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agassizi with the Corvina minor of Tschudi. The name minor was given 
to indicate the small size of the species as compared with Corvina deli- 
ciosa. The name seems a little unfortunate, as this species reaches a 
larger size than any other in the genus Stelliferus. It bears a consider- 
able resemblance to the species of Bairdiella, but its nearest affinities 
are with Stelliferus stellifer. 
52. STELLIFERUS STELLIFER. 
Bodianus stellifer Bloch, Ichthyologia, plate 231, 1790 (‘‘ Cape of Good Hope”). Bloch 
& Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 331, 1801 (copied). « : 
Scieena (Sielliferus) stellifera Jordan, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1886, 540 (notes on type 
of trispinosa). 
Corvina trispinosa, Cuy. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 109 (Brazil; Cayenne). Stein- 
dachner, Sciznoiden Brasiliens, 14, 1863 (Para). 
Habitat.—Coasts of Guiana and Brazil. Our description of this spe- 
cies is taken from specimens in the museum at Cambridge, from Bahia, 
We have also examined the original type of Corvina trispinosa in the 
museum at Paris. It is doubtless true th at Bloch’s type of Bodianus 
stellifer came from Surinam rather than from Africa. His figure rep- 
resents some species of Stelliferus, and Cuvier and Giinther are probably 
right in identifying this figure with Corvina trispinosa. Still this iden- 
tification is not free from doubt, and it may be better to call the species 
Stelliferus trispinosus. i 
53. STELLIFERUS LANCEHOLATUS. 
Homoprion lanceolatus Holbrook, Ichthyol. 8. Carolina, ed. 1, 168, plate 23, 1856 
(Port Royal Sound). Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, 11, 1859 (Saint 
Joseph’s Island, Texas). 
Sciona lanceolata Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 289, 1860 (copied). Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1882, 605 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 
Fish. North Am., 931, 1883. 
Stelliferus lanceolatus Goode, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 113 (Saint John’s River, 
Florida). Bean, Internat. Fishery Exhib. Berlin, 55, 1883 (Matanzas River 
Inlet, Florida). 
Sciena stellifera Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North America, 569, 1883 (Pensacola). 
Habitat.—South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, 
Charleston to Texas. 
This small fish is rather rare on our coast, the specimens seen by us 
being few and all from rather deep water ; the one here described was 
obtained at Charleston by Dr. Gilbert. 
54. STELLIFERUS ERICYMBA. 
Sciena ericymba Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. 8. Fish. Com., 1881, 311 (Bay of Pan- 
ama). 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of tropical America; Panama. 
This small species is rather common about Panama. The cavernous 
character of the head is more marked in this species than in any other. 
