5G0 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
depth 2. I). XII, 14; A. Ill, 13; scales C-G3-14. L. 5 inches. North 
Carolina to Cuba; abundant at Beaufort, N. C. 
(Sar(/us candinutcnla Poey, Memorias, ii, 198, 1858: Sargiis liolbrooM Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 379 ; not of Bean.) 
2§§.— GIREL,I.A Gray. 
(Camarina Ayres.) 
(Gray, Illnstr. Ind. Zool. 1838: type Girella 2 nmctata Gray .) 
Bo<ly oblonn-ovate, compressed, covered with rather large scales. 
Month small, with a series of flat, tricuspid, movable incisors, behind 
which is a broad band of similar smaller ones; no molar teeth; no 
teeth on vomer or tongue. Cheeks with very small scales; opercles 
and top of head chiefly naked. Dorsal fin rather low, with about 14 
spines, on the bases of which the scales extend, forming an imperfect 
sheath; no groove at base of dorsal; no iirocumbent dorsal spine; anal 
s])ines small, graduated ; caudal lunate. Air-bladder divided into two 
posterior horns. Pyloric coeca numerous; intestinal canal elongate; 
l)eritoneum black. Herbivorous. Pacific Ocean. (A latiuization of the 
French ‘ ‘ GireUe ” = Juli s. ) 
886. O. Migracanss (Ayres) Gill. — Blue-fish. 
Dusky green, paler below; young with a large yellowish spot on 
each side of the dorsal fin. Body oval, compressed, with very deep 
caudal peduncle; snout thick, its profile evenly rounded; mouth 
small, subinferior, low, nearly horizontal; maxillary reaching nearly to 
front of orbit ; a minute patch of iialatine teeth ; iireopercle minutely 
serrulate at its angle ; preorbital as broad as eye. Cill-rakers numerous, 
rather long. Scales firm, weakly ctenoid, those on thorax and front of 
back smaller. Dorsal spines lower than the soft rays; anal higher than 
soft dorsal, similar to it; caudal emarginate; pectorals short and broad, 
not reaching vent; ventrals short. Head 4; depth 2|. D. XIY, 14; A. 
Ill, 12; Lat. 1. 50. L. 12 inches. Coast of California, from Monterey 
southward, abundant in rocky places, feeding on sea-weed. 
{Camarina nigricans Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 18G0, 81: Girella dorsoniacula 
Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 244.) 
289.— PIinELEPTERUS Lac^pbde, 
(Lac^^ifede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 429, 1802: type Pimelcpterus hosci, Lac<5pede.) 
Body regularly ovate, moderately compressed; head short, with 
blunt snout; eye large; mouth small, horizontal; maxillary barely 
reaching front of eye; both jaws with a single series of rather narrow 
