FURTHER STUDIES ON GRAMMICOLEPIS BRACHI- 
GOSCULCS; ~ POE 
By R. W. SHUFELDT, M.D., C.M.Z.S. 
Durinc the spring of 1872, Professor Poey of Havana, Cuba, 
came into possession of a very remarkable form of fish, which 
presumably was taken in Cuban waters. 
Fortunate it was for science that it fell into such excellent 
hands, as that eminent ichthyologist promptly presented us 
(Anal. de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., Tom. 11, 1873) with a very 
excellent account of this more than rare type, the duplicate of 
which, so far as I am aware, has yet to be found by natural- 
ists. 
This account of Professor Poey’s, as will be seen, was pub- 
lished in the Spanish language, and it has given me much 
pleasure to make a translation of it, and present it here as an 
introduction to some subsequent examinations which I had the 
rare opportunity of undertaking upon the skeleton of the speci- 
men in question. The osteology of this fish is very interesting, 
not only from the fact that it is the only specimen in the 
hands of science, but from its extraordinary peculiarities, and 
from the fact that it may some day be found upon our own 
coasts. 
My translation of the original description just referred to 
reads as follows :— 
“GRAMMICOLEPIS BRACHIUSCULUS. 
DYPE OF ANEW FAMILY IN] DHE CLASS: PICES: 
By Don FELIPE POoeEy, 
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY 
oF Exact, PuysicaL, AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF MAprID. 
The length of this extraordinary fish is 470 millimetres. The 
head enters five times into the total length of the body, and two 
