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55. STELLIFERUS NASO. 



Stelliferw riaso Jordan, MSS. 



Habitat. — Coast of Brazil. 



This species is represented in the museum at Cambridge by many 

 young specimens from Cachiara, the longest about 4 inches in length. 

 The label of the bottle, in Dr. Steindachner's handwriting, indicates 

 that he has regarded it as a species distinct from S. micro})*, although 

 he has published no description of the species. 



56. STELLIFERUS MICROPS. 



Corvina stellifera Glinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., ii, 293, I860 (West Indies). (Not 



Bodiauus stelUfer Bloch.) 

 Cortina microps Steiudaeliuer, Ichthyol. Not., i, G, plate ii, fig. 1, 1864 (Guiana). 



Habitat. — Coast of Brazil and Guiana. 



The specimeus of this species (4581, M. C. Z.) examined by us, were 

 collected at Para by Dr. Steiudachuer. The largest is 3 J inches in length. 



Genus XII.— SCI^NA. 



Sciaena part Artedi, Genera Piscinm, 1738. (Includes umbra and cirrosa.) 



Sciaena Linnseus, Systema Naturae, ed. x, 289, 1758 (umbra; cirrosa). 



Johnius Bloch, Ichthyol ogia, x, 107, 1793 (carutta, Ac, later restricted by Gill to 



Johnius carutta). 

 Sciaena Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. i, 297, 1817 (restricted to Sciaena umbra, a Linnrean 



species, and to Scicena aquila, a nou-Linineau one) (not of Eegne Animal, ed. 



ii, which is Pseudosciama). 

 Bola Francis Hamilton, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822 (coitor chaptis, &c). 

 Sciaena Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. ii. 1829 (''.umbra " = aquila ; and of all subsequent 



authors except Bleeker; not of Linnaeus, nor of Artedi, to both of whom 



Sciama aquila was unknown ; not of the first edition of the Regne Animal). 

 Corvina Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. ii, 1829 (nigra = umbra). 

 Cheilotrema Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Fische, 1845, 13 (fasciatum). 

 Rhino-scion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 85 (saturnux). 

 Fseudosciaena Bleeker, Nederland. Tydsskr. f. Dierkuude, i, 1863 (aquila). 

 Sciaenops Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 30 (ocellata). 

 Ophioscion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 164 (typicm). 

 Callaus Jordan, subgenus novum (deHciosus). 



Type: Scicena umbra Linnseus. 



We are compelled to place in a single genus the great bulk of those 

 Sfiiamidce which have short gill-rakers, inferior mouth, and no barbels 

 on the lower jaw. In spite of the marked differences between the ex- 

 tremes of the series, the intergradation in characters is so perfect that 

 we are unable to draw any sharp distinctive lines among them. This 

 is especially true when the Asiatic species, forming the groups called 

 BoJa and Johnius, are taken into account. It is also true that one of 

 the species of Bairdiella (chrys'oleuca) is very close to some of the mem- 

 bers of the present group. In this case, however, there is really one 



