ADDENDA 88. SPARID^ — CALAMUS. 
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of montb orange; fins pale; young with 5 or 6 dark olive bars; caudal 
faintly barred. Body deep, the back considerably elevated; muzzle 
prolonged, the profile somewhat arched ; eye large, 3| in head. Canine 
teeth rather long and strong, all similar, usually about 8 in each jaw 
outside of the cardiform band. Caudal deeply forked; anal spines 
graduated; pectoral long, somewhat longer than head, reaching past 
anal spines. Depth of preorbital 2^ in head. Head 3^ ; depth 2 . D. 
XII, 12; A. Ill, 10. Tropical America, north to South Carolina and 
Lower California. 
(Sparvs hajonado Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 284: Fagelhis caninus Poey, 
Mem. Cuba, ii, 4G8, 1801: Calamus hajonado Poey, Ann. Lyc. Hist. N. Y. x, 170, 1872: 
Spar us bracliysomus Lockington Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1880, 280.) 
876 (d). C. naacrops Poey. 
Pale olivaceous, somewhat silvery; sides with obscure olivaceous 
bauds, especially in the young ; jireorbital not striped; veutrals pale. 
Body broad-ovate, compressed, the back elevated, the anterior profile 
slightly curved, not very steep. Preorbital deeper than long, its depth 
nearly half head. A sharp-edged bony prominence before eye. Eye 
large, 3 in head, about as long as maxillary. Front teeth slender, little 
enlarged, about 12 in the outer series in each jaw; molars rather small, 
in 3 rows above and 2 below. Scales above lateral line, in series par- 
allel with the lateral line. Procumbent spine of dorsal concealed. Fins 
low; caudal moderately forked. Pectoral long, a little longer than 
head, reaching second anal spine, which is little enlarged, little longer 
than third. Head 3J; depth 23 ^-. D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 11; scales 
7-53-17. Cuba, north to Garden Key, Florida. 
(Calamus macrops Poey, Aun. Lyc. N<at. Hist. N. Y. x, 181, 1872.) 
876 (e). C. arctafeoms Goode & Bean. 
Light olive, with bright refiections ; sides with obscure dark cross- 
bars; head without distinct markings; fins nearly plain, all i)ale. 
Body oblong-ovate, more elongate than usual in this genus, the ante- 
rior j)rofile being very convex. Mouth rather large ; maxillary 2^ in 
head, reaching front of orbit. Front teeth in both jaws rather strong, 
all similar, somewhat canine-like, 6 to 8 in each jaw ; upper molars in 
2 rows anteriorl^^ and 3 iiosteriorly ; lower in 2 rows ; a conspicuous 
pore with a dermal flap on each side of snout. Preorbital very deep, 
its depth 3^ in head. Eye small, 3f in head, placed very high. Dorsal 
spines slender, the longest 3f in head, about equal to longest soft ray. 
Anal spines small, graduated, the third 4 in head. Caudal deeply 
