208 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. [18S5. 



Stelliferus lanceolatus, Holbrook. 



A specimen apparently of this species, labeled "Ko. 13" by Garden 

 (not ISTo. 13 of " Correspondence," p. 313), is in the collection, but was 

 never described by Linne. 



Archosargus probatocephalus, (Walb.) Gill. 



A small specimen labeled as below by Garden is the species now 

 called A. iwol)atocephalns : 



No. 15. 



Spaeus species. 



Nostralihus 



Sheepshead. 



It does not appear to have been named by Linn6, owing, perhai)S, to 

 mutilation. The persistence of the common name is worthy of note. 



Micropterus salmoides, Lac. 



Linne had two examples of the large-mouth black bass from Garden 

 (IS'os. 8 and 40 Garden), but he does not seem to have described the spe- 

 cies. 



For Ko. 8, see Correspondence with Linne, 311; for 40, see p. 306. 



No. 40 is labeled thus by Garden : 



No. 40. 



Labrus. 



Nostralib. 



Fresh-water Trout. 



Clupea vernalis, Mitcliill. 



A species labeled by Garden "No. 4 Clupea" is in the collection, 

 allusion is made to it by Linne or in Garden's Correspondence. 



No 



NOTE ON EPINEPHELUS NIGRITUS. 

 By DAVID S. JOUDAN. 



In the fish market at Indianapolis, 1 examined, recently, a large black 

 "jew-fish" {Epinephelvs mgritns, Holbrook) from near Pensacola. 



The following are some of the characters shown by this specimen: 



Length 5 feet. Anal rays III, 9. 



Second dorsal spine longest, its length 2^ times in head, and half longer 

 than the third spine. Interorbital width 4^ in head ; maxillary about 2 

 in head. Eye small. Preopercle without salient angle or enlarged teeth. 

 Top of head not broad, nor especially depressed. Caudal fin very 

 slightly lunate, the angles rounded. Scales of lateral line of the ordi- 



