe.ueiis grandisqnamis, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18fi3, 108, west coast of Central 

 America; Steindachner, Ichth. Bmtriigo, iv, 0, 1875 ; Hall & McCaughan, /. <■., 155, 

 1885 ; Kvermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 15C. 



Upenens tetra.ipUus, Gvntuku, Proc. Zoiil. Soc. London, 1804,148, Panama; GCnther, Fislies 

 Cent. Ainer., 420, pi. 00, fig. 1, 1804. 



Group SCOMBROIDEI. 

 (The Mackerel-like Fishes.) 



Body variously formed, usually adapted for rapid swimming; the scales 

 usually small and cycloid or wanting, sometimes transformed into rough 



