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parallel with the latter, but lose their orderly arrangement in char- 

 acteristic fashion below the second dorsal. 



46. Lutjanus analis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Pernambuco. 



47. Lutjanus synagris (Linnaeus). 

 Coral reef near Maceio. 



The snout is marked by two parallel golden streaks, the lower of 

 which curves around the lower border of the eye and extends back- 

 ward across the opercle. A third streak traverses the middle of the 

 cheek and opercle to just above the base of the pectoral. A fourth 

 runs horizontally backward from the upper edge of the maxillary. 

 The color agrees in other respects with current descriptions. 



48. Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch). 

 Pernambuco ; Maceio. 



49. Haemulon carbonarium Poey. 

 Pernambuco. 



50. Haemulon plumieri (Lacepede). 

 Pernambuco ; coral reef near Maceio. 



51. Bathystoma aurolineatum Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Maceio. 



52. Conodon nobilis (Linnteus). 

 Pernambuco ; Maceio. 



53. Brachydeuterus corvinaeformis (Steindachner). 

 Pernambuco ; Maceio. 



54. Eucinostomus harengulus Goode & Bean. 

 Mouth of the Rio Goyanna ; Maceio. 



55. Gerres rhombeus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Pernambuco ; Maceio. 



56. Gerres lineatus (Humboldt) . 



Gerres brasilianns Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 458. 

 Gerres etnbryx Jordan & St arks, in Jordan and Evermann's Fishes of North 

 and Middle America, p. 1379, 1898. 



Maceio. 



A single specimen, 170 mm. long, sustains the opinion expressed 

 by Jordan and Evermann that the characters supposed to distinguish 

 G. brasilia7tus from G. liizeatiis would not be permanent. This speci- 

 men has the second dorsal spine decidedly longer than the third, and 

 has 1 1 horizontal rows of scales between the vent and the lateral line, 

 as in G. lineatus from the Pacific. No other characters have been 



