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record size for P. itaiara of 551 pounds and a length of 100 inches, 

 caught in Galveston Bay, Texas, by G. Pangarakis, exceeds all other 

 verified size records for all species of sea bass as far as I can find. 



George C. Miller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo- 

 graphed a large specimen of Promicrops (probably P. itaiara) 

 that was caught by A. K. Freeman off the Loffa River, Liberia, De- 

 cember 1953. This large sea bass had its rear third or more bitten 

 off (presumably by a big shark), but the anterior portion when landed 

 weighed 293 pounds and still was about 4}^ or 5 feet long. Photographs 

 of this specimen are in the files of the division of fishes. 



Family PSEUDOCHROMIDAE 

 Volume 1, page 398 



Robert F. Inger (Pacific Sci., vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 259-276, figs. 1-4, 

 1955) revised the genus Plesiops. This careful study requires correc- 

 tions to be made in regard to my tentative identifications made on 

 pages 398^00. 



P. nigricans Riippell is confined to the Red Sea, and as far as it is 

 known, it has never been collected elsewhere. The specimens re- 

 ported by me as P. nigricans are now identified as P. corallicola 

 Bleeker (Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl-Indie, vol. 4, p. 280, 1853; type 

 locahty, Priamam, Sumatra). 



Those identified by me as P. melas on page 400 are now identified 

 as P. coeruleolineatus Riippell (Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von 

 Abysinnien gehorig, Fische, p. 5, pi. 2, fig. 5, 1835; type locaUty, Red 

 Sea). P. melas Bleeker is a synonym. 



Family CARANGIDAE 

 Volume 1, page 509 



To specimens studied under Trachinotus bailloni, add 1 specimen, 

 22.5 mm., Agfayan Point, Guam, collected by M. H. Markley, July 7, 

 1945. 



To the genus Trachinotus add : 



TRACHINOTUS BLOCHII (LacepSde) 



Caesiomorus blochii LacepIide, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 95, pi. 3, 

 middle figure, 1802 (no locality given). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Guam: Bijia Point, June 22, 1945, McElroy and Markley, 3 specimens, 34 to 

 36 mm. 



Description. — Dorsal rays VII, 1,18 in two, VII,I,19 in one; anal 

 11,1,16 in three; pectoral I,i,16 in six; scales forming, not countable; 

 gill rakers 5 + 1 + 10 in one. Depth 1.9 to 2.0; head 2.5 to 2.6; both 



