ADDENDA 81. CENTRARCHIDJi: — CH^NOBRYTTUS. 915 



under middle of body. "Male witli the front elevated, forming a crest, 

 ■which projects a little beyond the upper jaw; female with blue spots 

 along- each side of the tail, regularly arranged." {Poey.) Head 5 ; depth 

 5. D. 58-G4 ; A. 2G-30. Length G feet. In all Avarm seas ; common in 

 the Gulf of Mexico. 



(L. Syst. Nat.; Giinther, ii, 405; Pocy, Syn. Pise. Cub. 356: CorypJiama guttata 

 Poey, Mem, Cuba, ii, 245; Liltkeu, 1. c. 4d:3: Coryphccna sueuri C. & V. ix, 302.) 



Page 455. After PteracUs caroUnus add: 



236 (?').— BRAMA Blocli & Schneider. 

 (Blocli & Sclineiiler, Systema Ichtliyol. 1801, 99: type Spams raji Blocli.) 



Body compressed, more or less elevated, covered with rather small 

 scales. Mouth very oblique, the lower jaw projecting; both jaws with 

 an outer series of strong teeth ; teeth on vomer and palatines decidu- 

 ous. Dorsal and anal fins elongate, the former with 3 or 4, the latter 

 with 2 or 3 spines; caudal deeply forked; ventrals thoracic, I, 5. Oper- 

 cles. entire; branchiostegals 7. No air bladder. Pelagic. (Latin ftrama, 

 bream; the species having been called ^'•Brama marina''^ by Eay.) 



■717 {h). B. raji (Bloch) Schn. 



Coloration uniform. Eye at the middle of the head; pectorals reach- 

 ing middle of anal. Greatest depth below middle of body, 3 in total 

 length. D. III-31 ; A. 11-27 ; scales 13-90-23. Pyloric coeca 5. Ver- 

 tebrte IG + 23. Atlantic coasts of Europe and Africa, straying to 

 Grand Banks of Newfoundland [Bean), coast of Washington Territory 

 {Bean}, and Chili. 



(Sjianis raji Bloch, Iclitli. taf. 273; Giintlier, ii, 408.) 



Page 459. For Holocentrus read Ilolocentrum. The former is the orig- 

 inal orthography, but it is not worth while to try to restore it. 



• 

 Page 461. Under Elassomatidcey the statements " no teeth on vomer" 



and "i)seudobranchiae none" are not quite correct. A specimen of JElas- 



Homa zonatum from Tombigbee River, 1^ inches long, thus much larger 



than the original types, shows the following characters: 



A few weak teeth on vomer ; front teeth of both jaws canine-like, 



directed forward; pseudobranchiae somewhat glandular, covered by 



skin. Scales cycloid ; no lateral line. Dorsal apparently emarginate. 



1). y, 9; A. Ill, 5; Lat. 1. 38. Head speckled with black; fins with 



dark spots. 



