300 = Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
D. 5-10. P.(?). V.(?). A. 9. C.(?). Length, 20 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Le Guachancho, Sphyrena guachancho, Cuv. et VaL., m. p. 342. 
4. Sphyrena 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, Srorer. New York, Dexay. 
Sphyrena borealis, Northern Barracuda, Dekay’s Report, p. 39, pl. 60, fig. 196. 
Re fo Srorer, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., p. 148, 
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. Polynemus 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, Brocu, 402. 
Paradise Polyneme, SHAw’s Gen. Zodl., v. p. 147, pl. 118. 
Le Polynéme d’Amérique, Polynemus Americanus, Cuv. et VAL., 111. p. 393. 
GENUS XXV. UPENEUS, Cov. 
Branchie with four rays ; teeth on both jaws, but frequently none on the 
palate ; opercle with a small spine ; a swimming bladder. 
1. Upeneus maculatus, Biocu. 
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, Br., pl. 348, fig. 1? 
ae ee Bu. ; Spotted Surmullet, Saaw’s Gen. Zodl., 1v. p. 617. 
L’Upénéus métara, Upeneus maculatus, Cuy. et Vau., 11. p. 478. 
