950 Bulletin 4J, United States National Museum. 



Eleoiris mauritii, Bloch & Schneiber, Syst. Ichth., GG, 1801, Brazil; after Prince Maurice. 

 GohiomorHS gronovianus, Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 5S4, 1799; after Gronow. 

 Nomeus maculoms, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc, i, 1831, 14G, East Indies. 

 Seriola aryi/romelaa, Cuvier & Valenciennes, IIi.st. Nat. Poiss., ix, j)l. 202, 1833. 

 Nomenn maculaliiit, Valenciennes, in Cuvier, Resne Anini., in, Poiss., pi. 56, fig. 2. 

 Nomeus oxyiirus, POEY, Memorias, ii, 23G, 1860, Havana. 



432. PSENES, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Psenen, Cuviee & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 259, 1833, ('•i/aiioj)//?-)/.'!). 

 Oubicejjs, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, 82, {gracilis). 

 Atimoskima, Smith, 111. Zoiil. S. Africa, Fish., \i\. xxiv, about 1842, {capense). 

 Nav(irclm.% De Filippi and Verany, Mem. Accad. Sci. Turin, 2d ser., xviii, 7, {/tnlcatns). 

 Trachelocirrns, Doumet, Piev. et Mag. Zoijlogie, 1863, pi. xv, {mediterrannvK). 



Body compressed, covered witli cycloid scales of moderate size. Mouth 

 narrow, beneath the short, swollen snout. First dorsal with 6 to 10 spines; 

 second dorsal and anal much longer, similar, without finlets ; anal spines 

 3, joined to soft part of fin ; pectorals larger than ventrals. Lateral line 

 unarmed. Small teeth in jaws. Branchiostegals 5 to 7. Warm seas, 

 known chiefly from very young specimens; found in the open ocean. 

 {■^p'uvri, the osprey, Pandion, the allusion not evident.) 



a. Dorsal rays about XI, I, 34; anal rays III, 34; body deep; unspotted. PELLtJCinus, 1348. 



00. Dorsal rays X, I, 25 to 27; anal rays III, 25 to 27; sides with parallel dark streaks; body 



deep. CYANOPHRYS, 1349. 



aaa. Dorsal rays XI, I, 22 or 23; anal rays III, 23; body oblong, much blotched ami banded. 



maculatus, 1350. 

 aaaa. Dorsal rays X, I, 15; A. Ill, 15; body oblong, much spotted and mottled. 



REGULUS, 1351. 



1348. PSENES PELLUCIDrS, Liitken. 



Head 4; depth 2i; eye 2:| ; snout 4. D. XII, 34; A. Ill, 134. Body 

 high, short, and compressed. Pectorals li in head; ventrals as long as 

 head, extending considerably beyond the end of pectorals ; vertical fins 

 quite high, H in head, showing a tendency to become falcate jiosteriorly; 

 caudal fin furcate. Lateral line placed high ; scales small. Dentition as 

 in the other species of the genus ; teeth in the maxillary finer and 

 farther apart than in the mandible ; end of maxillary reaching to verti- 

 cal from anterior margin of pupil. Nearly colorless and semitransparent. 

 Deep seas, one specimen taken at 32° 24'' N., 76° 55'' W., in 528 fathoms, 

 by the Albatross. (Goode & Bean.) (peUucidus, transparent.) 



Paenef! 2>elluci(hifi, LiiTKEN, Spolia Atlautica, 516 (109), fig. 601 (198), 1880, Strait of Surabaja; 

 Goode & Bean, Ocean. Ichth., 221, fig. 228, 1895. 



1349. PSEXES CTANOPHRTS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Head 4; depth 1*. D. X, I, 25 to 27; A. Ill, 25 to 27. Snout short, 

 truncate, as long as eye; lower jaw slightly projecting ; soft dorsal and 

 anal scaly. Body brownish, with dark parallel lines of dots along the 

 rows of scales, sometimes a bluish streak above each eye. Open 

 sea, widely distributed, in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans; 



