VOL. XI 

 1891. 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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Color iu life: dirty yellowish wliice, covered with dark yellowish spots, 

 thickest on the back, these cliaiiginj? to brown in alcohol; iielly with 

 few or no spots; tii) of lower jaw darker; iris oran«;e; ptictoral and 

 anal fins blue. The young have a bhick lateral band from above the 

 eye straight to the middle of the soft dorsal, another from the eye to 

 tiie upper base of the caudal fin, and still a third from the pectoral to 

 the lower base of the caudal. 



These colors make it a very handsome fisli when alive. 



The teeth are less developed than in most species of the genus, and 

 the dorsal fin has its last si)ines much shorter than the first few. These 

 are the characters which (iirard used to separate his genus Paralabrax 

 from SerraiiKS, and if these be of generic importance, tliis species will, 

 of course, fall in Paralabrax. Head 2'^ ; depth 3^ ; eye in head 5 ; scales 

 12-82-20; D. X. U; A. Ill, 7. ^ • 



Measurements (iu millimetres) of nine specimens give the following 

 results : 



Total length 



Leu;:tli to biiso of caudal 



HlMll 



Ueptli 



JC>e 



Snout 



Inteioibital 



I'lfoibital 



Pectoral 



V ent I al 



Longest dorsal spine (fourtb) 



L(>n;;ost dorsal ray 



Longest anal spine (third) 



Longest anal ray 



Head iu leugtb to base of caudal 

 Depth in length to base of caudal 

 Eye in head 



470 



162 



135 



50 



35 



10 



15 



9 



7 



30 



27 



25 



15 



12 



17 



471 



39 



160 



125 



50 



35 



10 



14 



8 



6 



29 



27 



25 



10 



11 



21 



2/o 

 3? 



2J 



3f 



5 



155 



125 



50 



35 



10 



15 



9 



7 



30 



25 



23 



20 



14 



2J 



3* 



90 



283 

 233 

 89 

 05 

 15 

 25 

 11 

 15 

 48 

 44 

 42 

 32 

 18 

 34 



3 13 



6 



835 



212 

 202 

 75 

 60 

 14 

 22 

 13 

 12 

 40 

 39 

 41 

 20 

 13 

 30 



2J 



3i 



50. Promicrops guttatus (L.). 

 Merito of the fishermen. 



One small specimen 116 millimetres long. Head 2| (3) ; depth 5f 

 (3^) ; eye in head 5 — equal to snout. D. XI, 15; A. Ill, 7 ; scales about 

 85. 



All of the Pacific coast references to P. itaiara mean this species. 



51. Mycteroperca jordani Jeukins &, Everniann. 



Baya. 

 (Plate I.) 

 Einnqyhehis jordani Jenkins & Everm.ann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18S8, 140 (Gnaymas). 

 Kather common. This interesting and valuable food fish is known as 

 Baya by the local fishermen. 



If Mycteroperca and Epinephcliis are to be separated, as they perhaps 

 should be, this species belongs in the first. 



