560 COXTRIBUTIONS TO NOETH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



depth 2. D. XIT, 14; A. Ill, 13; scales 6-63-14. L. 5 inclies. Nortli 



Carolina to Cuba; abimdant at Beaufort, N. C. 



{Sargus caudlmacula Poey, Memorias, ii, 198, 18^8 : Sargus holbrooki Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 379 ; not of Beau.) 



2§§.— OIKEI.L.A Gray. 

 (Camarina Ayres.) 



(Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zoiil. 1838: tjpe Girella punctata Gray .) 



Body oblong-ovate, compressed, covered with rather large scales. 

 Mouth small, with a series of flat, tricuspid, movable incisors, behind 

 which is a broad band of similar smaller ones; no molar teeth; no 

 teeth on vomer or tongue. Cheeks with very small scales; opercles 

 and top of head chiefly naked. Dorsal tin rather low, with about 14 

 spines, on the bases of which the scales extend, forming an imperfect 

 sheath; no groove at base of dorsal; no procumbent dorsal spine; anal 

 spines small, graduated; caudal lunate. Air-bladder divided into two 

 posterior horns. Pyloric cceca numerous ; intestinal canal elongate ; 

 peritoneum black. Herbivorous. Pacific Ocean. (A latinization of the 

 French '•'■Girelle'''' =Julis.) 



8§6. C JBiy:rieaBis (Ayres) GiW.— Blue-fish. 



Dusky green, paler below; young with a large yellowish spot on 



each side of the dorsal fin. Body oval, compressed, with very deep 



caudal peduncle; snout thick, its profile evenly rounded; mouth 



small, subinferior, low, nearly horizontal; maxillary reaching nearly to 



front of orbit ; a minute patch of palatine teeth ; preopercle minutely 



serrulate at its angle ; preorbital as broad as eye. Gill-rakers numerous, 



rather long. Scales firm, weakly ctenoid, those on thorax and front of 



back smaller. Dorsal spines lower than the soft rays; anal higher than 



soft dorsal, similar to it; caudal emarginate; pectorals short and broad, 



not reaching vent; ventrals short. Head 4; depth 2^. D. XIV, 14; A. 



111,12; Lat. 1. 50. L. 12 inches. Coast of California, from Monterey 



southward, abundant in rocky xdaces, feeding on sea-weed. 



(Camarhia nigricans Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1860, 81: Girella dorsomacula 

 Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1882, 244.) 



2§!).— PIMELEPTERUS Lac(?pede. 

 (Lac^pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 429, 1S02: type Pimelepterus hosci, Lac^p^de.) 



Body regularly ovate, moderately compressed; head short, with 

 bkint snout; eye large; moutb small, horizontal; maxillary barely 

 reaching front of eye; both jaws with a single series of rather narrow 



