Common Pompano 



clam-bait, and Mr. Silas Stearns says they are sometimes taken 

 on the hook about Pensacola. 



Head 4; depth 2\ to 2f; eye 4^; snout 4^; D. VI-I, 25; 

 A. II-I, 23; ventrals 2\. Body oblong, compressed, rather robust, 

 the greatest thickness 3 in depth; snout from mouth to hori- 

 zontal from upper edge of eye nearly vertical, somewhat bluntly 

 rounded; profile from upper edge of snout to procumbent spine 

 evenly convex; mouth nearly horizontal, maxillary reaching middle 

 of eye, its length 2% in head; no teeth in adult; ventrals reach- 

 ing f distance to vent, about 4- length of pectoral; dorsal and 

 anal fins falcate, anterior rays nearly reaching middle of fins when 

 depressed; dorsal lobe 4^, anal 5^- in body. Colour, bluish above, 

 silvery or slightly golden below; pectoral and anal light orange, 

 shaded with bluish; caudal and upper portion of caudal peduncle 

 with bluish reflections; breast more or less yellowish; top of 

 head bluish. 



Trachinotus palorna is an unimportant species, known only 

 from Cape San Lucas, Mazatlan, and San Juan Lagoon. It reaches 

 a length of a foot. As a food-fish it is not distinguished by 

 the Mexican fishermen from other species of the genus. It 

 closely resembles the common pompano, but has the head rather 

 larger, it being j\ to j\ in length instead of 4. 



Trachinotus cayennensis is another rare species, known only 

 from a single specimen obtained at Cayenne. It is close to T. 

 falcatus, but has more numerous fin-rays, D. V-I, 27; A. II-I, 26. 



Recently a new genus and species of this family was de- 

 scribed from the Revillagigedo Islands by Jordan and McGregor 

 as Zalocys stilbe. The genus is close to Trachinotus. The single 

 specimen known is 16 inches long. 



