584- CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
920. G. argewtejas (Baird & Girard) Giiiither. 
Silvery, without spots or streaks on body or fins; young sometimes 
barred. Mouth very small, maxillary reaching slightly beyond vertical 
from front of eye ; scales large ; spinous part of dorsal as long as soft ; 
second dorsal spine scarcely half the length of head; soft dorsal 
extending a little further back than anal. Eye 3 in head Plead 3|; 
depth 3. D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 7 or 8. Xew Jersey to North Carolina. 
(Euciiiostomus argenteus Baird & Girard, Ninth Smithsonian Report, 1854, 335.) 
921. G. hom©BayiMUS (Goode & Bean) J. & G. 
Silvery, brownish above, centre of scales with a darker spot ; a black 
spot on spinous dorsal ; young with transverse dark bars. Body oblong, 
compressed, highest at front of spinous dorsal ; profile steep, not arched ; 
mouth horizontal, maxillary reaching to below eye ; eye large. Head 3f 
in length; depth 2^; eye 3 in head. D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 8. L. lat. about 
40. {Baird & Girard.) Atlantic coast of the United States; abundant 
southward. 
{DhqHerns liomonymus Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. ii, 340, 1879: Eucinosto- 
mus argenteus Girard, U. S. Mes. Bound. Snrv. Ichth. 1859, 17, not of B. & G. : Gtrres 
argenteus Giiuther, iv, 2.56.) 
922. G. liaB’CBBgSBlMS (Goode &: Beau) J. & G. 
“The height of the body is contained 3 to 3j times in the total length 
without camlal, the length of the head 3J to 3J times; the diameter of 
the eye excels the length of the snout and is contained 3 times in the 
length of the head and equals the width of the interorbital space; the 
groove for the i)rccesses of the intermaxillaries is naked and extends to 
the vertical through the anterior third of the eye ; the free portion of 
the tail is longer than high ; the least height of tail equals the length of 
the 6th dorsal spine ; the 3rd dorsal spine is the longest, its length being 
contained twice in the height of the body and equals the length of the 
head without the postorbital portion ; the last dorsal spine equals in 
length the 2d anal, and about equals the length of the snout, and is about 
as long as the 3d ; the first dorsal ray is fully IP times as long as the 
1st dorsal spine ; the 2d anal spine is stronger and shorter than the 3rd, 
its length being contained 3| in the length of the head; the 3d anal 
spine is contained 3p times in the length of the head; the caudal is 
forked, its length slightly less than the length of the head, and very 
little greater than the length of the pectoral ; the pectoral reaches to 
the perpendicular through the origin of the soft dorsal. The ventral is 
half as long as the head; the vent is under the 2d ray of the soft dor- 
