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more elongate than in other species; profile low, little con- 
vex; eye small, 24in snout,7in head; snout long, 3 in head ; 
mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching front of eye, 
3 in head; second dorsal spine 13 in head; anterior soft 
. rays of dorsal almost twice as long as the posterior ones, 
caudal with an f-shaped margin; ventrals 1? in pectorals; 
pectorals 1? in head. Color bluish on sidesand back, silvery 
below, without stripes or bands. Head 34 in length; depth 
4%. D. X-I,22t0 24; A. 1,7; scales 5-53-13. .ELONGATUSs, 103. 
kk. Upper lobe of caudal not longer than lower; scales rather 
large, 15 to 18 in an oblique series from vent upward and 
forward to lateral line; axillary scale not one-fourth length 
of pectoral; snout distinctly projecting beyond mouth, 3} in 
head; gill-rakers larger than in other species, the longest 
about 4 length of pupil, the number X + 7; lower pharyngeal 
bones broad, most of the teeth developed as coarse molars, 
only those along the posterior margin conical; maxillary 
reaching past front of orbit, 34in head; outer teeth of upper 
jaw scarcely enlarge]; longest dorsal spines reaching past 
front of soft dorsal, the free margin of the fin concave; cau- 
dal rather deeply lunate, the lower lobe rounded, the upper 
pointed; ventrals 1? in pectorals, which are 1} in head. 
Color silvery gray above, with biuish and bronze reflections, 
immaculate; a dark-bronze shade along sides on level of 
pectorals, extending to tail and along cheeks; belly below 
this abruptly white; dorsals light brown, spinous dorsal 
black at lip, the base narrowly white; caudal pale, its tip 
usually black ; inner lining of pectoral and ventrals blackish; 
gill cavity pale. Head 3} in length; depth 42. D. X-I, 23 
to 25; A. I, 7; scales 6-53 (pores)-12 ...... LITTORALIS, 104. 
94. MENTICIRRHUS OPHICEPHALUS. 
Umbrina ophicephalus Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fish, 45, 1842 (Coquimbo, Chili). Giin- 
ther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 277, 1860 (copied). 
Cirrimens ophicephalus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 17, 1862. 
Habitat —Coast of Chili and Peru. 
This singular species is represented by numerous specimens large and 
> small in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. These are from Caldera, 
Chili (8603, M. C. Z.), and from Callao, Peru. It seems to us that the 
name Cirrimens proposed for this species can be used for a subgenus 
only. 
95. MENTICIRRHUS SIMUS. 
Menticirrhus nasus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Fish Com., 1882,107 and 111 (Ma- 
zatlan and Panama) (not Umbrina nasus Giinther). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North 
America, 94, 1885 (name only). 
Menticirrhus simus Jordan & Eigenmann, sp. nov. 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of tropical America; Mazatlan to Panama. 
This species is known to us from the specimens collected by Dr. ©. H. 
Gilbert at Mazatlan and Panama. 
It was at first identified somewhat doubtfully with Menticirrhus nasus 
by Jordan and Gilbert. The examination of the original type of Um- . 
