32 FISHES OF HAVANA, CUBA. 



taken at different times. There is no zoological laboratory in Cuba, e 

 cept tbe private study of Professor Poey, and here, for \vaut of roo 

 and for other reasons, drawings have, to a gr(?at extent, taken the pla( 

 of specimens." * * * Poey's writings " give some evidence of tl 

 disadvantages arising from solitary work, without tlie aid of the ass 

 ciation and criticism of others, and without tlie broader knowk^lge ( 

 the relations of groups which comes from die study ot more tiian oi 

 fauna. On the other hand, Professor Poey has enjoyed the great a( 

 vantage of an exhaustless supply of material, for there are lew por 

 where fishes are brought in in such quantities or in such profusion < 

 variety as in the markets of Havana." 



Besides my many personal obligations to Professor Poey, I am alt 

 indebted for many favors to Senor Leonel Plasencia, a naturalistco 

 lector in Havana, a former i)upil of Poey, and a very skillful taxidermis 

 To two of the fish-dealers in the Pescaderia Grande, or wholesale marke 

 Senores Jose Kodriguez and Fqlipe Guadalupe, T am also indebted f( 

 intelligent aid in the work of making collections, 



A full series, including nearly all the species here mentioned, has bee 

 sent to the U. S. iSTational Museum. The rest of the collection is in tl 

 museum of the Indiana University. Duplicates from the Key West an 

 Havana collections have also been presented to the British Museum. 



Several of the more important genera of Cuban fishes, as Einnephelu 

 Jlannulon, Galamus. J,ufJanns,'^Scarus, &c., have formed the subject < 

 special papers by myself and my associates or students in these Pri 

 ceedings or in those of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphi; 

 These groui^s are therefore but briefly noticed here. 



SCYLLID-5I. 



1. Ginglyniostonia cirratum Gmelin. 



GAIiEORHINIDiB. 



2. Galeus canis ilitclull. Boca Ihdcc. 



3. Carcharhinus falciformis Bibron. Cazon. 



4. Carcharhinus terrae-novae Eichardson. 



{^. Squahis pnnctatus Mitcliill, preoccupied. Carcliarias (ScoHodoii) lalandi Mii 

 ler &, Heulc. ScoJiodon j^oro.sufi Poey.) 



Specimens from Havana are exactly identical with others from Ke 

 West, which belong unquestionably to C. terrw-novcv. ISg. lalandi i 

 without doubt the same, the difference in the form of the caudal bein 

 doubtless, as Dr. (xiintherhas suggested, due to age. Carcharhinus loi 

 gurio of the Pacific coast is very closely allied to C. terrw-nova'^ but lis 

 a notably longer snout. 



SPHYRNIDiE. 



5. Sphynia tiburo Linn;cns. 

 {liciticejis liburo Poey.) 



