67 FISHES OF SINALOA. 439 
they are marked by shades of brownish red or maroon 
color. ‘There seems to be little doubt that the Zrachyno- 
tus rhodopus Gill is the young of the species which he 
called at the same time 7rachynotus fasciatus. The very 
young specimens to which Gill gave the name Zvachy- 
notus nasutus were probably also the young of the same 
species, but it may be that they were the young of 7rachr- 
notus kennedyt. Wr. Jordan’s identification of the great 
Pampano of the Florida Keys with Gill’s Zrachynotus 
rhodopus is doubtless incorrect. There is at present no 
evidence that any species of Zvrachinotus is common to 
both coasts of Mexico. 
Young specimens, 2% inches long. Blue above, white 
below, no bars. - Dorsal and caudal lobes black, with 
strong orange shade. Lobes of caudal orange brown, 
verging on black. Pectoral and ventral white. 
Specimens 6 or 7 inches long, have from‘ 3 to 5 narrow 
dark cross-bars, not quite so wide as pupil, running from 
a point on a level with pectoral fin to within a short dis- 
tance of the dorsal line of the back, but never quite to 
it; these bars vary in number and position; posterior 
face of pectoral fin dusky. Otherwise colored as the 
younger ones. 
g7. Trachinotus culveri Jordan & Starks n. sp. Pato- 
META. Plate xxxvi. 
Five specimens, each 7 inches long, obtained in the 
market at Mazatlan; no others seen. This species is re- 
lated to Zrachinotus faicatus of the Atlantic, but its fins 
are lower and different in coloration. It is also allied to 
Trachinotus kennedyz, but the body is much deeper and 
there is no black axillary spot. It does not seem possible 
that with age cu/vert should become transformed into 
kennedayt. 
Iiead 322; ‘depth 24, Vier, 17; A. Ik-1, 17% max- 
