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Family SPARID/. 
149. Calamus brachysomus (Lockington). MojArra 
GARABATA. 
This species is very common about Mazatlan, being a 
food fish of some importance and reaching a length of 
about fifteen inches. It was also obtained by Dr. Gilbert. 
Its range southward is not certain, but it is generally com- 
mon in the Gulf of California. 
Family KYPHOSID/E. 
150. Kyphosus analogus (Gill). SALEMA. 
This beautiful species is rather common about Mazat- 
lan, both in the estuary and in deep water in the neigh- 
borhood of the islands. It was not found by Dr. Gilbert, 
and its range along the coast is not definitely distinguished 
from that of the following species, the two having been 
recorded as identical by authors who had seen but one. 
They were first properly distinguished by Jenkins and 
Evermann, who obtained both at Guaymas. The marked 
difference in color, however, does not appear in the de- 
scription of Jenkins and Evermann, which was drawn 
from specimens preserved in alcohol. 
Head, 4; depth.24; dorsal XI, 14; canal Tl a 2sere 
4% in head; snout 3; maxillary 3%; pectoral 134, equal 
to ventrals; longest ray of soft dorsal 3%; longest dorsal 
spine 2%; upper lobe of caudal as long as head. 
Body compressed, elliptical; profile in some specimens 
evenly curved from tip of snout to dorsal, in others slightly 
produced before eyes and concave over snout. 
Mouth small, horizontal; jaws equal; teeth in a single 
series, from 22 to 28 in each jaw; maxillary extending to 
the vertical from the front of eye. Snout, lower jaw and 
preorbital naked, head elsewhere with scales; 12 to I5 
rows of scales on opercle; scales on body much crowded 
