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55. STELLIFERUS NASO. 
Stelliferus naso Jordan, MSS. 
Habitat.—Coast of Brazil. 
This species is represented in the museum at Cambridge by many 
young specimens from Cachiura, the longest about 4 inches in length. 
The label of the bottle, in Dr. Steindachner’s handwriting, indicates 
that he has regarded it as a species distinct from 8. microps, although 
he has published no description of the species. 
56. STELLIFERUS MICROPS. 
Corvina stellifera Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 299, 1850 (West Indies). (Not 
Bodianus stellifer Bloch.) 
Corvina microps Steindachner, Ichthyol. Not., i, 6, plate ii, fig. 1, 1864 (Guiana). 
Habitat.—Coast of Brazil and Guiana. 
The specimens of this species (4581, M. C. Z.) examined by us, were 
collected at Paraby Dr.Steindachner. The largest is 34 inchesin length. 
Genus XII.—SCILAINA. 
Scicena part Artedi, Genera Piscium, 1738. (Includes wmbra and cirrosa.) 
Scizena Linnzeus, Systema Nature, ed. x, 289, 1758 (uméra; cirrosa). 
Johnius Bloch, Ichthyologia, x, 107, 1793 (carutta, &c., later restricted by Gill to 
Johnius carutta). , 
Scizena Cuvier, Régne Animal, ed. i, 297, 1817 (restricted to Sciena wmbra, a Linnean 
species, and to Sciena aquila, a non-Linnzxan one) (not of Régne Animal, ed. 
ii, which is Pseudosciana). 
Bola Francis Hamilton, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822 (coitor chaptis, &c.). 
Scizena Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. ii, 1829 (‘‘wmbra” = aquila; and of all subsequent 
authors except Bleeker; not of Linnzus, nor of Artedi, to both of whom 
Sciena aquila was unknown ; not of the first edition of the Régne Animal). 
Corvina Cuvier, Régne Animal, ed. ii, 1829 (nigra = wmbra). 
Cheilotrema Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Fische, 1845, 13 ( fusciatum). 
Rhinoscion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 85 (saturnus). 
Pseudoscizna Bleeker, Nederland. Tydsskr. f. Dierkunde, i, 1863 (aquila). 
Scizenops Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 30 (ocellata). 
Ophioscion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 164 (typicus). 
Callaus Jordan, subgenus novum (de/ic’osus). 
TYPE: Scicena umbra Linneus. 
We are compelled to place in a single genus the great bulk of those 
Scicenide which have short gill-rakers, inferior mouth, and no barbels 
on the lower jaw. In spite of the marked differences between the ex- 
tremes of the series, the intergradation in characters is so perfect that 
we are unable to draw any sharp distinctive lines among them. This 
is especially true when the Asiatic species, forming the groups called 
Bola and Johnius, are taken into account. It is also true that one of 
the species of Buirdiella (chrysoleuca) is very close to some of the mem- 
bers of the present group. In this case, however, there is really one 
