ADDENDA — 96. SERRANID.E — TRISOTROPIS. 971 



dorsals about equal, their longest rays half head, about equal to the in. 

 terspacc between them. Anal short and high, half higher than long, 

 its base not quite half head, its spine weak; pectorals and ventrals 

 reaching a point midway between base of pectorals and anal. Head 4; 

 depth 7. D. XI-10 ; A. I, 9 ; scales G-05-10. L. 1§ inches. Pearl River, 

 Mississippi. {Hay.) 



(Hay, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18S2.) 



Page 490. After loa vitrea add : 

 ■yei (h). I. vagiHs Hay. 



Pellucid, with about 10 quadrate dark blotches along the back and 

 as many along lateral line, the last 4 or 5 of these largest; a small dis- 

 tinct black spot at base of caudal; head dusky above, its sides plain. 

 Bodj" slender, the caudal jjeduncle deep and compressed, twice as long 

 as deep. Head long, i)ointed; mouth large, the jaws equal, the maxil- 

 laries reaching front of pupil ; teeth recurved ; opercular spine well de- 

 veloped. Head naked; eye large, 3 in head, longer than snout. Por- 

 sal fins similar, longer than higli; anal longer than high, somewhat 

 smaller than second dorsal, its spines slender, half as long as soft rays. 

 Posterior portion of body densely scaled; anterior [)ortion jippareiitly 

 with a few scales above lateral line, none below; lateral line not de- 

 veloped on the last 5 or 6 scales. Head 3^; depth 0. D. X — 12; A. II, 

 10; Lat. 1. about GO, L. 1^ inches. Pearl Eiver, Mississippi. {Hay.) 



(Hay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 188-2.) 



Page 494. Vaillantia cMorosoma is identical with V. camura. 



Page 544. Instead of Priacanthus macrophthalmus read: 

 §58. P. arcBialus C. & V. 



(Cnv. &. Val. iii, 101, 1829. The original Anthias macrophthalmuH IJlocli. is a different 

 speciea.) 



Page 549. Lutjanus hJacltfordi^ the Red Snapper, seems to be identi- 

 cal with L. campeohianus. It ranges southward to Aspinwall. 



Pages 534, 553. The Perca formosa of Linn, is the t^crranuft fascieu- 

 laris of C. & V., and not the Diabasis formosus of the text. The former 

 should, therefore, stand as Serranus formosus (L.) J. & G. and the latter 

 as JJiabasis plumieri* (Lac.) J. & G. 



Page 538 (918). The description of Trisotropis hrunneus, on page 538, 

 should be canceled, the species not being known from our coast. To 

 * Labrus plumieri Lac^pMe, Hist. Nat. Poies. iii, 480, 1802. 



