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t 
dorsal rays shorter than the middle and posterior ones; the eleventh 
longer than the fourth by an eye’s diameter, little more than half the t 
length of the Head ; soft dorsal very broadly rounded posteriorly ; cau- 
dal short, broad, rounded behind; anal inserted posteriorly, the tips of 
the anal extending nearly as far as the tips of the dorsal; second anal 
spine moderate, scarcely more than two-thirds the length of the rays, 
little less than 3 in head; ventrals lanceoiate, slightly longer than the 
rounded pectorals, 14 in head. 
Color (in spirits), light brownish above, silvery on sides and below; 
the centers of the scales with many dark dots, these forming horizontal 
lines along the series of scales below the lateral line and oblique, 
irregular, often interrupted, lines above the lateral line; all the fins 
with dark dots; spinous dorsal dusky; soft dorsal browuish for two- 
fifths of its height; the other three-fifths pale; anal and tips of ventrals 
dusky; pectoral pale; head with many minute rusty dots; these ag- 
gregated, and forming brownish spots on the maxillary and lower part 
of the head. 
35. CORVULA SUBZQUALIS. 
Corvina subequalis Poey, Ann, Lyc. Nat. Hist., New York, 1875, 58 (Cuba). Poey, 
Enumeratio, 48, 1875 (Cuba). 
Habitat.—W est Indian fauna. 
We refer two specimens from Saint Thomas to this species, although 
they differ in some respects from Poey’s description of Corvina sub- 
equalis. The specimens are in the museum at Cambridge, and are in 
rather poor condition. The more elongate body and the smaller num- 
ber of dorsal rays distinguish subequalis readily from sialis. 
36. CORVULA BATABANA. 
Johnius batabanus Poey, Memorias, ii, 184, 1860 (Batabano, Cuba); Synopsis, 324, 
1868 (Cuba); Enumeratio, 49, 1875 (Cuba) ; Fauna Puerto-Riquefia, 327, 1881 
(Porto Rico). 
Larimus batabanus Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 43 (Havana). 
Habitat.—West Indian fauna. 
This rare species is known to us from a single specimen, obtained by 
Dr. Jordan in Havana, and from several specimens sent by Professor 
Poey to the museum at Cambridge. Its strongly marked coloration is 
a very unusual trait in this family. It diverges in several ways from 
the other species referred by us to Corvula, but we think that all should 
be placed in one genus. 
Genus IX.—PLAGIOSCION, 
Plagioscion Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 82 (a generic description only 
no species or type being indicated). 
Diplolepis Steindachner, Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Sciwnoiden Brasiliens, 1863, 
2 (squamosissimus ; name preoccupied in Hymenoptera). 
Plagioscion Jordan & EKigenmann (squamosissima). 
TYPE: Sciena squamossissima Heckel. 
