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with a black margin. Gill rakers 4; air bladder long, pointed, with a 

 foramen. (Putnam.) Length 6 inches. Gulf of Mexico; recorded from 

 Key West, Florida; not seen by us. (Named for Dr. John Edwards Hoi- 

 brook, the distinguished ichthyologist of Charleston.) 



lOphidion josephi, GIBARD, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 29, 1859, St. Joseph Island, 

 Texas; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis 793, 1883; quite as likely to be Rissola margi- 

 nata. 



Ophidium holbrooki, PUTNAM, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist. 1874, 342, Key West, Florida ; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 793, 1883. 



2857. OPHIDION GRAELLSI, Poey. 



Head 5f in body ; depth 10; eye 3 in head; pectoral 2f; ventral scarcely 

 as long as head. Body elongate, compressed ; mouth large, the maxillary 

 reaching to posterior margin of pupil; small teeth on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; eye very large, greater than length of snout; interorbital space 

 | of eye, a sharp ridge along its middle to tip of snout, where it ends in a 

 sharp spine; opercles unarmed; about 6 gill rakers developed on lower 

 part of gill arch, apparently none above; pseudobranchia? small, if pres- 

 ent. Air bladder, injured in specimen examined, apparently lanceolate; 

 dorsal and anal low, confluent with caudal, which ends in a point; pec- 

 torals small, their ends scarcely reaching midway from their base to front 

 of anal; ventrals with 2 filamentous rays, the outer scarcely as long as 

 head, the inner as long. Color in spirits, reddish brown, with silvery 

 reflections on sides ; head silvery, upper part of eye black ; fins the color of 

 the body, with no dark edgings. Coasts of Cuba; rare. Here described 

 from a specimen from Havana, Cuba, 2 inches in length, sent by Pro- 

 fessor Poey. Poey has also sent a drawing of his original type, a much 

 larger specimen, which he describes as follows : 



Head 5^; depth 8; snout rounded; eye large, 4 in head; maxillary 

 reaching posterior border of eye ; teeth small, slender, with a villiform 

 band behind them; teeth on vomer and palatines; scales small; head 

 scaly, except on snout; lateral line high ; branchiostegalsT; dorsal begin- 

 ning over second third of pectoral, joining anal behind ; about 100 rays in 

 each fin; vent a little behind first third of length. Yellowish brown, sil- 

 very on side of head; no black on fins. Air bladder distinct: no pyloric 

 caeca. Intestine with 2 short turns. Cuba. (Poey.) Air bladder, gill 

 rakers, and ventral not described. Length 230 mm. Rare; not reaching 

 a foot in length. (Named for Mariano de la P. Graells, director of the 

 Botanic Garden at Madrid, "conime te"moignage de mon estime pour ses 

 travaux scientifiques, et ponr la zele qu'il de"ploit . . . pour Pacqui- 

 sition des objets et 1'acclimatation des especes.") 



Ophidian graettsi, POEY, Memorias, n, 425, 1860, Havana (Coll. Poey) ; POEY, Synopsis, 402, 

 1867. 



948. CHILARA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Chilara, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fish. K and M. A., 482, 1896 (taylori). 



This genus contains a single robust species which differs from Ophidion only 

 in the presence of a stout concealed spine at tip of opercle ; the air bladder 



