48 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Table of Measurements. 



Washington, March 22, 1879. 



OKSCRBPTIOiV OF A NE^V ^i^PECIEJSt OB? AMBER EI!!»II (SERIOLA 

 !*TEARM«ai) OBTAIIVED NEAR PENSAl'Ol^A. FLORIDA, BY MR. 



SIl,AS STEARXS. 



By €i. MUOWN OOODE asi«l TARI^ETOI^ H. BEAN. 



The National Museum lias recently received, from Mr. Silas Stearu.s, 

 of Pensacola, .several species of fishes hitherto unrecorded from the Gulf 

 of Mexico. Among them we recognize Seriola honariensis, Cuv. & VaL, 

 l)reviously observed only on the coast of Brazil, which is represented 

 by an individual of 890 millimetres, catalogue-number 22258 5 also a 

 second species of the same genus, which, though closely related to two 

 Cuban species, has characters which distinguish it from them, or, at 

 least, which do not harmonize with the published descriptions. This 

 form may in the future prove to be identical with Seriola gigas or Seriola 

 iluhia ; it appears to be as distinct from either of these species as they 

 from each other. It is therefore fully described as a new species under 

 the name Seriola Stcarnsii. We prefer thus to place the Peusacola speci- 

 men on record as a provisional new species rather than to identify it 

 on insufficient grounds with an already-named species, of which the pub- 

 lished descriptions are incomplete. A study of a large series of speci- 

 mens will doubtless largely reduce the number of species in this genus. 



