[93] REVIEW OF THE SCLENIDA, 435 
Lonchurus depressus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 102, 1801 (Surinam). Cuv, & 
Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 195, 1830 (copied). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 
ii, 317, 1860 (West Indies). 
Habitat.—Coast of Guiana. 
This remarkable species we have had no opportunity to examine. 
We follow the suggestion of Dr. Giinther, in regarding the nominal 
species, Lonchurus depressus, as a synonym of L. lanceolatus. 
Genus XXIV.—POGONIAS. 
Pogonias Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 138, 1802 (fasciatus = cromis). 
Pogonathus Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 121, 1803 (courbina=cromis). 
TYPE: Pogonias fasciatus Lacépéde. 
This genus contains, so far as known, but a single species, a large 
coarse fish of our Atlantic coasts. ' 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF PUOGONIAS. 
a. Body oblong, the back much elevated, ventral outline almost straight, the depth 
rapidly diminishing from the first dorsal spine backwards; depth 24 to 3 
in length ; head 34; profile rather steep and slightly convex ; mouth mod- 
erate, inferior, the maxillary not reaching middle of eye, 34 in head; teeth 
in broad bands, the outer series above scarcely enlarged ; snout blunt,] onger 
than eye, 34 to 4 in head; lower pharyngeals large, completely united, coy- | 
ered with many blunt molars and a small patch of conical teeth at the outer 
posterior corner; gill-rakers 4-++12, very short, slender; dorsal spines high 
but slender, the 4th highest, 2 in head; caudal subtruncate; second anal 
spine very large, about 2 in head; pectorals about as long as head; scales 
large, those on breast small; color grayish silvery, with 4 or 5 broad dark 
vertical bars, these disappearing with age; fins blackish. D.X-~I, 19 to 21; 
Reet: Gis Mees OA a HOlO0 0) 22 soe ach eke e feces ania cocina ™ Cromts, 107. 
x. Body deep, the depth about 24 in length; snout blunt, 32 in head. D. X-I, 
21; scales47; back usually without distinct oblique streaks - Var. cromis, 107 (a). 
ax. Body more elongate, the depth about 3 in length; snout more acute, 3? in 
head. D. X-I, 19; scales 50; color more silvery, with oblique faint dark 
streaks along the rows of scales above....- Seeeeonaa Var. courbina, 107 (b). 
107. POGONIAS CROMIS. 
(THE DRUM.) 
[Plates X and XI.] 
a. Var. cromis. 
Labrus cromis Linnezus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 479, 1766 (Carolina). Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 
1292, 1788 (Carolina). 
Pogonias cromis Goode & Bean, Fishes of Essex County and Massachusetts Bay, 17, 
1879 (Provincetown). Goode & Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 131 (Pensa- 
cola). Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 93 (St. John’s River, Florida; near 
Charleston, 8. C.). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North America, 93, 1885 (name only). 
Labrus chromis Schopf, Schrift. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, viii, 158, 1788 (New York). 
Sciena chromis Bloch & Schneider, Syst, Ichth., 82, 1801 (Carolina). Lacépéde, Hist. 
Nat. Poiss., iy, 314, 1802, 
