932 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NOETH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



Page 572. Instead of "«;," etc., read: 



2»2 ((•)•— COESVIl^A* Cnvier. 



The species of ^^ Sckcna^'' which have the preopercle without bouy 

 serratures may be referred to Corvina. Genus 296 (b), Boncador shoukl 

 l>robabIy be retained also. 



Page 573. After Corvina acuminata add: 



293 (2).— EQUES Blocli. 

 (Blocli Iclitliyologia, about 1790: type Equcs americaiiits Bloch.) 



Body oblong, couii)ressed, the back much elevated anteriorly. Mouth 

 rather small, the lower jaw included; teeth in villiform bands, the outer 

 somewhat enlarged above ; preopercle serrate, the teeth flexible; pseu- 

 dobranchi» present. Scales moderate, extending on the soft fins. 

 First dorsal of about 16 spines, the median sj)ines much elevated ; 

 second dorsal extremely long. Anal very small; second anal spine 

 small. Pyloric coeca few. Air bladder siraiile. YertebraB 10+15. 

 {Latin, Equ us, a horse; the long dorsal spines being compared to a 

 rider.) 

 901 (h). E. lanceolatus (Gmel.) Casteln. 



Greyish-yellow, with three broad blackish-brown bands, edged with 

 whitish ; the first vertical, from the crown, through the eye to the angle 

 of the mouth ; the second slightly arched, from the nape over the oper- 

 cle to the base of the ventral; the third curved, from the top of the 

 first dorsf^l along the middle of the side of the body to the middle of 

 the caudal fin. Head small; maxillarj' 3 in head, reaching pupil. 

 Height of first dorsal usually much more than depth of body below 

 it. Head 3|; depth 3^. D. XVI-I, 53; A. II, 10; Lat. 1. 60. West 

 Indies ; lately taken at Pensacola by Silas Stearns. 



(Chwiodon laitceolatus Gmeliii, Syst. Nat. 178S, 1254: Eques halteaius C. & V. v, 165; 

 GiiutLer, ii, 279: Eques amerieanus Bloch. Ichtb. taf. 347, fig. 1.) 



Page 575. The synonym " Homoprion xanthurus Holbr." belongs to 

 Seiwna argyroleuca, not to Liostomtis xanthurus. 



Page 575. Genyonenius. Several of the characters given in the text 

 are inapplicable to South A merican species now referred to Genyonemus. 



* Cnvier, Regne Animal, ed.2, ii, 17.3, 1829: type Scirvna nigra Blocb = »S'cm;)?a nmhra 

 L. iu part, tbe species baviug been coufonnded by L. with Sdmna umbra {=aquila 

 Lac). The enlargement of the second anal spine, used by Cuvier to distinguish Cor- 

 vina from Sciaina, has no taxonomic value. {Corrina, the Italian and Spanish name for 

 various Scisenoids, originally from Latin Corvus, crow, in allusion to the dn sky color of 

 C. uigra.) 



