106 BULLETIN 95^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Umbrina analis Guntheb, Fishes Central America, 1869, pp. 387, 426; 

 Panama. 



One specimen, field No. 1010, 28 cm. long, from Tiimbes. 



Head 3.65 in length ; depth 3.45 ; eye 5.15 in head ; snout 3 ; maxil- 

 lary 3 ; interorbital 3.82 ; D. X-I, 30 ; A. II, 7 ; scales 8-54-13. 



Body elongate, compressed, dorsal outline strongly and evenly 

 arched ; head conical ; snout pointed ; mouth horizontal, small, maxil- 

 lary reaching to below center of eye; border of preopercle sharply 

 and evenly serrate; third dorsal spine longest, 1.71 in head; second 

 anal spine long and well developed, 2.6 ; pectoral rather small, equal 

 in length to ventrals, the tips of the latter reaching halfway from 

 their base to second anal spine ; scales ctenoid, in very oblique rows ; 

 membranes of soft dorsal and caudal scaled two-thirds distance to 

 tips; anal with a scaly sheath at base; a considerable area at base of 

 pectoral scaled. "Vocal powers well developed." (Coker.) 



Color in life, with man}^ oblique and somewhat irregular stripes of 

 dark brown. 



Color in spirits, silvery; olive black stripes extending from head 

 and pectoral region upward and backward along the rows of scales 

 to the base of the dorsal, these somewhat wavy, becoming horizontal 

 on caudal peduncle ; fins yellowish. 



Genus MENTICIRRHUS Gill. 



< KEY TO SPECIES. 



a\ Eye 7 in head ; scales 9-50 to 52-17 or 18 ; D. X, I, 20 or 21. 



panamensis, p. 106. 

 a^ Eye 6 in head; scales 12-70-20; D. XI, I, 23 or 24 cokeri, p. 107. 



135. MENTICIRRHUS PANAMENSIS (Steindachner). 

 MUCHACHITA. 



Umbrina panamensis Steindachner, Ichth. Beit., vol. 4. 1875. p. 9; Panama. 

 Menticirrhns panamensis Jokdan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. 



Amer., vol. 2, 1898, p. 1473. — Gilbert and Starks, Fishes of Panama 



Bay, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 134. 



One example, field No. 1038, 26.4 cm, long, from Capon. 



Head 2.82 in length; depth 4.07; eye 7.09 in head; snout 3.71; 

 maxillary 3; interorbital 4.33; pectoral 1.3; ventral 2.22; D. X, I, 

 21; A. I, 9; scales 9-52 (+2) -17. 



Body elongate, rounded, back Wrongly arched, its gi'eatest depth 

 at origin of dorsal; ventral outline nearly straight; head long, de- 

 pressed, the interorbital broad and flat; snout blunt, strongly pro- 

 jecting beyond premaxillaries, maxillary extending to below poste- 

 rior border of pupil; nostrils close together, the anterior provided 

 with a small dermal flap; preorbital broad, equal to horizontal 



