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agassizi with, the Corvina minor of Tschudi. The name minor was given 

 to indicate the small size of the species as compared with Corvina deli- 

 ciosa. The name seems a little unfortunate, as this species reaches a 

 larger size than any other in the genus Stelliferus. It bears a consider- 

 able resemblance to the species of JBairdiella, but its nearest affinities 

 are with Stelliferus stellifer. 



52. STELLIFERUS STELLIFER. 



Bodianus stellifer Bloch, Ichtliyologia, plate 231, 1790 (" Cape of Good Hope")- Bloch 



& Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 331, 1801 (copied). 

 Scicena (Stelliferus) stellifera Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 1886, 540 (notes o.n type 



of trispinosd). 



Corvina trlspinosa, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 109 (Brazil; Cayenne). Steiu- 



„__, c,..: ^...n^i^u low m„...n 



dachner, Scisenoiden Brasiliens, 14, 1803 (Para). 

 Habitat. — Coasts of Guiana and Brazil. Our description of this spe- 

 cies is taken from specimens in the museum at Cambridge, fromvBahia. 

 i We "nave also examined the original type of Corvina trispinosain the 

 museum at Paris. It is doubtless true th at Bloch's type of Bodianus 

 'stellifer came from Surinam rather than from Africa. His figure rep- 

 I resents some species of Stelliferus, and Cuvier and Giinther are probably 

 right in identifying this figure with Corvina trispinosa. Still this iden- 

 - tification is not free from doubt, and it may be better to call the species 

 /O^j' Stelliferus trispiiiosus. 



53. STELLIFERUS LANCEOLATUS. 



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Homoprion lanceolaius Holbrook, Ichtkyol. S. Carolina, ed. 1, 168, plate 23, 1856 

 (Port Royal Sound). Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, 11, 1859 (Saint 

 Joseph's Island, Texas). 



Scimna lanceolata Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 289, I860 (copied). Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., 1882, 605 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 

 Fisb. North Am., 931, 1883. 



Stelliferus lanceolaius Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 113 (Saint John's River 

 Florida). Bean, Iuternat. Fishery Exhib. Berlin, 55, 1883 (Matanzas River 

 Inlet, Florida). 



Scicena stellifera Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North America, 569, 1883 (Pensacola). 



Habitat — South Atlantic and Gnlf Coast of the United States, 

 Charleston to Texas. 



This small fish is rather rare on our coast, the specimens seen by us 

 being few and all from rather deep water ; the one here described was 

 obtained at Charleston by Dr. Gilbert. 



54. STELLIFERUS ERICYMBA. 



Scicena ericymba Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish. Com., 1881, 311 (Bay of Pan- 

 ama). 



Habitat. — Pacific coast of tropical America; Panama. 



This small species is rather common about Panama. The cavernous 

 character of the head is more marked in this species than in any other. 



