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nion serra from Palermo; Jordan & Hoffman from Athens (Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Scj. Philadelphia, 1892, p. 258); and Faber from the coast of 

 Dalmatia. It has not been taken in France nor in the eastern At- 

 lantic, except in the Canaries and in Senegambia. This, or some 

 closely related form, is found in Australia. Our single specimen from 

 Port Said has but twenty-three soft rays in the dorsal and twenty-five 

 in the anal. American specimens of Pomatomus saltatrix Linnaeus 

 have twenty-five or twenty-six in the dorsal and twenty-six to twenty- 

 eight in the anal. If this difference persists, the Mediterranean form 

 may stand as Pomatomus lophar (Forskal). Seven specimens from Au- 

 stralia, which have been examined, agree with the specimens from 

 Port Said in the scarcity of their fin-rays. 



Family STROM ATEID.F:. 

 Genus Stromateus Linnaeus. 



12. Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus. 



No. 8012a, C. M. One specimen taken. 



Family SERRANID^. 

 Genus Labrax Klein (1775). 



13. Labrax labrax Linnaeus. 

 Seen, but not taken. 



Genus Parepinephelus Bleeker. 



14. Parepinephelus ruber (Bloch). 



Seen, but not taken. This genus is distinguished from Myctero- 

 perca by the slender and numerous gill-rakers. 



Family SPARID.E:. 

 Genus Pagrus Cuvier. 



15. Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus). 



No. 8013c, C, M. One specimen collected. 



Family HAMULI D^. 



Genus Dacymba^ Jordan & Hubbs, gen. nov. 



Allied to Orthopristis, but with the mucous structure of the lower 

 part of the head highly developed, much as in Stellifer and Ericymba. 

 1 3d, an intensive particle; KVfifiv, V = a cavity, equivalent to Ericymba. 



