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96. MENTICIRRHUS NASUS. 



Umbrina nasus Giiuther, Fishes Central America, 387 and 426, 1869 (Panama). Jor- 

 dan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, 289 (Central America). 



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



This species is known to ns from Dr. Giinther's original type. No 

 others have since been taken, if, as we suppose, our Menticirrhus simus 

 is really a distinct species. 



97. MENTICIRRHUS AGASSIZI. 



Menticirrhus agassizi Jordan, sp. nov. (Caldera). 



Habitat. —Coast of Chili. 



This species is known from a single specimen, G£ inches long, in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, from Caldera, Chili. It was found 

 mixed with specimens of Menticirrhus ophicephalus, in bottle 8603. 



This species is named in honor of Professor Louis Agassiz. 



98. MENTICIRRHUS PANAMENSIS. 



Umbrina panamensis Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitr., iv, 9, 1875 (Panama). 

 Menticirrhus panamensis Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1882, 107 (Mazatlan); 

 1. c, 111 (Panama). Jordan, Cat. Fish. North America, 94, 1885 (name only). 



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

 This species is known to us from specimens taken by Dr. Gilbert at 

 Panama and Mazatlan. 



99. MENTICIRRHUS MARTINICENSIS. 



Umbrina martinicensis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 186, 1830 (Martinique). Storer, 

 • Syn. Fish. North Am., 323, 1846 (copied). Giiuther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 



277, 1860 (copied). Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 539 (note on type of 



Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Umbrina gracilis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 189, 1830 (Brazil). Giinther, Cat. 



Fish. Brit, Mus., ii, 277, 1860 (copied). Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 



539 (note on type of Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Umbrina arenataCuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 190 (Brazil). Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, 



Fishes, 44, 1842 (Bahia Blauca ; Maldonado). Giiuther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., ii, 276, 1860 (Jamaica). 

 Umbrina phahvna Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, ix, 20, 1869 (Santos, Brazil). 

 Umbrina januaria Steindachner, Ichthyol. Beitr., v, 122, 1876 (Rio Janeiro). 



Habitat. — West Indies to Patagonia. 



We have examined the types of Umbrina martinicensis and U. gracilis 

 in the museum at Paris. We have also examined numerous specimens 

 in the museum at Cambridge, apparently identical with these, from Rio 

 Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Victoria, Bahia, and Montevideo. The 

 species seems to be as common in South America as its analogue M. 

 americanus is in ISTorth America. The two are exceedingly alike, and 

 martinicensis is probably a geographical variety of the other, distin- 

 guished perhaps by a slightly smaller number of rays in the dorsal fin. 



