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96. MENTICIRRHUS NASUS. 
Umbrina nasus Giinther, Fishes Central America, 387 and 426, 1869 (Panama). Jor- 
dan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, 289 (Central America). 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama. 
This species is known to us from Dr. Giinther’s original type. No 
others have since been taken, if, as we suppose, our Menticirrhus simus 
is really a distinct species. 
97. MENTICIRRHUS AGASSIZI. 
Menticirrhus agassizi Jordan, sp. nov. (Caldera). 
Habitat.—Coast of Chili. 
This species is known from a single specimen, 63 inches long, in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, from Caldera, Chili. It was found 
mixed with specimens of Menticirrhus ophicephalus, in bottle 8603. 
This species is named in honor of Professor Louis Agassiz. 
98. MENTICIRRHUS PANAMENSIS. 
Umbrina panamensis Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitr., iv, 9, 1875 (Panama). 
Menticirrhus panamensis Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. 8. Fish Com., 1882, 107 (Mazatlan); 
l.c.,111(Panama). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North America, 94, 1885 (name only). 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama. 
This species is known to us from specimens taken by Dr. Gilbert at 
Panama and Mazatlan. 
99. MENTICIRRHUS MARTINICENSIS. 
Umbrina marvinicensis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 186, 1830(Martinique). Storer, 
Syn. Fish. North Am., 323, 1846 (copied).. Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 
277, 1860 (copied). Jordan, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 539 (note on type of 
Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Omtrina gracilis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 189, 1830 (Brazil). Giinther, Cat. 
Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 277, 1860 (copied). Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 
539 (note on type of Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Umbrina arenata Cuv. & Val.,Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 190 (Brazil). Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, 
Fishes, 44, 1842 (Bahia Blanca; Maldonado). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 
Mus., ii, 276, 1860 (Jamaica). 
Umbrina phalena Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, ix, 20, 1869 (Santos, Brazil). 
Umbrina januaria Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitr., v, 122, 1876 (Rio Janeiro). 
Habitat.—W est Indies to Patagonia. 
We have examined the types of Umbrina martinicensis and U. gracilis 
in the museum at Paris. We have also examined numerous specimens 
in the museum at Cambridge, apparently identical with these, from Rio 
Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Victoria, Bahia, and Montevideo. The 
species seems to be as common in South America as its analogue M. 
americanus is in North America. The two are exceedingly alike, and 
martinicensis is probably a geographical variety of the other, distin- 
guished perhaps by a slightly smaller number of rays in the dorsal fin. 
