NO. 2133. FISHL'S TAKEN BY "ALBATROSS;^ ISSS—THOilPSON. 407 



larger specimens, 265 mm. in total length, the area from between the 

 ventral bases to the anus is a bright silvery color, as is the lateral 

 stripe. Gill rakers 10 + 30; vertebrae 50; D. V., I., 10; A. I. 17; 

 scales 60, in transverse between dorsal and anal insertions 15; nD 

 vomerine teeth, those on jaws in two rows. 



9. SCIAENA (OPHIOSCION) ADUSTA (Agassiz). 



Very numerous specimens of this species from Montevideo cor- 

 respond closely to the description and figure given by Agassiz, but 

 not to that by Jordan and Eigenmann, in their lieviow of the 

 Sciaenidae.^ The latter authors identified with this species specimens 

 with the soft dorsal rays numbering 22 and 23, whereas Agassiz dis- 

 tinctly gives 28, and our specimens uniformly have D. XI, 28, without 

 variation. This mistake is surprising when it is seen that Jenyns ^ 

 and Giuither ^ both give this ray formula and the former presents an 

 excellent description. Six of the largest specimens at hand give the 

 following counts: 



D. XI, 28; A. II, 7 or 8; scales in lateral line, 50-54, in transverse 

 series between insertions of dorsal and anal 7/10; longest specimen 

 210 mm. in total length. 



It is probable that the species of Jordan and Eigenmann is referable 

 to Sciaena gilli (Steindachner) . 



10. ?TRACmNOTUS GOODEI Jordan and Evermann. 



ITrachinotus goodei Jordan and Evekmann, Fish. North and Middle America, 

 vol. 1, 189G, p. 943. Key West. 



Five specimens from Montevideo (market?) between 16 and 19 cm. 

 in total length. This is the first record of this species so far south, 

 it having been previously regarded as confined to the West Indies. 



Head 3^ in body length to base of caudal; depth, 1|; eye 3f in 

 head; maxillary 2|; about 100 pores in lateral hue; depth caudal 

 peduncle, 3 in head; D. VI, I, 19; A. II, I, 17; Gill rakers x + 12. 



Tip of i^remaxillaries at lower level of eye, snout rising in a curve 

 having a point on posterior border of eye as center of arc, until above 

 nostrils; remaining distance to dorsal weakly convex; maxillary 

 reaching to a vertical line from center of eye; lobes of dorsal and 

 anal reaching somewhat beyond middle of base of fins when laid back 

 against them; caudal lobes equal, 2§ in body length to base of caudal; 

 scales minute, a patch behind eye, obscure in some specimens; lateral 

 line but slightly arched anteriorly. 



Color uniformly silvery, lobes of dorsal and anal black; those of 

 caudal dark, as are the pectorals. 



Those specimens have been compared v/itli the type of Tracliinotus 

 goodei, which is but 5 cm. long, and are found to differ 2)rin(;ipally in 



1 Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1886 (1889), pp. 398 and 403. 



2 Voy. Beagle, p. 42. 



3 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas,, vol. 11, p. 2s9. 



