Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 979 



identical with Feniphcris ■schomhurgki. (Named for tlio noted comparative 

 anatomist, Prof. Johannes Miiller, who wrote on the fishes of Barbados.) 



Pempheris vililleri, Poey, Memorias, ii, 203, 1860, Cuba; (the later reimiheris mnlleri of Klun- 



zinger is a different species). 

 Pempheris schombunjki, JouuAN, Troc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1*86, 38, aud 1890, 317; perhaps uot of 



MiJLLEB & TbOSCUEL. 



1378. PExtlPHERIS POEYI, Bean. 



Head 3 ; depth 2i ; eye 2i ; snout 2 in eye. D. IV, 8 ; A. Ill, 24 ; scales 

 2-56-12. Maxillary about i as long as head, its posterior extremity 

 very much widened ; mandible slightly longer than maxilla, its length 

 nearly i greatest height of body; width of iuterorbital space equal to i 

 length of maxillary ; origin of dorsal slightly behind vertical through 

 origin of ventral ; distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal not 

 much more than length of anal base; longest dorsal ray sliglitly exceed- 

 ing i length of head ; origin of dorsal fin considerably in advance of 

 middle of total length; origin of anal directly under end of dorsal; 

 length of anal base equal to greatest height of body and not much in 

 excess of length of head ; origin of ventral almost directly under that of 

 dorsal ; third ray of ventral as long as eye ; pectoral 4 in body ; caudal 

 imperfect in type. Cuba. Only the type known. (Beau.) Named for 

 Prof. Felipe Poey, who collected the type of the species.) 



Pempheris poeiji. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 229, Havana. (Type, No. 37181. ColL 

 Poey.) 



Group PERCOIDEA.* 

 (The Perch-like Fishes.) 



A group of fishes of diverse habits and forms, but on the whole, repre- 

 senting better than any other the typical Acanthopterygian fish. The 

 group is incapable of concise definition, or, in geueral, of any definition 

 at all; still, most of its members are definitely related to each other, and 

 bear in one way or another a resemblance to the typical form, the perch, 

 or more strictly to its marine relatives, the sea bass or *SerraH(f^''. The 

 following analysis gives most of the common characters of the group: 



Body usually oblong, covered with scales, which are typically ctenoid, 

 not smooth nor spinous, and of moderate size. Lateral line typically 

 present and concurrent with the back. Head usually compressed later- 

 ally, and with the cheeks and opercles scAly. Mouth various, usually 

 terminal and with lateral cleft, the teeth various, but typically pointed, 

 arranged in bands on the jaws, vomer, and palatine bones; gill rakers 

 usually sharp, stoutish, armed with teeth ; lower pharyngeals almost 

 always separate, usually armed with cardiform teeth; third upper 



* As these sheets are passing through the ))ress we have received, through the courtesy of our 

 friend. Dr. G. A. Boulenger, of the Briti.sli Miiseuni, proof slieets of the first volume of his 

 " Catalogue of the Percifonn Fishes in the British Museum." This gives promise of being, like 

 its prototype. Dr. Giintlier's "Catalogue of i\w Fishes of the British Museum," a monumental 

 work indispensable to all students of fishes. We have made free ref rence to Dr. Boulenger's 

 conclusions in those geucra of Perciformes or Pcrcuidea, iu which hia work is printed iu advauce 

 of ours. 



