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some villiform teeth between the enlarged ones forward; gill 

 rakers moderately short; first soft pelvic ray without fila- 

 mentous tip. Csmoscion Gill (see key to speciesonp. 150). 

 96. Two pungent anal spines. 



11a. First or spiny dorsal fin with second to sixth spines short as length 

 of head, not filamentous. 

 12a. Teeth of upper jaw in a villiform band with outer row enlarged; 

 lower jaw with single row of teeth; lower jaw slightly longer 

 than upper but not entering profile; first soft ray of pelvic 

 fin without filamentous tip; dorsal rays X-I,23 to 25; anal 

 rays 11,9; gill rakers 8 or 9 + 1 + 17 or 18; scale rows about 



50 to 52 Corvula sanctae-luciae Jordan 



126. Teeth of upper jaw very small in one row with 2 or 3 rows 

 posteriorly; lower jaw very oblique, tip of chin projecting, not 

 quite entering profile; teeth of lower jaw small in a single row; 

 first soft ray of pelvic fin with a short filamentous tip; body 

 compressed; dorsal rays X-I,27 to 31; anal rays 11,6; gill 

 rakers about 9 or 10 + 1 + 18 to 20; scale rows about 48 



49 Larimus breviceps Cuvier and Valenciennes 



116. Second to sixth dorsal spines long, filamentous, at least l}i times 

 length of head and when fin is depressed reaching to middle of 

 base of soft dorsal fin; a broad brownish band bordered by a pale 

 band from base of spiny dorsal fin curves downward behind 

 pectoral fin thence posteriorly along midaxis of body, two other 

 dark bands separated by pale ones occur on head, one behind eye 

 and the other through front of eye; median fins pale spotted; 

 dorsal raj's about XIII-47 to 50; anal 11,7. 



Equetus punctatus Bloch 



Genus MENTICIRRHUS Gill 



Menticirrhus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 86. (Genotype, 

 Perca alburnus Linnaeus^ Cyprinus americanus Linnaeus.) 



MENTICIRBHUS MARTINICENSIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Umbrina martinicensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 5, p. 186, 1830 (Martinique). 



U.S.N. M. No. 128252, 1 specimen, 47 mm. in standard length, from Point 

 Macolla, U. S. S. Niagara, April 19, 1925. 



U.S.N. M. No. 128253, 1 specimen, 46 mm., southern coast of the Gulf of 

 Venezuela, U. S. S. Niagara, November 15, 1925. 



U.S.N. M. No. 128254, 3 specimens, 179 to 295 mm,, Estanques Bay, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, December 8 and 12, 1924. 



The following counts were made on the above listed specimens: 

 Dorsal rays X-I,23; X-I,25; X-I,24; X-I,24; X-I,23; anal rays 1,7; 



1,7; 1,7; 1,7; 1,7; pectoral rays —; 23; 22; 22; 22; scales — ; 74; 75; 



82; 79; usually 6 or 7 scales from lateral line to front of soft dorsal 



and 11 or 12 to anal origin; gill rakers about 3 or 4 + 5 to 8 counting 



rudiments; about 50 pores in the lateral line. 



