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more elongate than in other species; profile low, little con- 

 vex ; eye small, 2£ in snout, 7 in head ; snout long, 3 in head ; 

 mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching front of eye, 

 3 in head; second dorsal spine If in head; anterior soft 

 rays of dorsal almost twice as long as the posterior ones,, 

 caudal with an /-shaped margin ; ventrals 1J in pectorals; 

 pectorals If in head. Color bluish on sides and back, silvery 

 below, without stripes or bands. Head 3£ in length ; depth 

 4|. D. X-1, 22 to 24 ; A. I, 7 ; scales 5-53-13 . . Elongatus, 103. 

 Tck. Upper lobe of caudal not longer than lower ; scales rather 

 large, 15 to 18 in an oblique series from vent upward and 

 forward to lateral line ; axillary scale not one-fourth length 

 of pectoral; snout distinctly projecting beyond mouth, 3£ in 

 head ; gill-rakers larger than in other species, the longest 

 about i length of pupil, the number X + 7; lower pharyngeal 

 bones broad, most of the teeth developed as coarse molars, 

 only those along the posterior margin conical; maxillary 

 reaching past front of orbit, 3J in head ; outer teeth of upper 

 jaw scarcely enlarge ;1 ; longest dorsal spines reaching past 

 front of soft dorsal, the free margin of the fin concave ; cau- 

 dal rather deeply lunate, the lower lobe rounded, the upper 

 pointed; ventrals 1.3 in pectorals, which are 1J in head. 

 Color silvery gray above, with bluish and bronze reflections, 

 immaculate ; a dark-bronze shade along sides on level of 

 pectorals, extending to tail and along cheeks ; belly below 

 this abruptly white ; dorsals light brown, spinous dorsal 

 black at lip, the base narrowly white ; caudal pale, its tip 

 usually black ; inner lining of pectoral and ventrals blackish ; 

 gill cavity pale. Head 3^ in length; depth 4f. D. X-I, 23 

 to 25; A. I, 7 ; scales 6-53 (pores)-12 Littoralis, 104, 



94. MENTICIRRHUS OPHICEPHALUS. 



Umbrina ophicephalus Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fish, 45, 1842(Coquimbo, Chili). Giin- 



ther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 277, 1860 (copied). 

 Cirrimens ophicephalua Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 17, 1862. 



Habitat. — Coast of Chili and Peru. 



This singular species is represented by numerous specimens large and 

 small in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. These are from Caldera, 

 Chili (8603, M. C. Z.), and from Callao, Peru. It seems to us that the 

 name Cirrimens proposed for this species can be used for a subgenus 

 only. 



95. MENTICIRRHUS SIMUS. 



Menticirrhus nasus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Pish Com., 1882,107 and 111 (Ma- 

 zatlan and Panama) (not Umbrina nasus Guuther). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North 

 America, 94, 1885 (name only). 



Menticirrhus sim us Jordan & Eigenmaun, sp. nov. 



Habitat. — Pacific coast of tropical America ; Mazatlan to Panama. 



This species is known to us from the specimeus collected by Dr. C. H. 

 Gilbert at Mazatlan and Panama. 



It was at first identified somewhat doubtfully with Menticirrhus nasus 

 by Jordan and Gilbert. The examination of the original type of Um< 



