48 Stover's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



D. 5-10. P. (?)• V. (.'). A. 9. C. (?)• Length, 20 inches. 

 Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Le Guachancho, Sphynena guachancho, Cut. et Val., hi. p. 342. 



4. Sphyrana borealis, Dekay. 



Small, much elongated, subcylindrical. Greenish brown above, silvery beneath. Lat- 

 eral line yellow. Operculum with a single point. 



D. 5-10. P. 14. V. 6. A. 10. C. 20. Length, 9 inches. 

 Massachusetts, Stoker. New York, Dekay. 



Sphyrasna borealis, Northern Barracuda, Dekay's Report, p. 39, pi. 60, fig. 196. 

 '■ " Storer, Bost. Journ. Nat, Hist., p. 143. 



GENUS XXIV. POLYNEMUS, L. 



The head entirely scaled ; the preoperculum toothed ; the scales easily de- 

 ciduous ; the dorsal fins far separated, and, with the anal fin, covered with 

 scales ; before the pectoral fins, there are long filamentous appendages. 



1. Polyneraus Americanus, Cuv. 



Body silvery, greenish or plumbeous above ; pectorals dark brown ; the other fins punc- 

 tured with black. Seven filaments on each side. Tail forked. 



D. 8, 1-12. P. 16. V. 1-5. A. 3-13. C. 17. Length, 20 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called, at Martinique, " Barbu " ; at St. Domingo, " Barbe chau." 



Polynemus paradiseus, Bloch, 402. 



Paradise Polyneme, Shaw's Gen. Zool., v. p. 147, pi. 118. 



Le Polyneme d'Amerique, Polynemus Americanus, Cuv. et Vai.., III. p. 393. 



GENUS XXV. UPENEUS, Cuv. 

 Branchiae with four rays ; teeth on both jaws, but frequently none on the 

 palate ; opercle with a small spine ; a swimming bladder. 



1. Upeneus maculatus, Bloch. 



Of a red color ; sometimes with two or three spots. Opercular spine strong and pointed. 

 Teeth conical, in a single row. From twenty to twenty-five mucous pores upon the lower 

 edge of the suborbitar bone. 



D. 8. P. 17. V. 1-5. A. 7. C. 15. Length, 8 inches. 



Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Mullus maculatus, Bl., pi. 348, fig. 1 ? 



" " Bl. ; Spotted Surmullet, Shaw's Gen. Zool., iv. p. 617. 



L'Upeneus metara, Upeneus maculatus, Cuv. etVAL., III. p. 478. 



