Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 941 



The young of tbis species has iiot yet beeu described. Length 13 inches. 

 Tropical America, fioui Virginia to the Caribbean Sea, generally common 

 from Carolina to Florida; a very handsome fish, not highly valued. 

 (glaucus, ylavKo^, hoary blue. ) 



Chstodon glaucHs, Bloch, Ichtliyol., pi. 210, 1787, Martinique ; on a ligun- Iiy PuraiiER. 

 TVac/iiHo/Hss^aHCHs, CiviEU it Vai.en'ciknnks, Hist. Nat. Pciiss., viu,4()0, 18:!!; Jordan AGilbeut, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 270, T882; Juuu.'VN & Gilbert, Synopsis, 443, 188:5; Meek &Goss, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. Phihi... 122, 1884. 

 Trachynotus glaucus, Guntueb, Cat.,ii, 483, 1800; Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 438, 18G2. 



1336. TRACHINOTUS RHODOPUS, Gill. 

 (Pampanito.) 



Head 'Si : depth 2. D. VI-T, 20 ; A. II-I, 18. Body more elevated than 

 in Trachinotus (jh^vucus, the snout lower and the anterior profile much 

 more straight; mouth rather large, oblique, the Jaws nearly eiiuul ; the 

 snout low, somewhat prominent. Anterior rays of dorsal and anal much 

 produced, reaching nearly to middle of caudal in the adult, short in the 

 young ; caudal deeply forked, its lobes 2i in body. Ventrals short, not 

 reaching vent. Bluish green above, silvery below ; sides with 5 short, 

 narrow, vertical, blackish stripes, the first two nearer together than the 

 others, the last two sometimes reduced to spots; these bauds always 

 faint, obsolete in the young, in Avhich the vertical fins are also much 

 lower; caudal, dorsal, and anal lobes largely of a bright maroon color, 

 or orange brown in life, the anterior edge blackish, shading oft' into 

 pinkish, this color present at all ages. Pacific Coast of tropical 

 America to Panama ; very common on sandy shores, replacing Tradtinotus 

 glaucus, which it much resembles. The dift'erence in profile is constant and 

 characteristic. Not much valued as food. Length 2 feet. (/3u(56f, rose-col- 

 ored; noi'c, foot.) 



Trachynotus rhodopus. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18G3, 85, Cape San Lucas; (Coll. 



Xantus); young, 2 inches long. 

 .*2Vat7(;/"o(Hs «((.««(»«, Gill, /. c, 1863, 8o, Cape San Lucas; (Coll. Xantus); youngof 1 inch, 



possibly young of T. kennedyi. 

 Trachynotus fa^ciatus, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 86, Panama; Gi'xther, Fish. Centr. 



Amer., 434, 1869; Meek & Gos.s, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1884, 123. 

 Trachynotus tjlavcoidcf, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 150, San Jose de Guatemala. 



1337. TRACHINOTUS FALCATIIS* (Linnaus). 

 (Round P.vmpano; Palometa.") 



Head 3|; depth If. D. VI-I, 19; A. II-I, 18. Body broadly ovate, 

 moderatelj' compressed, profile very evenly convex from procumbent spine 

 to level of upper edge of eye, where it descends almost vertically. The 

 vertical portion is about 1^ times the eye; length of snout nearly equal 

 to eye ; mouth nearly horizontal ; maxillary reaching to vertical from 

 middle of eye, its length 2it in head ; jaws without teetii in adult ; dorsal 



♦Should 7Vac/a">ioh(s /alcohis prove to be identical witli the East Indian T. oi-a(u«, as Beveral 

 writers have supposed, the American name, falcatns, has precedence of date. 



