Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of JSForth America. 1111 



head with numerous silver-centered brown spots. Caudal, dorsal, and 

 anal fins dark, with dusky cross bars. Total length 1 inch, 7.5 lines; 

 head 7.5 lines. Bahamas; one siiecimen known. (Cope.) {utellaiiis, 

 with starry spots.) 

 Apogonichlhys sldlatHs, Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, 186G, 400, Nassau, Bahama Islands. 



1.50;. APOUOMCHTHYS PUNCTICULATUS, Pooy. 



Head 3t in total ; depth 3f . D. VI-1, 9 ; A. II, 8 ; scales .3-30-8 ; eye 2i, 

 twice length of snout. Preopercle with both margins entire ; mouth 

 oblique, the maxillary reaching to posterior margin of pupil ; teeth in 

 villiform bands ; ventral reaching beyond pectoral to middle of anal tin. 

 Scales cycloid. Reddish with blue reflections on the opercle ; head and 

 middle of trunk covered with black sjiecks, as are also the fins, except 

 the pectoral, which is blackish at the tip. Cuba. (Poey.) Not seen by 

 us. {i)uncticuJatus, with fine specks.) 



Apogoniclithijs piincticidatns, Poey, Eepertorio, li, 233, 1867, Cuba. 



483. GLOSSAMIA, Gill. 



Glossatnia, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 82, {aprioyi). 



This genus contains a few species with small, cycloid scales, 40 to 4d in 

 the lateral line, and the preopercle entire. The anal is short, as in Apogon 

 and Apogoniclithys, its rays being about II, 9. {yh'oaaa, tongue; 

 Amia^:^ Apogon.) 



1508. GLOSSAMIA PANDIONIS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4; depth 4. D. VII-I, 9; A. II, 8; scales small, cycloid, 3-45-9. 

 Body oblong, rather robust, not elevated nor greatly compressed. Eye 

 very large, forming nearly half the length of the side of the head, much 

 greater than the interorbital space; maxillary as long as eye, extending 

 to opposite front of pupil; preopercle entire. Gill rakers very long and 

 slender. Mouth oblique, but not nearly vertical, the lower javr projecting. 

 Teeth in jaws very feeble ; feeble teeth on vomer and palatines. Fins 

 low ; caudal well forked. Color nearly plain reddish, the body and fins 

 everywhere speckled with fine dots. Deep water, off^ Chesapeake Bay ; 

 rare. (Pandion, the Osprey, named for the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion steamer. Fish Hawk, by which the species was dredged.) 



Apogoii pandionis,GooT)F.&'B-EAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,lS81, 160, deep water, off Chesapeake 

 Bay. (Type, No. 26228.) 



484. EPIGONUS,* Ratinesque. 



Eplgonu)!, RAFiNESQrE, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 64, 1810, {maooplhahmis = telescopium). 



romaiomus, Cuvier & Vaienciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 11, 171, 1828, {telescopium, not of Lac£p£de). 



Telescops, Bleeker, Archiv. Neerl., xi, 261, 1876, (lelescopiunt). 



Pomatomichthys, GiGLlOLi, Elenco Pesci Italia, 1880, 80, {constancise = telescc^inni). 



*The name Pom«toi»i(.« ran not lie used for this genus. Pomnlomii.i w.is orifrinally framed by 

 Lacepedefor the biuefisti, hW" Fnmutoiiiiis «Ai7.." Later, in 1810, Risso described tlio typo of 

 Epigoiiux, referring it to /'..m.<^)7m'^■ as a second species of that genus. Cuvier arbitrarily renamed 

 the bluefish Temnodon and retained romalnmus for the typo of Epigonus, a form unknown to 

 Lacepede. In defiance of rules of nomenclature, most European writers have followed Cuvier 

 in this arrangement. 



